There are developments around the country that have deed restrictions. Those deed restrictions dictate whether you can park cars in your driveway or hang clothes outside on a clothes line. They mandate the length of your grass, and even what colors you may use to paint the trim.

Campgrounds are the same way. The owner (and the clientele) determine what they will or will not allow, and they then enforce the rules, sometimes not equitably.

If we use a campground we tend to prefer one that does maintain a certain level of quality. We have been in campgrounds that let "guests" in without restriction and find it is not a lot of fun to be stuck next to an 18 foot camper with about 12 beer drinking folks and their undisciplined kids. We prefer to not be in campgrounds where most of the campers in there are so old or poorly maintained that they look like they would fall apart if you moved them. That is our choice.

I hope places like Buckhorn keep letting us in although we passed the 10 year mark, because that is the type of campground we like. If they don't we will try to find the next best thing. Wal-Mart.