Who draws an RV park map, and what does it need to show?
A park map is the first thing a guest is handed at check in and the last thing they look at before they book. A bad one costs the park both ways.
SHORT ANSWER
An RV park map is drawn from your layout by someone who draws park maps, from a site list and an aerial photo or plat you send. It shows every site by number and type, the lengths and hookups, every building and road, which sites are pull-through, and a legend a guest can read at the gate. The same drawing goes on the website's sites page, on the check-in counter, and in the guest packet. We draw them ourselves, and our sister company RV Park Map draws printed guides for parks on their own.
What the map has to show
Every site by number, with its type, length, and hookups. Pull-throughs marked. Every building, every road, the bathhouse, the dump station, the office. Which sites are shaded and which face the water. A legend. For the guest, the map answers the question that decides the booking: will my rig fit, and where. For the office, it ends the phone call that goes "is 14 the one by the dumpster," because everyone is looking at the same map with the same numbers and the same names for the same places.
Who draws them
We draw park maps ourselves, on paper and on screen, and draw the map into the website. Park maps are the business we started in. The map is included in our Listings + Reviews and Marketing bands. On its own, printed park maps and guest guides come from our sister company, RV Park Map, which draws them for parks and usually has local advertisers pay for the printing.
What you send
A site list by number and type, and an aerial photo or plat. A phone photo of the map on your office wall works. An old map, a sketch, or nothing at all works too. We draw the park and send it back with questions about the parts we cannot see, you mark it up, and we finish it.
Where the map goes
One drawing, produced for the sites page on the website, the check-in counter, the guest packet, and the booking system where the system allows it. On the website it sits where guests choose a site, marked with the things they ask about, with the booking button under it. The park maps page shows one we drew for Trinity View Resort in Idaho: sixty-nine numbered sites, cabins, tent camping, boondocking, a pool, a clubhouse, disc golf, and a legend, the same map on the website and printed for the guest packet.
Keeping it current
Parks change. New sites open, roads move, the pool gets a fence. You send the change and the map is redrawn on the site. Printed reorders carry the current version.
Related questions.
Can I get a park map without the website?
Yes. Park maps on their own are handled by RV Park Map, our sister company.
Can the map show which sites are pull-through?
Yes. Site types, lengths, hookups, and amenities are all on it, with a legend.
What if I only have a sketch?
Send the sketch and an aerial photo if you have one. We draw the park from them and send it back with questions about anything we cannot see.
Does the map connect to online booking?
Where your reservation system allows it, the map on the website is placed with the booking button under it so a guest picks the site and books it in one place.
Want this handled for your park?
We build and run websites for RV parks and campgrounds, and nothing else. Websites from $85 a month, SEO from $250.
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