Route 66 RV Park based outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico is looking for tiny house people who are building their house or looking for somewhere to park their home. Once the shell is done you can stay in them at the RV Park and work on them with out issues.
Here is what they have to say about the RV Park:
Enjoy the views of the Santa Fe Mountains and the small town atmosphere of Edgewood. Several places to eat including Subway, Sonic, Dominoes, Dairy Queen, and McDonald’s along with some family owned restaurants. We have a large Wal-Mart, Walgreens, New Tractor Supply and a very large Smith’s Grocery Store.
We love critters. We do have plenty of walking area for your pets and even a place for the occasional overnight horses.
We offer a day, a week and or extended stay rates. Visit their website for all the details: http://www.route66rvparkedgewood.com/
Park Office #505-281-0893
Park Manager is Bo and Robin
Mobile # 505-358-9279
Park email is rt66rvpark1981@gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.route66rvparkedgewood.com/
Directions to the Park: About 24 miles east of Albuquerque, exit #187, in Edgewood. Go south about 1/4 mile to stop light which is Old 66 OR Highway 333, turn left (east) and go about 1/2 mile to park.
How much to advertise?
That’s unfortunate. We just drove by it with our tiny house yesterday! Oh well, next time.
This is great. If I were to have one of these homes I’d be interested in it. Nice to see owners of an RV park with an open and accepting friendly attitude. Refreshing from that stodgy, opinionated and judgemental “can’t do this, can’t have that” so pervasive in this society. I’m glad to see this wee life movement growing. Many blessings.
This is in Santa Fe County about 15 miles from my mountain acreage. Lots to do in the area for outdoor people. If you later want to buy land, Torrance County to the south is a bit easier as far as regulations and pricing go. Santa Fe County is highly regulated, and enforces tear downs if not permitted. Worth the effort.
That’s a great move in the right direction! Let’s hope this catches on.
I am the manager of Pleasant Lake Campground in Pennellville, NY and have been following this blog and the tiny house movement for years. We’d love to open up the park to the tiny house community! It seems the RVs we rent to get bigger and bigger every year and it’s nice to see people creating beautiful, sustainable homes with practicality and efficiency in mind. If any of you need a place to stay in the Northeast, look us up! We offer nightly, weekly, monthly, and seasonal rates.
Hey there! I located the website for your campground and posted it along with a reference back to this article on our FB page. We’d love to take advantage of the offer for tiny house visiting once we’re on the road, but in the meantime I hope some others pick up on the referral and make a stop up there. Thanks for the willingness to welcome the tiny house community, and we’ll be sure to add your site to our blog as well. Have a great day! -Meg & Brandy at TinyHouse43
Register at Tiny House Community map… it is free.
http://www.tinyhousecommunity.com/map/communities/
Hi, I am the manager of Beach RV park in Santa Cruz Ca. I would like to get some in here on an extended stay basis. I am very interested in the tiny house movement, wondering if well insulated ones would be livable year round in the northeast. I was born and spent most of my life in upstate NY (Utica area).
Where is Pennellville, and do you offer year round rates? What are the rates anyway? We charge $725 per Mo here, includes all utilities and cable TV. This is a very high cost of housing area.
I think tiny homes are the future of housing due to the decline of the US economy.—–Doug
Pennellville is about 40 minutes west of Utica near Syracuse, NY. We offer sites at $38/night, $180/week, and $480/month and that includes electric, water, sewer and Wi-Fi on most sites. We also have tent (no hookups) and water/electric only sites. There’s a waiting list for next seasonal sites right now but I’d be happy share that information as well. If you’d like to see pictures and get a better feel for the community here check out pleasantlakecamprgroundinc.com or our tumblr at pleasantlakecampground.tumblr.com.
Doug, most mobile tiny homes have excellent insulation simply because they are built like regular houses and have thicker stud built walls just like regular houses. If you use the spray foam insulation you can get R-values around 20 in the walls from what I remember learning at a building workshop. There are several folks who’ve built or bought Tumbleweed houses living in Alaska year round right now as a matter of fact that have the spray foam interiors. There’s also a great way to add even more insulation by adding a sheet of foam board between the sheathing and siding of the house. Since we plan to travel all over the country and maybe into Canada we plan to use that method to make sure we can weather just about anything g Mother Nature can throw at us temperature wise at least. I definitely think you could build a tiny house to spend winters in NY with proper planning. 🙂
Doug please send me your park address.
I have family in Santa Cruz and have been
Looking for a place to park a park model
On a full time basis. I am in San Carlos
So I would love to have a look.
Thanks for your interest in the tiny house
Movement. Shawn
skConerlyLewis@mail.com
Hi Doug…I see your email is 3 years old, but I am hoping you get this. I am assuming that you are no longer owner of Beach RV in Santa Cruz? I called them about bringing my tiny home there long term and was told they don’t take tiny homes. So from that I had to assume you are no longer there.
Just reaching out to make sure, in case I made a mistake. If whomever reads this would reply to my email address I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you,
Suzanna
Hats off to Route 66 RV Park. We stayed there years ago with our fifthwheel. I’m so glad to see RV parks welcoming tiny houses – let’s hope many more follow their lead!
If it is okay, I am going to pin this onto my tiny house board and also post to facebook. I think it is important to support those who support us.
Life on the road, the original tiny house movement.
In Ancient Central Asia and across the Ancient World there were yearly, ad hoc formed ‘cities’ of traders, existing only for a month or so. People traveled with tents, carts, and even whole large yurts on huge rolling platforms. There are descriptions of two story tents with a wooden second floor put together in such a way that it could quickly be dismantled. They would set up shop for the month, trade what they could, and then all go back on the road, leaving nothing but grass and wind.
Wally Byam, the creator of the Airstream, envisioned a time when modern people could do the same. Travel and form temporary cities, work on local infrastructure, provide food, etc., and then move on. He thought of it as a solution to our boom and bust economy where people set down roots only to find that there wasn’t enough work over time to make it worthwhile.
The closest thing we have in America is the annual gathering at Quartzite of 2,000 vendors during January and February.
@DAVID REMUS
The “burning man” festival is the clearest example of what comes to my mind for temporary cities. i have never been there, however. Its my understanding that the people who run burning man make sure that nothing is left after the event is over.
I enjoyed your History lesson so much David, thank you! It makes so much since to me, that we go back to this way of life, in these harsh times we all face. It is awesome to read posts, and have that “AH HA Moment” at the same time. Thanks again for the fun walk through our history, and hopefully what we can incorporate into our future.
I think many Americans have some experience in their backgrounds that relate to a type of migratory movement or traveling mode of life.
I hitchhiked all over and traveled with a carnival in very rudimentary style as a kid and then moved up to travelling with concert tours and large national convention tours.
There is also the military field experience of moving everything needed including water, power and food for extended periods.
It just all equates into the knowledge necessary for having just enough and not too much to expedite yourself onward. Some adapt easily and learn the ropes and others never do grasp the basic skills or desire to travel light.
At what price? If you want a tiny home, it is much more cost efficient to own your own piece of land. Parking full time in a “mobile home park” is probably almost as much as living in a regular trailer park and in my area, that’s approaching $500 a month and you have to pay extra for additional people AND pets. If you want to live a nomadic life, then there is no need for a permanent parking space because your tiny home is on a trailer. I need the stability of a foundation and permanent plumbing.
This 66RV Park charges $310 plus the cost of electricity that you use. (according to their website)
Hi Beverly,
My background and history is with extra large luxury housing but I am interested in tiny buildings. I have a site where I am developing experimental small buildings (not on wheels) that probably has the type of housing that you describe. Please have a look at
http://www.easybuildingplans.com
or
http://www.designevelope.wordpress.com
That’s per month …
I don’t see how any DMV registered Tiny House could legally be refused by any RV park. They are after all classified as recreational vehicles. However I do think that what is progressive about this situation is that Route 66 RV Park is actively recruiting Tiny Houses. As Chris the manager of Pleasant Lake Campground in Pennellville, NY commented RV’s are getting bigger and bigger every year. This seems counterintuitive to the notion of living in recreational vehicle. The idea of having an RV campground exclusively rented by Tiny Homes goes a long way to legitimizing the respectability that Tiny Home owners have been demanding all along, that size does not make a home. Perhaps finally having a community of Tiny Homes instead of traditional RV’s next door will open up the eyes of community leaders and lawmakers that a tiny house in a traditional neighborhood is not a liability but an asset. That is after all what we want, right; to be able to sit one on our city lot next to that old Victorian and have a single person flinch?
Anthony
Many RV parks have restrictions regarding what types of RV’s can stay there. A lot of parks, especially the “Resort” style, limit the age that can stay, typically less than 10 years old. The really Hoity Toity locations will only allow Class A (Bus Style) RV’s of a certain age. We have been turned away with a travel trailer.
Most parks are privately owned and can set any rules that they want regardless of whether or not it is legal to drive or pull down the road.
We own a 1985 Holiday Rambler and as you mentioned, have been turned down by many RV parks even though our girl is in good shape. Now, we are looking into building our own tiny home, and most rv parks have regulations about no repairs of any type, especially building something on the property. So this is really refreshing to see as I think if more people were doing this, they could help others out, scout out materials that are recycled, or abandoned and therefore cleaning up the environment. Add in a community garden… the possibilities are endless. We are heading this way in the next month, so who knows. 🙂 I have a lot of ideas, and plan to start writing my book on this lifestyle and movement. We are currently in the planning and dreaming stage while I finish my degree in horticulture.
very cool! Hope more jump on this bandwagon. : )
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Route 66 RV park is thinking outside the box! Good move!
Do they have to be trailers? or can they be ground-bound or Tiny House on temporary foundation?
With what you’re charging for a spot, I’d call this the first reason NOT to downsize. My mortgage payment is only $2 more than what your parking spot costs and I’ve got 5 green acres with real trees (that I’m always mowing). Having lived in AZ, I can find the beauty in what you offer, but if you’re an example of what typical space rentals go for, this time I’m surprised. I love it that you’re offering spaces to Tiny Homes, but I only see your place as a short term solution.
It’s a really good idea. I was wondering whether there was going to be gardening area? It’s all kind of pointless if you’re not going to try to live more self-sufficiently and keep costs down. It would be really cool of someone could develop a community from scratch that would encourage solar and wind power, gardening and community chickens. Anything is possible.