Dale Hartman

Dale has lived on the road full-time since 2014, when he sold the house in Boise and moved into a 34-foot fifth wheel with his wife and a stubborn beagle named Otis. In the years since, he's parked at more than 400 campgrounds across 41 states — from boondocking sites with no hookups to luxury resorts with concrete pads and pickleball courts.

Before the RV life, Dale spent two seasons as a campground host in Idaho's Sawtooth National Recreation Area, which is where he learned the difference between a park that looks good in photos and one that actually works when you're backing in at dusk after a 300-mile day.

For RV Parks Guide, Dale focuses on individual park reviews: site sizes, hookup reliability, road access for big rigs, cell signal, and the small frustrations that never show up on a reservation page. If a review says the dump station backs up on Sunday mornings, it's because he was in that line.