Water pressure fluctuates from 35 to 80 PSI depending on the park, and a surge at either end can damage equipment. Most RV travelers discover this the hard way. The ones who document it systematically start building a map of which parks are safe to hook up without a regulator.
The Operational Layer
This template is built around the recognition that RV travel is not leisure with a vehicle — it's property management on wheels. Each trip entry captures not just where you went, but the technical condition of where you stayed.
Water Pressure and Power Quality are the two fields most campground review apps ignore entirely. Both have direct consequences for onboard systems. Power Quality — recording whether the hookup is clean 30-amp, 50-amp with voltage fluctuations, or unreliable — determines whether you run sensitive appliances and whether you connect a surge protector before anything else. Over a season of travel, these fields build a site-level database that no published directory provides.
Direct TV Satellite elevation and azimuth readings are niche, but for full-timers running satellite TV, they eliminate the thirty-minute setup process at familiar parks. Return to a known location, enter the stored values, point the dish. Done.
Site Logistics
Hookups, Laundry, Cell Service Park, WiFi, and the rate structure — Daily, Weekly, Monthly — combine with Number of Nights and Total Cost Campground to produce the Campground Fee Per Night via a calculated field. That calculation runs automatically. A park offering a weekly rate that works out to $28 per night looks different from one charging $45 daily, and tracking both the nominal rate and the effective nightly cost over multiple stays reveals which pricing structures actually favour long-term travelers.
Boondocked flags trips where you're off-grid entirely — no hookups, no cost, different system demands. Over time, the ratio of boondocked to hooked-up nights tells you something about how you actually use your rig versus how you planned to.
Fuel and Propane Economics
Three fuel stops per trip — Station/Location, Gallons, Price per Gallon, Cost, and Mileage at each stop — give you the actual cost and consumption data for the route. The Total Daily Fuel calculation aggregates all three automatically. Mileage at each stop, compared to the trip's start and end odometer readings, identifies fuel efficiency by leg. Mountain grades and headwinds show up in the numbers.
The propane section — Facility Name, City/State, Gallons, Cost per Gallon, Total Cost — tracks refill economics separately from fuel. Propane cost per mile is a metric most RV budgets underestimate in the planning phase and only calculate after the fact. Tracking every fill over a season produces the real number.
In-Route Stops and In-Route Stop Photos document the journey between origin and destination. Cell Service En Route captures dead zones by route — information worth having before you make the same drive with navigation dependent on a data connection.