Only Premium Members will have access to Park Sites

To view a full video tutorial, please see our Park Sites Full Tutorial. 

 

In this article we will discuss the basics of Park Sites, and begin to familiarize you with the basics of accessing a specific Park Site in order to view a mobile home or RV park's Park Information. 

Overview

Park Sites is a map driven graphical way to view, manage, and track mobile home parks and RV parks throughout the United States. It replaces spreadsheets by displaying colored map pins on a Google Map.

Each map pin (referred to as a Park Site) represents a single mobile home or RV park, while the various colors of each Park Site represents the specific status of the park. Black map pins indicate that there is no information about the park, green pins indicate that there is data but no users have claimed the park using the My Parks module, blue indicates that the park has been claimed by a member in the My Parks module, and purple indicates that you have claimed the park in the My Parks module. 

By clicking on a Park Site, users can view the park's basic information in a slider that opens from the right side of the page. Within the slider, you have additional options to either view or edit the details of that specific Park Site. You can also choose to mark the site for later reference, which changes the map pin from its default color to yellow. By tracking mobile home parks and RV parks in this manner, we give our users a much more efficient, and multi-dimensional, method of managing and tracking mobile home park or RV park information. These are aspects traditional spreadsheets simply can't accomplish.      

Definitions

1. Park Site - A layer of data specific to the park's location which is managed exclusively by our system administrators, and contains information about a mobile home or RV park's city, county, state, and zip code.
   
2. Park Information - A layer of data that is specific to the park and managed by our users. Examples of information contained in this layer are a park's street address, phone number, website, Flood Plain status, Utilities & Streets information, number of mobile home or RV lots, amenities, and park contacts.  
   
3. Claimed - A Park Site status that is used to indicate if a park has a claimholder in the My Parks module. Each claimed park will have a blue map pin if another member has claimed the park, or it will be purple if you have claimed the park.  
   
4. Unclaimed - A Park Site status that is used to indicate that there is no claimholder for a specific park. Each unclaimed park will have a green map pin.
   
5. No Park Data - A Park Site status that is used to indicate that a Park Site has no Park Information. Each No Park Data park will have a black map pin until additional Park Information is provided. 
   
6. Marked - A Park Site status that is used when a user chooses to mark a Park Site for a reference. Each Marked Park Site will be represented by a yellow map pin while the Park Site is Marked.

Prerequisites

1. To begin using Park Sites you must be a Premium Member. 
   

Instructions

Park Sites Main Page

Park Sites Slider Elements

 

1. View Park Details - Clicking the View Park Details button opens a new browser tab that contains all the available details about that Park Site. This information includes various information such as Street Address, Park Phone, Utilities & Street details, lot details, and Park Contacts. 
   
2. Edit Park Details - When clicked, the Edit Park Details button opens a new browser tab that gives the user the ability to edit all the Park Information that is displayed in the View Park Details page. 
   
3. Mark This Park - Clicking this button changes the map pin from its original color to yellow. This helps to track which parks you may have reviewed or even physically contacted. You may choose to mark as many parks as you wish. You can also remove the yellow color from your marked pins by clicking the Clear All Marked button on the Park Sites main page or clicking the Unmark This Park button on the slider. 
   
4. View State Website - Clicking this button opens a new browser tab that displays the state website where the Park Site is located, and is useful to look up state regulations or information that is specific to the parks state.   
   
5. View County Website - Clicking this button opens a new browser tab that displays the county website where the Park Site resides. This helps users to investigate any county related information such as County Assessor's Property Tax Records or GIS websites when the county makes the information publicly available. 
   
6. Google Maps - Clicking the Google Maps button opens a new browser tab that displays the Park Site in Google Maps. This allows our members to have better access to tools that are specific to Google Maps when needed.  
   

Note - When a member, other than you has claimed a specific park, the Edit Park Details button will become disabled to prohibit other members from changing the Park Information. 

Note - While most counties in the United States do provide a website to the public, there are rare occasions that either the Park Site is located in a region of the country that does not have a county such as Alaska, or the county does not provide a public website. In those cases the View County Website button is disabled.

Basic Park Site Information

Below the slider's buttons, you can view some of the more basic information about the mobile home or RV park, as well as some demographic information from the city, town, or area where the Park Site is located. This information is provided to give quick reference to the Park Site you are viewing.

Basic Park Site Information

Note - The  demographic information located in the the Park's City Information section, of the slider, is obtained through a 3rd party and may slightly vary based on the 3rd party obtaining most recent U.S. Census Bureau data. 

Note - In the event users find someone has abused Park Sites, by entering purposefully fraudulent or damaging  information, they can use the Report Abuse link located at the top-right of the slider to create a Support Ticket with the Classification of "Site Abuse".