Harvest Hosts is a membership that opens up a different kind of overnight stop. Instead of a parking lot or a campground, you park for the night at a winery, farm, brewery, distillery, museum, or golf course that welcomes self-contained RVs. We started using it for overnights between longer stops, and it has quickly become one of our favorite ways to break up a travel day.
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How it works
Harvest Hosts is a yearly membership rather than a per-night fee. Once you are a member, you browse host locations along your route, request a stay through the app, and park for the night once the host confirms. Stays are typically one night, the sites usually do not have hookups, so you need to be self-contained, and there is no set nightly charge. The understanding is simple and part of what makes it work: you support the host by buying something, a bottle of wine, a growler, farm eggs, a round of golf, which more than covers what a campground would have cost.
Why it fits how we travel
We run fully off-grid with no generator, so a night without hookups is no obstacle for us. That makes Harvest Hosts a natural fit: we can roll into a farm or a winery, level out, and run everything off our solar and battery setup just like we would boondocking anywhere else. The difference is that dinner comes with a view of the vineyard and a host who is glad we stopped. It breaks up the long haul days far better than another night in a parking lot, and we almost always come away having found something local we would have driven right past otherwise.
What to know before you join
A few honest notes. You do need a fully self-contained rig with your own bathroom and water, since most hosts have no facilities. Popular locations book up, especially in peak season, so it pays to request a stay a few days ahead rather than same-day. And the spirit of the program really does matter: show up, support the host, be a good guest, and it stays good for everyone.
Join Harvest Hosts
You can join Harvest Hosts through our referral link, which gets you a discount on the membership when you sign up. The rest of how we stay off-grid is in our boondocking setup.