Harvest Hosts is a membership program that lets RVers stay overnight at farms, wineries, breweries, and golf courses — and it's one of the best things that's happened to RV travel in years.
What Is Harvest Hosts?
Harvest Hosts is a membership network connecting self-contained RVers with unique host locations — farms, wineries, breweries, distilleries, golf courses, museums, and more. The arrangement is simple: you contact the host in advance, stay overnight in their parking area, and in return you support their business by buying their products or paying a green fee. There are no hookups, which means you need to be self-sufficient, but the trade-off is access to locations you'd never find in a traditional campground directory.
"It's the difference between staying somewhere and actually being somewhere."
The Kinds of Places You'll Find
The variety in the Harvest Hosts network is genuinely remarkable. One night you might be parked at a working buffalo farm in Arkansas, the next at a vineyard in the Texas Hill Country, the next at a golf club in Vermont. Some hosts are small family operations that have been doing this for years and have the process down to a science. Others are newer to it and still figuring out the logistics. Either way, the experience of waking up somewhere genuinely interesting — rather than in a row of identical RV sites — is hard to put a price on.
The Etiquette of Being a Good Guest
Harvest Hosts works because both sides hold up their end of the deal. As a guest, that means arriving when you said you would, leaving the space as you found it, and actually supporting the host's business — not just using their parking lot as a free campsite. Buy the wine. Play the golf. Pick up a jar of honey. The membership fee pays for itself quickly, but the real value is in the relationships and the stories. We've had conversations at Harvest Hosts stops that we still talk about years later.
Is It Worth It?
For full-time or frequent RVers, Harvest Hosts is an easy yes. The annual membership cost is modest, the network has grown to thousands of locations across North America, and the quality of the experiences it enables is consistently high. Even if you only use it a handful of times a year, the stops you make through Harvest Hosts tend to be the ones you remember most. It's the difference between staying somewhere and actually being somewhere.
