Where to eat, sorted by what campers ask
Open late, takes takeout orders, has a patio, worth the drive. The answers your host is already giving, written down properly.
For campgrounds, RV parks and marinas
Your Campers Ask You Everything. Get Paid for the Answers.
A local guide for your guests, built and monetized by CityKitsWe build a guide to the town around your campground. You hand it to your campers. We sell the advertising to the local businesses who want them, and you take a share.
The situation
Every Guest Arrives Knowing Nothing About the Area
They pull in on a Friday afternoon having driven four hours, and the questions start before the levelling blocks are down. Where can we eat tonight that is still open. Is there a grocery store closer than the one we passed. What do we do with the kids tomorrow if it rains. Where do we get propane, a haircut, a tow, a bandage.
So your camp host answers the same forty questions all season, off the top of their head, and the guest ends up somewhere adequate. Every one of those answers sends money into a local business. You send it for free, all year, and nobody has ever paid you a cent for the referral.
Meanwhile the businesses on the other end of those recommendations would very much like to reach a campground full of people who are about to spend money in their town this weekend.
What we build
A Real Guide to the Town Around You
Not a flyer rack. A proper local guide, built and maintained by our team, covering the place your guests are actually staying in.
What to do this weekend
A live events calendar for the town, so a rainy Saturday has an answer that is not the laundry room.
The practical list
Groceries, propane, hardware, urgent care, the vet, the laundromat, the nearest dump station that is not yours.
Trails, water and the reason they came
The outdoors around you, with the local detail a national app has never had.
It carries your park's name on it. To your guests it reads as something you provide, because it is.
How guests get it
You Hand It Over at Check In
A QR code on the check in desk
Or on the site marker, the bathhouse door, the welcome card. One scan, no app, no download.
A link in the booking confirmation
The email they already open, with the guide attached to it, days before they arrive.
The WiFi splash page
If you run guest WiFi, the guide is the first thing they see when they connect.
Something printed, if you want it
Plenty of guests still want paper. That is a printing decision, not a technical one.
Your host stops repeating themselves and starts pointing at a card.
The revenue
We Sell the Advertising. You Share the Revenue.
What you do
- Put the guide in front of your campers
- Tell us the businesses you already send people to
- Let us use your park's name on it
- Nothing else
What we do
- Build the guide and keep it current
- Find and sell the advertisers
- Handle billing, collections and bad debt
- Pay you your share
You do not buy a listing, pay a subscription or carry any cost. The money comes from the local businesses who want to reach your guests, and a share of it comes back to you. The split depends on the size of your park and the market around it, so we talk about it in real numbers before anyone signs anything.
CityKits is a young network. We are not going to quote you a monthly figure we cannot stand behind, and any number we do give you will come with how we got to it.
Why businesses pay
Your Guests Are the Audience Every Local Business Wants
A camper is a visitor with a short window and money already set aside for the trip. They will eat out several times, buy supplies, book something to do, and most of it happens within a few days and a few miles of your gate. They are not price shopping a subscription. They are deciding where to go tonight.
That is a far better prospect for a restaurant or an outfitter than a general audience spread across a county, and it is why the advertising on a campground guide is worth selling. Your park's visibility is the asset. We are turning it into a revenue line instead of leaving it on the table.
Fit
Who This Works For
Parks with real turnover
The more first time guests you see in a season, the more the guide is worth to everyone involved.
Somewhere with a town attached
The guide needs local businesses to write about and sell to. A park an hour from anywhere is a harder market and we will tell you so.
Hosts who already get asked
If your staff spend the season giving directions, that is the workload we are turning into an asset.
Marinas, resorts and hotels too
Any property with transient guests who arrive not knowing the area works the same way.
If your guests are mostly seasonal residents who know the town better than you do, this is worth less and we would rather say that now.
Next
Tell Us About Your Park
Send the name, the town and roughly how many sites. We will look at the businesses around you and tell you honestly whether a guide there would earn anything.