Big Changes To Harvest Host 

 

• Up to four extra nights are available at select Host locations (and ensure the location shown allows extra nights).

• Many Hosts now offer electric hookups.

• You can now filter the Harvest Hosts map to find Hosts that offer extra nights and electric and water hookups.

• Hosts may charge you a fee to stay extra nights or use electric hookups — these are just two of the ways you can support your Host’s business during your stay, they’ll keep 100% of the proceeds!

 

Holiday sale 

with 30% off first-year membership using code HOLIDAYHH (offer valid Nov 1, 2024 – Jan 1, 2025). 

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We have been members of Harvest Hosts for about 4 years.  It is an extremely worthwhile membership that we take advantage of many times each year. We have stayed at Harvest Host locations 3 times just this month.  For us and for our use, it definitely pays for itself each year. Over the years Harvest Hosts has grown and evolved. They have gone from offering the mere availability to stay overnight at a farm, winery, brewery and similar business, to now offering the ability to stay multiple nights at a myriad of businesses.  Some of these Harvest Hosts now even offer a range of hook-ups. These include electric, water and a combination of both.  

Harvest Hosts has gone from offering short overnight stopovers to offering actual destinations.

 

For example we recently stayed at Crystal Forest Museum and Gift Shop

Crystal in Holbrook, AZ,  just outside the south entrance of the Petrified Forest. By just outside I mean you park your RV about 100 feet from the entrance gate.  This specific Harvest Host offers 20 self contained or boondocking sites and 10-30 amp electric sites in a separated park across the street. They charge an additional $25 for the electric sites.  They offer up to a 5 night stay, but they can also extend this with approval from their management.  We did not know, when we booked this, that we could have stayed longer.  If we knew we would have stayed longer and gone up to the Painted Desert. 

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Another Harvest Host that we have stayed at a couple of times is Boxcar Brew Works in DuBois, PA. This is a great place. They are a brewery with a small restaurant in a railroad box car. They also have other stores on their property like an ice cream shop and brick oven pizza shop.  We didn’t get to enjoy the ice cream, but the pizza made a great dinner after a long day on the road. However what really sets this brewery apart from the rest is their herd of life size automated dinosaurs. The dinosaurs also make sounds. But, they turn them off at about 8PM so you can sleep well at night.  Oh they also have a small goat farm, maybe for the dinosaurs to feed on!  It is very entertaining. You will not resist taking a few videos.  This Harvest Host allows generator use and allows you to stay up to 4 nights. 

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Another of our favorites is the Norbrook Farm Brewery in Colebrook, CT.  We have stayed there countless times.  They offer a huge gravel parking area big enough for many of the largest RVs.  What makes this place so special is, of course, their large selection of craft brews. But that is just the beginning.  On Fridays and Saturdays they have live music and food trucks. In addition, they have one of the best disc golf courses in CT and miles of mountain bike trails.  They hosted an endurance trail race there this summer as well as a mountain bike race.  We stayed 2 nights so my wife could run the endurance race. Then we both helped out and I took photos of the athletes in action.  

 

So how has Harvest Hosts changed over the years and why is it better than ever?  Harvest Hosts has drastically increased the number of hosts available to its members. With this change they have added different membership levels. They now have 3 membership levels. 

 

• They have the Harvest Hosts Classic membership that includes the 5,295 Farms, Wineries, Breweries and Distilleries, and Attractions

• Next is the Harvest Hosts Classic + Boondockers Welcome with an additional 3,651 hosts

• Next is the Harvest Hosts All Access.  This adds 393 Golf Courses, Country Clubs, and Golf Resorts. 

 

Boondockers Welcome is a collection of 3,651 Community Hosts that are typically not a business.  They used to be their own entity but were bought by Harvest Hosts a few years ago. 

 

The Hosts included in your memberships offer their RV sites for free. They get paid only from the patronage which you offer their businesses. Some allow you to stay even when they are closed though. Some who offer this advantage have a donation box. One excellent example of this is Hanger 25 Air Museum in Big Springs TX.  We have stayed there at least 4 times and have never been there when they were open.  One day we will get to see the museum. This Harvest Host is located on an old air strip. It always offers us an incredible sunset. Hanger 25 Air Museum has been a Harvest Host "host" for over 10 years. They only offer one night and allow generators. 

However, Many Hosts now offer electric hookups and may offer up to four extra nights. Some may offer more with an earnest request. You can now filter the Harvest Hosts map to find Hosts that offer extra nights and electric and water hookups. Hosts may charge you a fee to stay extra nights or use electric hookups.  These are just two of the ways you can support your host’s business during your stay, they’ll keep 100% of the proceeds!

 

 

 

One of the attributes that Harvest Hosts has is its great, easy to use website.  

holiday sale, with 30% off first-year membership using code HOLIDAYHH (offer valid Nov 1, 2024 – Jan 1, 2025)