DCHP-2

campsite DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1 n.

  a stopping place set aside for people to make camp in, usually operated and maintained by the government.

  • 1958  The camp-site was nothing more than a stopping-point on a rough trail bulldozed . . . through the bush.
  • 1963  The Trans-Canada campsites are established on a cost-sharing plan between the Federal and Provincial governments.

• 2

  any place where a camper pitches his tent, or parks his trailer.

  • 1963  He claimed to have had a second look Wednesday morning when the "object" made a brief appearance in front of the campsite.

• 3 n.

  the tents, buildings and general working area of a community (often temporary) of miners, fishermen, etc. in remote areas.

  See also: camp (def. 5)  

  • 1963  . . . the north breeds good fellowship nearly as well as it breeds black flies, and men in the campsites and new towns . . . get along better than their compatriots at the United Nations.
  • 1963  . . . the farmers began hauling wood from a backwoods campsite. . . .