Campgrounds by state?

Not sure what type of GPS you have but at least for the Garmin units POI's will be listed from the one nearest your present location to the one farthest away.

I suspect there are ways you could go to the work of splitting a large full country file into smaller files by state but the individual points will always be listed nearest to farthest.

a miniscule size when on the GPS.

If you are looking for CG say north AL go into simulator mode, set your location in Huntsville or close to where you want to find a specific CG from there you can see the campgrounds from closest to furthest.

I don't think you can sort PI's.

I was hoping to use the POIs to plan a road trip. What you described makes it sound like that won't work. There should be some way with a comma delimited file to make a worksheet that could be sorted in various ways.

But thank you for the information.

Sallye

Maybe these will help you plan your trip. Look at the Good Sam Campground file and also the Passport America file. These can be sorted on state.

Most of your fellow contributors have given you pretty good information on using your GPS to find locations beginning at a specific point and radiating outward from that point. I am not sure which campground file you downloaded; however, I downloaded Campgrounds and RV Parks Combined (CSV), loaded the file into Excel and set things up so that using Excel one is able to sort the information by state or province. From there one can additionally expand the sort to levels in order of Latitude or Longitude.
This sorted file will in no way change the way your GPS works the file, but using your knowledge, it could help you by using coordinates and a map to determine locations along your way.
Another useful tool, if you have Street Atlas USA (I have 2015), is to load the CSV file into it, make it active, then it will display on the map all of the campground locations. That way you can see exactly where each campground is located along your proposed route.

Most current Garmin GPS units provide much better search functions than a state filter.

My 760 Dizel provides the following search functions:
Current Location
Along Active Route
Destination
Different City
Recent Destination

In trip planning the ones I find most useful are Along Active Route and Destination.

I use "Along Active Route" to get there and then "Destination" to find the best campsite for an extended stay.

With those functions and "Custom Avoidances", the route can be shaped almost any way you desire, and you can find the best campground at your destination.

Just think about it a little. Limiting your search to a state would not be very helpful if your route was on I-26 in North Carolina, showing campgrounds on US 17 (400 miles away) is unlikely to produce the results you desire.

Good Luck!
Wil

Welcome to the site.

We usually recommend the following.

There is a "Learn" button in the upper right of this page next to "red light cameras" that takes you to a Getting Started page. It is worthwhile visiting this page.

To make navigation easy, most browsers provide the following option. When you want to follow a link - but still keep your current page open - you can hold down the "Ctrl" key as you left-click on a link. That action will open a new "Tab" in your browser up on the "Tab" bar. When you then left-click on that new "Tab", you will follow the link - leaving the "Tab" you are now reading open and available to click on and return here.

So, using the "Learn" link, you might try the "Ctrl" - left-click sequence and then return here. You can return by either "X-ing" out of the "Getting Started" page (using the "X" on the "Tab" itself) or just left-clicking on the "Tab" for the page you are on right now.

Note that the Learn Button will give you access to two valuable reference pages -
the "Index" to all of the FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) and the Glossary of Terms and Links.

Since you are new here, I encourage you to go through a couple of the Tutorials.

The first link makes sure the settings on your computer are such that you can do more advanced POI loading.
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/30393

The next link helps you make a backup of your GPS by attaching it to your computer. (NEVER do anything to your GPS until you have a backup). It also assures that you put your (newer) unit into a state where you can see all of the folders there.
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/30394

Again - welcome.

Assuming that you have not yet gotten (or been able to implement) info that will let you plan your trip, maybe you could give us more info on what you goals are.

BUT REGARDLESS - I think you ought to look at Extra POI Editor (EPE) because it should may allow you to do some of what you have indicated you want.

Downloading and Installing EPE
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/38068

Configuring EPE
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/33782

Once you get EPE downloaded, installed and configured, then you can have EPE open the Campgrounds file and ask it to show all the entries on a map (and it will take a while so be patient).

Then you can look at the map in areas of interest to you.