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Old 05-28-2019, 03:09 PM   #2
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Almost all of your concern needs to be centered around "WHERE" you want to camp and the facilities available there. If you're looking at national parks, state parks and recreation areas, then you're going to find that most are not equipped for longer RV's. What's a "longer RV" ??? That depends on what's available "where you want to park". Some parks have sites to accommodate "longer RV's" and some simply don't. Then "compound the problem" at parks that don't use a reservation system and chances are you'll find the smallest "pop-up camper" in the longest site in the park and the longest RV trying to "squeeze into the smaller sites.... Why? Because most people don't think about "the other guy's requirements" and focus on "Hey, we'll have more room if we take that big site"..... Human nature? Yup, and it's not likely to change......

That said, we just returned from a 6000 mile trip down I-75 to Nashville, then west on I-40 to Las Vegas with stops in a number of places. We were triple towing with a total length of around 70'. We didn't have any problems in any campgrounds (we stayed in public and military parks). Only in Memphis were we unable to reserve a pull-through site. There were none in the campground, so there was no means to even try. Other than that "facility limitation" we were able to find "pull through sites" by calling ahead 2 or 3 hours from the destination. We stayed in full service campgrounds at casinos and KOA's on the trip heading west, we stayed at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas for 2 weeks and were in a 90' pull-through site" so we didn't need to unhook the two trailers from each other.

On the trip back east, we stayed in a KOA in Silt, CO, a private campground in Sterling, CO, a private campground in Lincoln, NE, a private campground in Davenport, IA, and the last night, in the Cracker Barrel parking lot in St Joseph, MI.

We didn't make any reservations except for the three 'long stays", one week in Memphis, one week in Williams, AZ and 2 weeks in Las Vegas. Otherwise, it was all "spur of the moment site locations".... We didn't have any problems finding sites, but few of them would qualify as "RV resorts". Most were pull through sites with a "commercial feel". They were quiet, comfortable, well worth the average $20 a night and long enough for "our 70 feet".....
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