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Busskipper
Dec 19, 2020Explorer
F5Park wrote:
What is the ideal space size for a new RV park?
Greetings, I am in the design stage of building an RV park on 5 acres in Northern CA.
With all of the fires in the past couple years there is a tremendous need for RV parks.
This project is close to home for me, my in laws lost everything in the Paradise, CA fire.
This area I live in hosts long and short term travelers, RVs and 5th wheels.
I'm looking for input to help lay it out.
Who better to ask than those who would use it.
The dimensions of the park are 245'wide X 775'long
Thank you in advance.
Mission of the Park - IMHO is to make $ - minimum size would likely be something close to 60 x 40 - many think they should all be drive through - thinking you need to maximize your land use and keep the cost of the utilities as low as possible.
Couple of notes, pretty sure most of the residents will need to be Full time for you to pay for it - Next thing you need to keep in Mind are the Roads - they will also need to be considered. Then the Utilities
LOOK THIs OVER - ANSWERS THE QUESTION
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Set back - Office and Club house will all need to be included at some time.
Look to making this work with a U shaped road back ins on the outside and possibly double length Pull through in the middle - back ins in the front and Back.
Hope this is of some help,
I've done this and will send you a PM.
Best of Luck,
EDITS WILL ALSO HELP- :)
edit - Another good Link
2nd edit - https://www.recpro.org/assets/Library/Webinars/webinar_campgrounddesign.pdf
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