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RVcrazy
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Jun 30, 2013

National parks for long 5ers?

Where do you fit? In looking at various camping guides, it looks like we won't fit anywhere if we buy a 35' fiver... We would like to take advantage of the reduced rates, but it looks like options are limited. Any place you found that works for you?

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  • With our 40' motorhome we fit in Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Glacier, Zion, Bryce, Capitol Reef, Rocky Mountain, Badlands, Death Valley, Grand Canyon, Big Bend, Craters of the Moon, Black Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Guadalupe Mountains, Joshua Tree, Mesa Verde, Sleeping Bear Dunes, Canyonlands, Denali (Alaska), many forest service, COE, state parks, county and city parks. I'm sure I've forgotten some....
  • We've been all over the country and have seen HUGE TTs 5ers everywhere we've been no matter which campground. Have a good time and go where you want.
  • RVcrazy wrote:
    Where do you fit? In looking at various camping guides, it looks like we won't fit anywhere if we buy a 35' fiver... We would like to take advantage of the reduced rates, but it looks like options are limited. Any place you found that works for you?
    We have been ok, I see some only have 3 or 4 that you might fit in and once they are taken your toast.
  • Not sure where you're getting your information but my 34 footer has only ONCE found a national park campground that would not let us in due to length. That one place was Mt Rainier national park which limits length to 28 feet (for some reason) but not knowing this I took a tour of the entire campground, selected a site that left about 20 feet extra length and backed in. when I'd finished setting up and went to pay, I was told my trailer was too long and I'd have to leave. When I asked why they said it was not possible to get a trailer that long into the campground :H It wasn't hard getting in and it wasn't hard getting out so SOMEONE is nuts. Other than that one instance we've never had an issue camping at National Parks all over the nation. Where it's worked for us
    Yellowstone - Glacier - Grand Tetons - Olympic - Rockey Mountain - Grand Canyon - Smokey Mountain - Shenandoah - Acadia - Sand Dunes (Colorado) - Messa Verde - Zion - Flaming Gorge - a lot of others.

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