Some questions on National Park sites
My DW and I would like to start full-timing in the future. We expect to do lots of hiking during the day and some work during the evening/night. We MUCH prefer to camp in less open spaces that feature...
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Just to provide a little more help for you, I went on "recreation.gov" and looked up "Glacier National Park" and "St. Mary's Campground" in Montana. I found a number of sites that said the maximum length RV was 35 feet, but the overall driveway length was considerably more. Just as one example, here are the data for the first site I clicked on in the "site list"--Site C154:
•Site Type: STANDARD NONELECTRIC
•Site Reserve Type: Site-Specific
•Site Access: Drive-In
•Type of Use: Overnight
•Max Num of People: 8
•Pets Allowed: Domestic
•Max Num of Vehicles: 2
•Driveway Surface: Gravel
•Driveway Entry: Pull-Through
•Driveway Length: 55
•Max Vehicle Length: 35
•Site Length: 22
•Site Width: 40
•Capacity/Size Rating: Single
•Fire Pit: Y
The site listing has two photos attached and looks to have vegetation between it and the sites on both sides, plus some shade from trees. Combined with the 40-foot site width, the vegetation should provide some privacy. And this site has a 55-foot long driveway, i.e., it can easily accommodate a 30-foot fifth wheel trailer and a 3/4-ton pickup.
You can do this same search yourself in a matter of minutes for any US National Park you are interested in visiting.
We have a 21'9" travel trailer and have camped in it for a total of 7 months over the past 2.5 years. It got very small in the latter stages of our 3-month trip to Alaska in 2013, so we are currently selling it and ordering a 27-foot fifth wheel. We limited the length of the fifth wheel so that the total length of our truck and new trailer would be little more than with our current trailer. That way we can still fit into most of the shorter (40-foot driveway length), back-in RV sites that we have preferred with our current trailer.
BTW, back-in sites sometimes have more privacy than pull-thrus. That's why most long-term and seasonal residents of many of the RV parks we have visited fill up all the back-in spaces first. So, if you have to have maximum privacy, you want to buy an RV that you can easily back into RV spaces.
•Site Type: STANDARD NONELECTRIC
•Site Reserve Type: Site-Specific
•Site Access: Drive-In
•Type of Use: Overnight
•Max Num of People: 8
•Pets Allowed: Domestic
•Max Num of Vehicles: 2
•Driveway Surface: Gravel
•Driveway Entry: Pull-Through
•Driveway Length: 55
•Max Vehicle Length: 35
•Site Length: 22
•Site Width: 40
•Capacity/Size Rating: Single
•Fire Pit: Y
The site listing has two photos attached and looks to have vegetation between it and the sites on both sides, plus some shade from trees. Combined with the 40-foot site width, the vegetation should provide some privacy. And this site has a 55-foot long driveway, i.e., it can easily accommodate a 30-foot fifth wheel trailer and a 3/4-ton pickup.
You can do this same search yourself in a matter of minutes for any US National Park you are interested in visiting.
We have a 21'9" travel trailer and have camped in it for a total of 7 months over the past 2.5 years. It got very small in the latter stages of our 3-month trip to Alaska in 2013, so we are currently selling it and ordering a 27-foot fifth wheel. We limited the length of the fifth wheel so that the total length of our truck and new trailer would be little more than with our current trailer. That way we can still fit into most of the shorter (40-foot driveway length), back-in RV sites that we have preferred with our current trailer.
BTW, back-in sites sometimes have more privacy than pull-thrus. That's why most long-term and seasonal residents of many of the RV parks we have visited fill up all the back-in spaces first. So, if you have to have maximum privacy, you want to buy an RV that you can easily back into RV spaces.
