Video TR: Death Valley National Park
It's the hottest, driest place in North America, and the lowest elevation in the Western Hemisphere. Yet if you look hard enough, you can spot signs of life everywhere in Death Valley, life that has a...
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ppine wrote:
There are plenty of roads in the Park and surrounding areas that you have no business taking a motor home or dragging a trailer. Stay on the main dirt roads. I have been going to DV often for 30 years but have never taken my RV.
If you have a toad you can park somehwere and do day trips. Otherwise you are kind of limited to the good roads which is where all of those people are. Better than not going, but not as a good as traveling by truck.
Avoid President's Day weekend the most crowded weekend of the year in Death Valley.
We don't need to tow because our particular short wheelbase E450 small Class C is kindof "a truck" anyway, with PU type ground clearance everywhere and tremendous dry weather traction on the rear tires from raw weight - that's what we shopped for and found when we bought it.
We've been on several back roads in DV in a small Class C - in both ours and in one of our friend's similar small Class C ... including also to the charcoal ovens in Death Valley. We were out of the crowds most of the time there so we could take the necessary time on rough roads.
I have had a high clearance 4X4 GMC pickup for years and have learned from it what to do and not do with our particular Class C ... although of course my 4X4 GMC truck chassis doesn't have anywhere near the beef of an E450 chassis for the handling of frame twist.
