27 Foot Good for State and National Park?

I'm living full time in an Arctic Fox 27 - 5L. If you would like to learn more about it and see where it can go please visit my blog. I visited several state parks and national parks before I started my blog pulling the Arctic Fox and so far its size has not been a problem.

agesilaus wrote:

Bill001 wrote:

agesilaus wrote:

rexlion wrote:
There are exceptions to every rule. Occasionally you may run into a CG tucked into a tight space, where your TT will be too long. But not often.

One place that comes to mind, above Ouray CO: Amphitheater USFS CG

That's true for commercial campgrounds but I assure you there are many Federal and State CG which won't take bigger RVs.

Thanks for writing. What length are you referring to as "bigger" RV?
Thanks,
B

In many cases bigger than 35 ft. Altho there are many sites limited to less than 30 ft. Yosemite for example only has a few sites in one valley CG that will take a 35 ft RV. Chiricahua NM only accepts short less than 29 ft RV's. I searched the nearby NF CG (near Chiricahua) and they had even shorter limits. Every park is different and there is no hard and fast length rule except that the longer your RV the more problems you will see in government CG.

You need to understand many of the Federal CG were first built in the 1930's thru the 50's. 40 ft long RVs were unknown. Campers looked more like this:

True, and the NP Campgrounds on the Blue Ridge Parkway were built for tents.

Yes TT is fairly limited...

Bill001 wrote:
Yes I will be alternating types of site too. Also seems that clubs like Thousand Trails would be another alternative at times.

Passport America is probably a better deal than Thousand Trails unless TT has CG in the areas you want to use and you will use them enough to make it pay for itself.

Yes I will be alternating types of site too. Also seems that clubs like Thousand Trails would be another alternative at times.

We have no problems finding someplace to camp near Federal parks. There are always commercial CG. Indeed we prefer to alternate commercial FHU CG with CG with minimum services.

Yes I was thinking about that...

I suppose life is filled with limitations. One would have to look ahead to work around them, but I am limiting myself to the shorter AC or Glacier Peak so that would be roughly a 30 foot limit without the tow vehicle and since RMNP supports up to 40 ft seems I can get into my favorite place. I will have to scope out the major parks I'm interested in.
Thanks,
Bill

Bill001 wrote:

agesilaus wrote:

rexlion wrote:
There are exceptions to every rule. Occasionally you may run into a CG tucked into a tight space, where your TT will be too long. But not often.

One place that comes to mind, above Ouray CO: Amphitheater USFS CG

That's true for commercial campgrounds but I assure you there are many Federal and State CG which won't take bigger RVs.

Thanks for writing. What length are you referring to as "bigger" RV?
Thanks,
B

In many cases bigger than 35 ft. Altho there are many sites limited to less than 30 ft. Yosemite for example only has a few sites in one valley CG that will take a 35 ft RV. Chiricahua NM only accepts short less than 29 ft RV's. I searched the nearby NF CG (near Chiricahua) and they had even shorter limits. Every park is different and there is no hard and fast length rule except that the longer your RV the more problems you will see in government CG.

You need to understand many of the Federal CG were first built in the 1930's thru the 50's. 40 ft long RVs were unknown. Campers looked more like this:

agesilaus wrote:

rexlion wrote:
There are exceptions to every rule. Occasionally you may run into a CG tucked into a tight space, where your TT will be too long. But not often.

One place that comes to mind, above Ouray CO: Amphitheater USFS CG

That's true for commercial campgrounds but I assure you there are many Federal and State CG which won't take bigger RVs.

Thanks for writing. What length are you referring to as "bigger" RV?
Thanks,
B

I've run into issues with the combined length. Trailer is only 21' but add the 20' truck and you are over 35', once you disconnect you need even more. Feels kind of silly asking for a 35' or 40' site at a National Park when they only have a couple.