Fifth wheel length
I love to stay in state parks and national parks. With that said my wife and I are searching for a new fifth wheel to replace our current 23ft TT. How many of you out there are rolling a 40ft+ fifth w...
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We have done the BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY a couple of times between VA and TN. You can certainly tell their camp grounds every 50 miles along the route were originally built for Tent camping sites haha... You do see a few larger RV's in them however...
Our local George Washington and Jefferson Natl Forest areas are the same and getting anything bigger than my OFF-ROAD POPUP trailer might be chore going down their single lane forest service roads... You can do the roads ok it the turns that will hang you up on a tree haha... State parks around here no problem...
Out West you see the big guys just sitting anywhere they will fit along the dispersed camping areas...
I guess I fit the RV CAMPER mold. Never did fit into the RV TRAVELER world where everyone has to have their whole house being brought with them and those expenses that goes with that... Back in the 50s-60s tent camping Mom and Dad slept in the tent and the kids would get in their sleeping bags and sleep anywhere they wanted to. Haha
It costs me the same for gas trucking down to the Smokys at Gatlingburg whether I am pulling my OFF-ROAD POPUP or driving empty... Can make my 450 miles on one tank of gas either way... Thats 20 gallons of gas verses 75 gallons when you only get 6 MPG...
My only maintenance expenses on my POPUP trailer for equipment since 2008 has been a set of tires.. All the other modern items still working great... We very seldom get more than 300 miles away from homeport here in Virginia...
But we all do what we wanta do I reckon...
Roy Ken
Our local George Washington and Jefferson Natl Forest areas are the same and getting anything bigger than my OFF-ROAD POPUP trailer might be chore going down their single lane forest service roads... You can do the roads ok it the turns that will hang you up on a tree haha... State parks around here no problem...
Out West you see the big guys just sitting anywhere they will fit along the dispersed camping areas...
I guess I fit the RV CAMPER mold. Never did fit into the RV TRAVELER world where everyone has to have their whole house being brought with them and those expenses that goes with that... Back in the 50s-60s tent camping Mom and Dad slept in the tent and the kids would get in their sleeping bags and sleep anywhere they wanted to. Haha
It costs me the same for gas trucking down to the Smokys at Gatlingburg whether I am pulling my OFF-ROAD POPUP or driving empty... Can make my 450 miles on one tank of gas either way... Thats 20 gallons of gas verses 75 gallons when you only get 6 MPG...
My only maintenance expenses on my POPUP trailer for equipment since 2008 has been a set of tires.. All the other modern items still working great... We very seldom get more than 300 miles away from homeport here in Virginia...
But we all do what we wanta do I reckon...
Roy Ken
