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strikeu
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Feb 20, 2020

getting trapped inside a park

I've searched the different forums and haven't found any stories about this, but this question doesn't just apply to fifth wheels, it could apply to any rig :

has anyone pulled into an unfamiliar park, only to find out their rig is too large to maneuver through and get out? if so how did you do it?

we recently visited a state park, and I just moved from Washington where there are several state parks near where we lived. we drove in without our rig, which was a GOOD thing because if I had been pulling my fiver there was NO way we would have gotten out. switchback roads, trees lining the very narrow drive. deception pass state park comes to mind, on the island side. I think there is a sign or some literature that limits trailers to 20 ft, but if you didn't know that and pulled in...you're screwed, you're not getting out.
  • It’s happened to us with a fiver and with our motorhome towing a dingy. We have had to back the fifth wheel quite a distance and had to unhook the toad to get out.
  • Well, it almost happened to us once.
    The teen-aged girl at the entrance to Roosevelt State Park in Mississippi told us to take the first right to get to our campsite. She should have said the first right past the lake - the first right led down a narrow peninsula with cabins on each side.
    There was (barely) enough room to turn around, but only after park rangers showed up and made some cabin dwellers move their trucks and boat trailers.