How do you estimate overall length?
Lets say a National Park limits the overall length of the TV + trailer to 40ft. For PU/FW combo, how do you determine this? Is it when it is hitched up (most amount of overlap) or do they measure the ...
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Often, the length restriction is for the roads, not for the sites. Sometimes, the roads are very narrow, twisty, and/or have close trees or grades which would make it harder for a larger vehicle to navigate. Other times, the way the campsites are laid out (perpendicular rather than slanted) make it very difficult to back into a site with a larger vehicle.
We are currently in a site that is 80' long. Can accommodate anything, right? Well, half the site is flat, the other half is a moderate grade - no problem for most length vehicle combinations. But, further up on the campground road (the only road through the park) is a space in the road with a width of just over 8.5'. Just past that is a rising curve that will be near impossible for a A over 40' or a tt over 35' unless the driver is extremely skilled and/or patient. Also, anything over 13' tall will scrape branches.
Because there are so many lousy, impatient, unskilled drivers who get themselves into situations where they damage their vehicles, the road, the trees, the NPS limits sizes. This way, they don't have to listen to people rant and rave when they race through a campground bouncing from tree to tree, threatening to sue the government for the driver not knowing how to drive.
This summer, up at Custer, we got trapped behind a fiver. He had decided he was going to take one of those wonderful roads that wind through the park. You know, the twisty turny mountain type roads built for nothing bigger than a pick-up. Yeah well, I'm sure the damage was up to 5 figures by the time he got out. Took him 45 minutes and another truck winching him sideways off the rocks, but he did get free...
We are currently in a site that is 80' long. Can accommodate anything, right? Well, half the site is flat, the other half is a moderate grade - no problem for most length vehicle combinations. But, further up on the campground road (the only road through the park) is a space in the road with a width of just over 8.5'. Just past that is a rising curve that will be near impossible for a A over 40' or a tt over 35' unless the driver is extremely skilled and/or patient. Also, anything over 13' tall will scrape branches.
Because there are so many lousy, impatient, unskilled drivers who get themselves into situations where they damage their vehicles, the road, the trees, the NPS limits sizes. This way, they don't have to listen to people rant and rave when they race through a campground bouncing from tree to tree, threatening to sue the government for the driver not knowing how to drive.
This summer, up at Custer, we got trapped behind a fiver. He had decided he was going to take one of those wonderful roads that wind through the park. You know, the twisty turny mountain type roads built for nothing bigger than a pick-up. Yeah well, I'm sure the damage was up to 5 figures by the time he got out. Took him 45 minutes and another truck winching him sideways off the rocks, but he did get free...
