30 foot limit

Whatever your length, wherever you go please know that lying about your actual length is never, ever acceptable. I'm sure all of us, if we were being honest, myself included, would love to have an RV that is a bit to a lot larger than what we have but...

Buy what you want, hopefully what you can live with but lying about it makes you someone that no one really wants to be. As noted many length restrictions are based not just on the site length but but on the access roads in and out. Not only do you risk damaging your RV on overhanging trees, encroaching boulders etc. you know you do not belong in a 30' site with a 30'+ RV. additionally you likely will creat problems for fellow campers.

I have seen access roads partially to fully blocked by folks who simply did not even come close to fitting into their site with their RV/TV encroaching onto the access road. That might work until a neighbor has a heart attack at O'dark thirty and emergency vehicles can't get in {and God help you if that happens}. :S

Years ago when I was attending San Diego State a professor brought in a guest lecturer to discuss integrity, honor etc., as I recall he was a retired judge. He droned on for nearly an hour stressing that it was never, ever acceptable to lie. He pointed out that integrity is like virginity... once it is gone it is gone forever. Fnally in conclusion he hit this point one last time wrapping up his lecture with the following:

You must remember that it is never acceptable to lie... unless someone asks you to help them move.

:B

From personal experience, I can tell you that Wind Cave NP has many spots for a very short, as in shorter than our 27-5L, RVs. They do not have many sites that are able to handle a 40' rig, even though it is listed as unrestricted on that list that was linked to.
Many of the National Park campgrounds were made when people had 20' campers, and they haven't had the money to update them yet.

bobndot wrote:
I have not found length to be a problem yet but I can see how it could be a problem.

what I have found so far:
1. The entrance apron is too steep and the rear over hang drags entering the site.
2. The site itself is not level enough.
3. Overgrown vegetation. I have found state park managers with issues trimming trees that scrape my roof and sidewalls.
They advertise and charge for an rv site and ask 'how many feet long you are" but the entrance to the sites are often only wide or tall enough to fit cars.
I am not possibly damaging and scraping my rv on tree branches and shrubs, I have asked at the park offices that their advertised rv sites are too size restrictive. They usually send someone with a pole trimmer to cut branches back.
UV over time makes roof vents and skylights too brittle to play games with even thin low tree branches.

This is very true. Most places I camp like first come first served CG's don't specify lengths and I never had a problem fitting in. However Bob's description in 1,2,and 3 have all been a problem. I have a cracked AC cover, a puncture in my rear side wall, a cracked front end, a bent ladder to prove it, all of which I had to repair. Another problem I encountered was a hidden rock in weeds at Glacier NP that scraped one of my baggage doors when entering into the site. I found that staying in NFS CG's outside the NP's had larger sites and were more secluded and were better options for a 32ft MH. I am looking at downsizing to a 24 ft C that has more GC and that would be better suited for this type of camping.