Length restricted rv parks

Bill.Satellite wrote:
Like the Dirty Harry movies "a man just needs to know his limitations"! If you can't go where you want, there is likely somewhere nearby that you can. Generally this means a higher highly cost (and sometime much higher) but you will be able to find somewhere to park near where you want to visit. State and City parks will be the most challenging but we find to be some of the best in the Country. They put them there for a reason and that's usually the view or the location or both.
We have been very happy with our 40 footer but it's all about the floor plan. There are 45 footers that have less living room than my 40 foot coach. Also, if you plan to have slides you may be quite surprised how much living room you have with the slides out in the 40 foot and still have some money left over to pay for those times you have to pay too much for a site.

Well, he did drive a bus in the Gauntlet....although not as Dirty Harry....

Like the Dirty Harry movies "a man just needs to know his limitations"! If you can't go where you want, there is likely somewhere nearby that you can. Generally this means a higher nighly cost (and sometime much higher) but you will be able to find somewhere to park near where you want to visit. State and City parks will be the most challenging but we find to be some of the best in the Country. They put them there for a reason and that's usually the view or the location or both.
We have been very happy with our 40 footer but it's all about the floor plan. There are 45 footers that have less living room than my 40 foot coach. Also, if you plan to have slides you may be quite surprised how much living room you have with the slides out in the 40 foot and still have some money left over to pay for those times you have to pay too much for a site.

Thx for all the info. You are really making it tough on me to get the 45’ I am fixing to pull the trigger on. I am thinking maybe a 40’ would be better but now to convince the wife and kids on that.

ppine wrote:
I cannot imagine owning an RV that might be too big for an RV park.
I like em under 25 feet. Then they fit almost everywhere.

And I cannot imagine anything less than 40'!

WW

We have had length issues lots of times in the 10 1/2 years we have owned our coach. I would say most public parks in National Parks and some States spaces big enough to accept 40 foot is rare. Most newer commercial RV parks are fine with over 40, but I always tell them the size of our rig in case some of their sites will not fit.

ArchHoagland wrote:

hypoxia wrote:

rapdaddyR wrote:
How many rv parks that anyone has run across do not allow anything any bigger than 40’? Thx

A lot! It is humorous for me to see folks with short campers answering the question and say they have not seen that problem. Also, the longer you are the more difficult to level on a slope.

Were those parks regular commercial RV parks with full hookups or were they government campgrounds?

I know lot's of government campgrounds limit size but I've never seen commercial RV parks that limit the size.

Once we exceeded 40' there have been a lot of commercial parks we don't fit into. The newer boring parks have room but the older fun parks are limited. That is also true of electrical service available.

hypoxia wrote:

rapdaddyR wrote:
How many rv parks that anyone has run across do not allow anything any bigger than 40’? Thx

A lot! It is humorous for me to see folks with short campers answering the question and say they have not seen that problem. Also, the longer you are the more difficult to level on a slope.

Were those parks regular commercial RV parks with full hookups or were they government campgrounds?

I know lot's of government campgrounds limit size but I've never seen commercial RV parks that limit the size.

We like state parks and some of those can be limited. As others have said, it was the way the park was built years ago. State and federal parks seem to keep things as natural as possible and as a result it can make things tighter/smaller. That said we have never had an issue finding an alternate CG nearby if one doesn't work - but we travel mostly on the East Coast.

While not necessarily a restriction, finding open sites for the larger rigs can be challenging (expect for those $100/night resorts!). We are now in MI trying to find campsites and there are plenty available for 30-35 footers but finding a site for my 40' coach has not been successful in the areas we would like to visit (think beach). We were doing find until last week and now all the parks are booked for larger RV's and I may have to stay at Wal-Mart for our next stop before moving on.

We camp in a lot of the provincial parks in Ontario Canada, and most sites are restricted to 18feet, even though we are 26 feet we still book as most of the time we have been there before and know what sites we will still fit into. but yes there is restrictions with length in a lot of places