National Park- Motorhome legnth?
I was always told you should keep your RV to under a 30ft legnth. Why is that? I just bought a class A that is 31' 10". So what can't I do now?
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What korbe said: "The longer the RV, the fewer campsites available". What you can't do is fit into a site that is too small. There is really no such thing as a site that is too big.
You can't park in a 24-foot site. You can't park in a 18-foot site. You need a larger one. A smaller RV can fit in a larger site as well as the smaller site.
I've been in state parks, and national park campgrounds, where about a quarter of the sites are just big enough for a 18-20 foot van, small trailer, or a pop-up camper, half are in the 24-30 foot range (and back-ins), fewer than a quarter fit for anything in the 36-40 foot range. Since many of these are also pulling another vehicle, they are more like 55-65 feet long. A handful of sites, usually pulloffs alongside the campground road, are available for those.
That's between the Mississippi River and the Colorado Plateau. The sizes and mixes are different in different parts of the country. You and I at 28-32 feet might find it very difficult to get a suitable site in some of the older, heavily forested campgrounds in state parks in Michigan and Wisconsin. I haven't been to the northeast, but I suspect the campground situation might be much like Michigan.
How much impact this has on you depends on where you want to go, what you want to do. My 30-foot motorhome is enough "too big" for some of the places I want to go that I am converting a 18-foot van to a camper, and for longer stays, shopping travel trailers in the 13-18 foot range.
You can't park in a 24-foot site. You can't park in a 18-foot site. You need a larger one. A smaller RV can fit in a larger site as well as the smaller site.
I've been in state parks, and national park campgrounds, where about a quarter of the sites are just big enough for a 18-20 foot van, small trailer, or a pop-up camper, half are in the 24-30 foot range (and back-ins), fewer than a quarter fit for anything in the 36-40 foot range. Since many of these are also pulling another vehicle, they are more like 55-65 feet long. A handful of sites, usually pulloffs alongside the campground road, are available for those.
That's between the Mississippi River and the Colorado Plateau. The sizes and mixes are different in different parts of the country. You and I at 28-32 feet might find it very difficult to get a suitable site in some of the older, heavily forested campgrounds in state parks in Michigan and Wisconsin. I haven't been to the northeast, but I suspect the campground situation might be much like Michigan.
How much impact this has on you depends on where you want to go, what you want to do. My 30-foot motorhome is enough "too big" for some of the places I want to go that I am converting a 18-foot van to a camper, and for longer stays, shopping travel trailers in the 13-18 foot range.
