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Lwiddis wrote:
Places we can’t go, Rack? Same thing I said scouting Hartley Springs USFS CG in the Inyo National Forest...no way for my 43 foot total TV and TT...until I arrived and found six 45 foot MHs, some with toads.

It's worth noting that I never said you wouldn't be able to get into Hartley Springs CG. While anecdotes can be interesting, they're often not that useful. Bring your "I can get in anywhere" attitude to many TX state parks, and you'll be in for an unpleasant surprise.

TX designed most of its state parks decades ago, when RVs were much shorter, and hasn't updated many of them, and the same applies in many other locales. Consequently, there are still many campgrounds with narrow roads, sharp corners that are difficult to impossible for long RVs to make, and campsites way too short for longer rigs.

Someone mentioned height awareness, and that's a valid concern as well. Ours measures 13'6" from the ground to the tops of the rooftop antennas, and I don't want to be trimming tree branches with them.

A case in point is Goose Island State Park in Rockport, TX. It has waterfront campsites on Copano Bay which we enjoyed many times in the 90s. Now, lack of maintenance has resulted in numerous untrimmed low tree branches over the road leading to the park such that we don't go there anymore.

I don't doubt your experience at Inyo. Please don't doubt mine here in TX, and many other places we've traveled. The reality is that with many longer/higher RVs, there will be places you just have to pass up, and when we bought ours, it was a decision we made with our eyes wide open.