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Weather is playing a larger part of our RV'ing. If we have a trip to the local lake/state park planned and it looks like it will be raining a good part of the time, we'll cancel. We like to sit outside and don't care anything about being cooped up inside for longer than overnight to sleep. We rode out two hurricanes in Virginia Beach, and a major 3-day flood in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Trust me, it was NO fun sitting in the camper with only the 10 channels on the campground cable.

I will stop short of saying that I'd NEVER drive the RV in snow, as I could well get caught in it. BUT....I will not intentionally set out traveling in the snow with the RV.

We used to ski, A LOT, and have driven in snow, ice, freezing rain, the whole mess. I have had the doors freeze shut twice and laid a C class over on its side once in deep snow. But bad weather of the normal kind has never stopped me. I have dug out with a loader to go South and have had to stay away from home because of flooding. I think I am more leery of wind than anything else because a 40ft DP with a trailer is just like a big sail and side wind gusts will move it.

We are bicyclists and the weather plays a huge part of our plan because we are outside much of the time. Riding in the rain is no fun...

Wind stops me if the California DOT doesn’t for that or other reasons. Nothing else...but I don’t like driving in the dark when towing.

Two answers. In general I "Winterize" (Head to upstate South Carolina) long about Halloween. or the first Sunday following the first Saturday in NOV (special party at church on said Saturday). and back mid-to MI (De-winterize) mid to late April .

Last spring I should have waited another week hit a major snow storm in Ohio but .. Got to MI and set up (No water yet in park. turned it on I think 2 days later but on board had abou 50 gallons when I got there or more).

But that is about the only time I look at the weather. If it is really bad I'll park till the storm clears.

on our way home from AZ last spring we stopped over at a park in Amarillo for what was to be just a couple of nights. we ended up staying a week because of really high winds. no place to go and all day to get there!

We only go to places above 70 degrees F....:)

Fire stopped our western trek this summer. We also will extend a day at a campground if travel day Wx looks bad.

We mostly travel in the Winter, out West, in the mountains. Snow and cold temps have never bothered us and the big dog loves the snow. We do keep an eye on the weather, which affects the route we will take to our next destination. If it looks like we may encounter a snow storm, I usually keep on the interstate highways. If there is a lot of snow on the ground from a previous storm, then I try to stick to the major roads. If it is just cold and it has been awhile since the last snow, then we drive the back roads, which we prefer. We also check ahead so that we can find a place to park. We once had to wait in Williams, AZ for the RV park owner to use his front loader to clear the snow out of a parking space so we could spend a few days there. Basically we are pretty flexible as to where we are going and just don't like to spend more than a few days at a location. The weather might cause us to change the route that we will take but it very very seldom stops us from traveling for a day or so.