Campground Maximum Length

DrewE wrote:

drsteve wrote:

Lwiddis wrote:
“If you are at all competent backing your rig, you can generally fudge it by a few feet without problem”

But I’ll be the RVer waiting and waiting while you try to horse an oversized rig into a site. JUST FOLLOW THE RULES! Do doctors recommend other doctors “fudge?”

LOL... no you won't. An extra five feet is always easily doable... unless you're one of those noobs who spend ten minutes hollering back and forth with his DW, who stands in his blind spot waving her arms and yelling... and still runs over the firepit.

That depends on the campground (and possibly the site). In many campgrounds, five feet extra is no big deal at all. Occasionally, though, that's not the case at all, and five feet over the stated site length means you'll stick out four and a half feet, and likely have to use a different site or a different campground.

I'm sure there must be such places, but I have yet to find them.
Virtually every CG leaves a margin for error to accommodate those with less experience, or long bed crew cab duallies, or cargo racks sticking off their rear bumper, or who go by the model number rather than the ball to bumper length. The difference between model and actual can sometimes be 5 feet.

The reason they do this is simple: they don't want frustrated customers showing up at the office complaining that they can't get parked on their sites, because then they have to move them somewhere else, and on crowded weekends this is a major PITA.