Length and public campsite availability lately?

We find there are private campgrounds/RV Resorts near the popular and many other national and state parks. We have a 38 foot 5th wheel and have always been able to find a site in the areas where we visit. Sometimes it's a public campground and most of the time it's a private resort because we like to enjoy the extra amenities.

During the week it's easier to get a site. For weekends and holiday weeks, with planning you will be able to find a site in or near most destinations. Go for the longer RV and you'll not regret it.

We do both dry camping and RV Parks and never had problems parking our 35 ft. motorhome, except one place in the Red Woods, Ca. We ended up staying in an RV Park. Go for the 30 ft. if I were you.

30 feet unless it is the longer wheel base (213?) may be not so nice to drive.

The "perfect" length is a 27 foot on a 176 inch wheelbase.

Here is the chart on trailer/MH limits for California State Parks for your consideration. https://www.parks.ca.gov/RVlength

Ge the 30 footer, if that's the size you want. A smaller size is no guarantee you will be more successful getting a spot in a coveted campground.

I agree with the consensus; get the longer motorhome if that's what you really are interested in. I don't think the extra six feet will too often mean not being able to get a site. Of course, it does mean that fewer sites will fit you, but at least in my limited experience the two basic conditions seem to be "pretty much nothing is available" (in which case one is out of luck regardless) or "there's at lest something available for various sized RVs."

If you're willing to be somewhat flexible in terms of where you end up going and what ammenities you require, or else to plan farther in advance for things you don't care to be flexible about, you should have few problems at 30'.

Here in Vermont, we may very well have the fewest large sites proportionally of any state park system. I have yet to encounter a time when I wished to go camping in my 32' class C when I couldn't find a suitable site at a state park, even on short notice (a couple days or the same day). I have sometimes had to be a bit flexible about which state park I camped at. When traveling out of state, the main problems I've had are more along the lines of pulling in to a public park and finding it's closed for rennovations for the season or something like that.

We never have problems finding a spot with a 36' pulling a utility trailer. Been full-time 9 yrs now. Have used a variety of campgrounds in multiple states. Even if they say 30', many times there is a curb stop at the back of the site, but you can back your rear wheels to that and a lot of the motorhome is behind that stop leaving plenty of room to the road.

We had a 32' Class C and never had a problem finding a site on the East Coast, public or private.

As others have said, get the one that better suits your needs, not the one that might fit better into certain campgrounds. I thought our 32' Class C was cramped, I couldn't imagine what a 24' would feel like.

-Michael

Feel your pain. We had problems with Hunting Island SP. The description of the sites say something accommodation for up to 30 feet. Then the actual size of the site we were looking at was huge. Like 35 or 40 feet wide and 60 feet long. I ended up calling them and was told that those measurements were the size of the entire site. I could not understand if that was part of the brush and undergrowth, but apparently it was. We did not get a site because there was none that would match our time off

Assuming that you can back your MH into a space - I never had a problem finding a site with our 28' Class C (and I camped in some pretty tight/rustic/forested spots!). When we owned a 5er, we gravitated towards pull-through sites, so that limited us a bit more. Now we're in a converted cargo van, so the world is our oyster (but the living space is plenty cramped). If you are planning any extended trips - get the floor plan you like the best.