Making reservations for every night?
I am a newbie to RVing but looking forward to the journey. I have just finished planning our two week trip from Seattle to Yellowstone thru Montana with a return thru Idaho for June of 2018, with rese...
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We full-timed and traveled for 16 years. If we were the 'make reservations' kind we would have had to make reservations for 5,840 nights!! No way.
Even with our 40' motorhome and public parks always being our first choice we've never been turned away and didn't have to go searching at the last minute. We've stayed in many of the major national parks including Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Glacier, Zion, Bryce, etc. We also use national forest campgrounds, state parks, Corp of Engineers, county and city parks. We rarely did RV parks. We loved boondocking on public lands (not WalMarts) so when doing that you can always find a spot.
Now, I will say that our time wasn't locked in like many who have a 2-week vacation. For those, yes, make reservations for your major stops. We were once 2-weekers also so I know the limitations involved.
We didn't try to get a site on a Friday or at any place that had any kind of water on the 3-day holidays - pools, lakes, rivers. We let the weekend warriors have those times and we'd move to them when they left on Monday.
It doesn't work for everyone but surely did for us.
Even with our 40' motorhome and public parks always being our first choice we've never been turned away and didn't have to go searching at the last minute. We've stayed in many of the major national parks including Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Glacier, Zion, Bryce, etc. We also use national forest campgrounds, state parks, Corp of Engineers, county and city parks. We rarely did RV parks. We loved boondocking on public lands (not WalMarts) so when doing that you can always find a spot.
Now, I will say that our time wasn't locked in like many who have a 2-week vacation. For those, yes, make reservations for your major stops. We were once 2-weekers also so I know the limitations involved.
We didn't try to get a site on a Friday or at any place that had any kind of water on the 3-day holidays - pools, lakes, rivers. We let the weekend warriors have those times and we'd move to them when they left on Monday.
It doesn't work for everyone but surely did for us.
