Quick overnight stops in route

The operative question to this issue is "what kind and how big is your RV"?
The answer, will generally determine when and where you can park to get some rest!! Driving my 35' 5th. wheel is real different than driving my van or car!

Never mind

Stop at all above plus we have stayed in police parking lots , hospital lots , closed or abandoned business , fairgrounds , Camping World . I never plan ahead and I will always find a safe place . One hundred and two trailer nites last year , two of those nites in paid campgrounds . I am a traveler not a camper .

FlyingJ first choice.
Why?
Stop for night, Fill, gas, propane, water etc and dump as necessary, eat dinner,
go to bed. In morning run in and get breakfast either to go or at Denny's and be on the road early.

Second choice Lowe's.
Why? Closes early so no all night noise like Walmart. Blazing fast wifi. Employees arrive early and the noise usually wakes me up so I can get on the road.

Third choice Walmart.
Why third
DW spends a ton of money there each time we stop...

Ran into a BRASS PRO SHOP parking lot once where they had RV Parking identified in one section. Had tall hedges separating the sites and even had a 120VAC 20A pedestal... This was in the town just north of Montgomery ALA... Can't remember the name haha...

Just looked it up PRATTVILLE AL

Roy Ken

(We always make reservations.) We try to stay at state parks. If we can't find any at the planned stopping spot, then we'll stay at KOA or other parks of that sort. In either case, we try to be near the bathhouse so that we don't have to put water in the trailer or dump.

Last year we took two 2-day each way trips. The first night I pulled into a campground at night in the rain just before the office closed at 9pm. Thankfully the site was level side to side, but it was still a little hassle backing in dark and rain. The next 3 times we stay overnight was in rest areas/truck parking. They were far enough away from the freeway and restrooms to be quiet. No unhooking or backing, just transfer sleeping kids. Oh, and I could drive another 200+ miles each day, 12-1am.

We do not, because we always plan a max driving distance of 6 hours. This provides lots of wiggle room to make side excursions and on-the-spot site seeing or if a road side attraction grabs our attention. We plan 6 hours of drive time and stay in actual campgrounds, even if just over night. We also enjoy exploring new campgrounds and enjoy meeting other RVers there too. It really provides a safe, comfortable, and restful night of sleep. Of course, we incorporate the drive in our plans. The "journey" is just is important as the "destination". Maybe even more. So we don't rush and drive for hours on-end and arrive exhausted and beat out. We use to do that when the kids were little, and it ended up being no fun, because everyone arrive at the destination with all these plans, and ended up, the first day there, we were all so tired and grouchy, no one enjoyed anything, except arguing with each other and everyone grumpy. So when the kids no longer camped with us, as they got older, we shifted the way we travel and camp. But with kids, especially when they are young, it IS all about the destination.

But to answer the OP's question, we've pull into grocery store parking lots a few times and caught a few hours. And we've stayed in a couple church parking lots too. (we had a prior "OK" from the pastor, and left a donation for them too).

Do you have a particular route in mind?

Walmart
Flying J
Casinos
Rest areas if allowed