Top 5

After you have been traveling for a very little while, you will find out that 5 is just a number that doesn't matter.
You don't say what your RV is, and that does make a difference. When we tent camped and had kids in tow, we had to make camp at a very early hour. Now we have a motorhome. Setting up for the night means hitting the leveling controls and turning the engine off.

Most of all, learn how to use your RV. Literally, plan a first night, maybe more - In Your Own Driveway. You can run on shore power, but use the water system and try to stay in the RV for what you need. Look at what you loaded that you now know was a waste. We all had to learn these things. Some were hard lessons.

You want to travel and see things, make a list. Mine list started 60+ years ago watching the Mickey Mouse Club on my grandmother's TV. I've now actually gotten to some of those places. We've gotten to other places too. Like Mt. Haleakala, College Fiord, Mt. Washington, The Blue Ridge Parkway, Devil's Tower - just to name a few.

My advice:
Start with very reasonable plans. When you get more comfortable, longer ranges will be more easily planned and executed. If it is a stop that you have always wanted to see, read everything about it first and when you find a recommended time, double it.....

Most of all, make the excursion fun.

Matt

Bahia de Los Angeles, Baja Sur, Mexico
Bryce Canyon National Park
Grand Teton National Park
Scotty Lake, Talkeetna, Alaska with view of Denali National Park
Steens Mountains, SE Oregon

I have visited most of those places mentioned here in my travels over the years.

Don't really have the urge to spend a bunch of monies to pull my RV into those areas at all... RV 'traveling' is not my cup of tea so it seems...

We do almost all of our RV 'camping' around our local state and up and down the Blue Ridge Parkway... The Smoky Mtns in TN/NC is considered a long trip for us haha...

I just can't think of any good reason to travel 12-days on the road in a 2-week vacation just to spend a couple of days at somewhere like Yellowstone NP... We can wake up a bunch of mornings creekside watching the fish jump around here within 2-3 hundred miles of home base and only have maybe one day of RV travel all considered..

It all depends what you all want to do and can afford I guess...

Roy Ken

Redwoods, GC, Grand Coulee Dam, Hoover Dam, Las Vegas

Alabama Jim wrote:
Glacier NP, Rocky Mountain NP, Yellowstone NP, Grand Tetons, Black Hills of SD, Roosevelt NP - ND, Custer State Park, SD.

Those, but I would include Custer SP in with the Black Hills along with the Badlands, then add Yosemite.
But there are so many more that you can't just stop at 5, because some of the others would be top 5 also, like Grand Canyon, Sequoia/Kings Canyon, Mt Rainier, Zion, & the entire Moab area,& on&on.
Heck, just do them all as you come to them. :B

Out West --- Grand Canyon, Bryce/Zion, Monument Valley, Rushmore, Yellowstone.

Glacier NP, Rocky Mountain NP, Yellowstone NP, Grand Tetons, Black Hills of SD, Roosevelt NP - ND, Custer State Park, SD.