TT length & campsite restrictions

The length limits posted for a campground could come from a number of reasons and possibly no reason at all.

It could be the length of the parking spur, turning radius of a curve in the loop road through the campground, a short deep dip or bump, Or it could be from 30 years ago and no one bothered to update the number after the campground was remodeled to modern specs.

I have a 34' 5th wheel...........I always get a 34' or longer site.

It's about the trailer length not the combo truck/trailer.

Have found that odd one on occasion which was just long enough and had to park truck sideways but usually room for truck

generally it is the total length of the trailer and it includes space for 1 vehicle to park
I suggest you visit rv park reviews and look up the site you like

Thanks, that helps!

Size is a guide. A 30' pad length can accommodate much longer if the back past the wheels hangs out past the pad end. There is always room to park the TV sort of beside or across the front.

Once in awhile you also see 30 foot trailer, TV must park in lot but this is rare. One campground we like has a 32 foot max limit. My trailer is 35 but that includes the hitch. They told me I would be fine but it seems a little tight so we have not gone..

With Wa. State CG's, the stated length has almost nothing to do with reality.

LaEst_CO wrote:
When a campsite says that their sites are for <30' RV's, does that take into account the tow vehicle as well? I am not sure if I need to go with the larger sites as my TT is 30' long but that does not include my truck.

Think about it for a moment and you'll answer your own question ;) ... if a campsite is rated "for <30' RV's" then that would have to refer just the trailer itself, otherwise if that rating included the length your truck, say ~ 20', that would mean the trailer could only be 10' long, which obviously makes no sense at all. As has already been noted, ratings on campsite dimensions are very general at best and often when you get there aren't even close to reality. Particularly if there's no solid object such as a tree trunk or large boulder at the rear of the parking pad you can often "buy" more space by backing the trailer even further back into the site with that part of the trailer aft of the axles overhanging beyond the rear of the pad, thereby allowing more space at the front for parking your truck. Every situation is different though and in the years we've been camping, places we've been here in Canada and in the US, I've concluded that any trailer 25' coupler to bumper can be parked on pretty well any campsite we might ever choose or be assigned, other than a terraced tent site (for obvious reasons), but as the trailer length extends beyond that there may be some times when a little more care is required when selecting a suitable site. That said, I don't recall a single time in the years we owned our KZ Spree (26' 9" coupler to bumper) that I wasn't able to place it on any campsite we had. As for the truck, only a couple of times have I had to park it away from our campsite, otherwise I've always managed to snug it in at the front of the trailer and keep it off the campsite road. Our current trailer is just 22' 6" coupler to bumper so I no longer ever give campsite dimensions any thought at all. :B

I only consider the length of our motorhome and not the car we are towing and so far have not had a site we couldn't fit into.

In traveling full-time for 16+ years we've never found that stated size campsites are true or uniform from park to park. It's just a guess on your part.

One of our volunteering gigs in Rocky Mtn. Nat'l Park was to actually measure the campsites and make a list of what size RV with vehicle would fit in that site. It was amazing comparing our recommendations to the old list they used.

We've always preferred public parks - national, state, national forests, etc. and for the most part, a site with a 35' max could fit our 40' motorhome with the Jeep usually parked in front of the MH and angled across the front. We became pretty creative in parking the Jeep! If you have a big dually truck then you probably couldn't park angled like that. Most campgrounds request that you park in the parking area - not in the vegetation.