Yosemite, battery, propane, heating, March
Hello everyone and thanks for your time and answers in advance. My wife, daughter and I have a five day trip scheduled to Yosemite the last week in March. We are new to RVing (long time tent cam...
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"Jbrowland".....We camp every Thanksgiving in Yosemites' Upper Pines campground (22 years). The generator hours are now 7-9 am, 12-2 pm and 5-7pm. If you don't keep the coach warm through the day, it will be hard to warm it up at night. For the past 10 years, we've been using this Buddy Heater. In a coach your size, you can run it on low all day and keep the coach at about 60 degrees, which is pretty warm. It will use about 2.5 - 3 small disposal bottles of propane per day. They can be found at a good price at Walmart. For years we never used ours at night until we discovered several friends were running theirs all night with a window open about an inch. They are perfectly safe and have many safety features. We find that 60 degrees at Yosemite is plenty warm to comfortably sleep in.
When you get up in the morning, run the generator to recharge your batteries and cook breakfast. If the batteries ever get really low, start the motor home. The alternator will charge your batteries quicker than the generator and they are much quieter at idle than a generator. Don't forget to top off your fuel on the way in, since your generator won't run past a 1/4 tank (coach fuel tank).
You rarely need chains in Yosemite. If you rush out when it snows, you might, but if you wait, they do a good job of clearing the roads. We live in Southern California and enter the park via Fresno and Hwy 41. Hwy 41 takes you through the tunnel, best view in the world, but also takes you past the highway to Glacier Point where the altitude is 6000 feet and can be dangerous or closed when it's snowing. Typically, we never have an issue coming in through Hwy 41, but on occasion when the weather got bad, we exited the park via Hwy 140. Hwy 140 starts dropping in elevation the minute you leave the park and is safer if the weather is bad.
When you get up in the morning, run the generator to recharge your batteries and cook breakfast. If the batteries ever get really low, start the motor home. The alternator will charge your batteries quicker than the generator and they are much quieter at idle than a generator. Don't forget to top off your fuel on the way in, since your generator won't run past a 1/4 tank (coach fuel tank).
You rarely need chains in Yosemite. If you rush out when it snows, you might, but if you wait, they do a good job of clearing the roads. We live in Southern California and enter the park via Fresno and Hwy 41. Hwy 41 takes you through the tunnel, best view in the world, but also takes you past the highway to Glacier Point where the altitude is 6000 feet and can be dangerous or closed when it's snowing. Typically, we never have an issue coming in through Hwy 41, but on occasion when the weather got bad, we exited the park via Hwy 140. Hwy 140 starts dropping in elevation the minute you leave the park and is safer if the weather is bad.
