10 Places to avoid with your RV
Link The author had to dig deep to come up with this list, some of the places are just silly.
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We've been thru St Louis and have since done our best to avoid the place. We usually cross the river in Iowa.
I've been down Hwy 1 in CA several times but never towing, but I'm not sure what would make that worse than some other roads out west. I recall being with a friend in his car and almost burning out his brakes on that road but neither of us knew enough to downshift. I recall very well my first lesson in downshifting, I think it was in CO some police office stopped us when we were going down a downgrade too fast. He lectured me on the benefits of downshifting and that lesson stuck with me over the years.
As for Death Valley so far as I know the DV rangers close a lot of those dirt roads during the hot season. I looked at the DV site but could not find mention of that tho, so it may have changed. But in general from someone who does explore a lot of those back country roads, I would never think of pulling our 5ver down one unless we checked the road out first with just the truck. We did not make it to Tuweep on our last trip to the North Rim because the rangers warned us off saying the road had damage that was impossible to bypass.
I've been down Hwy 1 in CA several times but never towing, but I'm not sure what would make that worse than some other roads out west. I recall being with a friend in his car and almost burning out his brakes on that road but neither of us knew enough to downshift. I recall very well my first lesson in downshifting, I think it was in CO some police office stopped us when we were going down a downgrade too fast. He lectured me on the benefits of downshifting and that lesson stuck with me over the years.
As for Death Valley so far as I know the DV rangers close a lot of those dirt roads during the hot season. I looked at the DV site but could not find mention of that tho, so it may have changed. But in general from someone who does explore a lot of those back country roads, I would never think of pulling our 5ver down one unless we checked the road out first with just the truck. We did not make it to Tuweep on our last trip to the North Rim because the rangers warned us off saying the road had damage that was impossible to bypass.
