myredracer wrote:
We carry a 2nd 30 amp shore power cord and a generator adapter that allows us to make up a 50' cord. The 2nd one is also good in case our nice Marinco cord walks away or is damaged.
I carry 140' of 10 gauge main service cable, including the trailer's 25' cable. Here in the Ontario provincial park system I would rarely use less than 75' to reach the campsite power post but 100' is likewise not that uncommon. Last year we managed to get a premium site in the newly opened Holmes Bay campground at Inverhuron provincial park - even my 140' of cable wouldn't get me to the post so I had to move the trailer forward. This particular park, originally opened in 1967, had been closed for years but 11 yrs ago was completely rebuilt and reopened - in doing so the main power trunks were buried alongside the campsite roads, with the power pedestals located just a few feet into each site. The purpose (I assume) was to avoid the significantly increased cost of running main service cable all the way from the road to the rear of the trailer pad but the end result is that anyone camping in this park would be wise to have
at least 75' of main service cable, preferably more. This is not to say every campsite in every OPP is like this but across the system long runs to the power post are not unusual at all.
