Do I need a full parking pad?

Bobbo wrote:

Water-Bug wrote:
I park mine on 2"×12"×8's pressure treated lumber and it works fine. Soil is sandy, so rain isn't an issue,

I did this for a year or two before having a concrete pad poured. More trouble, but it works. I used 12 foot long boards, and it took 2.5 boards to reach the front tires. I think it only took 1 board to reach the inside dually, so a total of 7 boards. I did it because I have clay soil. The VERY FIRST time I put the RV in the back yard, it rained. I had to get a tow truck to pull me back onto the driveway. I even have a photo of my RV parked on them:



I now have a concrete parking pad with a pole barn cover and 50 amp pedestal with phone and satellite. The only things I don't have right there are shore water and sewer.

I decided to add an "after" picture:

rhagfo wrote:
I guess i just don't get the whole idea of parking the trailer at home during the summer. I assume that the rest of the year the trailer is in a storage yard. Is the storage yard far away? Do you cancel storage for the four or five months of summer, then hope to get it back in the fall?

This thread is about those of us who park our rigs at home year round.

Mickeyfan0805 wrote:
Right now, our trailer spends the summer sitting in, and thus blocking, much of our driveway. I have an open area next to our drive that would fit our TT. It is grass at this point, and we don't want to put in a full pad in this area. If I were to use it for the trailer, are there reasons to turn the entire area into a gravel drive, or could I simply put in footings and a parking base at the tire and jack locations? I know such a set up would mean I'd need to look ahead and get the trailer onto pavement if we were going to be pulling out on wet/rainy days, but beyond that, are there other reasons this wouldn't work?

The way I read the OP's post it was a Summer thing, see highlight above.
If at home all the time, then gravel or concrete pad. I don't have an issue working out of a storage yard, and by using a storage yard I don't telegraph when I have my 5er out on the road and no one is home!