Small town parking. Suggestions /tips
We are in the new England area and driving around we want to hit some small towns in route. Any suggestions/tips for parking with the rv in these areas? We currently have a 33ft travel trailer.
Forum Discussion
One campground owner who posts on this forum argued with me when I had mentioned in a post that in many cities and towns you can overnight in school parking lots during the summer when school is out for the summer. The largest high school of the 3 here parking lot has just over 1800 car/vehicle parking spaces and around 500 are kept open for summer school students and adult classes etc. It's very commonly done in the region where we live.
Just had the huge national U.S. Coast Guard Festival which has 350,000 to 500,000 attendance yearly in our city of around 11,000 and the local metro area of approx 70,000. Lots of RV's staying in school parking lots (hundreds) all over town for a week or more. Totally legal!
A drop in the bucket compared to the huge number staying in church parking lots or city parking lots around the edges/rows leaving the centers of the lots for vehicle parking and business customers. This has been going on for as long as I can remember and I'm nearly 77 years old. There is no charge for parking and staying there either. Hurt the local campgrounds bottom line? Not a chance as all 12 are booked full always.
Can't have fires of course or fasten anything to the ground or dump anything on the ground and the city puts some dumpsters for refuse. An RV must have it's own contained toilet facilities to park there and it's required.
The city has an ordinance code prohibiting RV's overnighting in store parking lots such as Walmart, Meijer, Home Depot, etc as they are a business owned parking lots and not controlled directly by the city. No overnight truck parking allowed either.
It works out great for all and has for decades now. Yes, the local police, county sheriffs, and the state police do cruise thru these lots am couple times each day looking for violators.
Just had the huge national U.S. Coast Guard Festival which has 350,000 to 500,000 attendance yearly in our city of around 11,000 and the local metro area of approx 70,000. Lots of RV's staying in school parking lots (hundreds) all over town for a week or more. Totally legal!
A drop in the bucket compared to the huge number staying in church parking lots or city parking lots around the edges/rows leaving the centers of the lots for vehicle parking and business customers. This has been going on for as long as I can remember and I'm nearly 77 years old. There is no charge for parking and staying there either. Hurt the local campgrounds bottom line? Not a chance as all 12 are booked full always.
Can't have fires of course or fasten anything to the ground or dump anything on the ground and the city puts some dumpsters for refuse. An RV must have it's own contained toilet facilities to park there and it's required.
The city has an ordinance code prohibiting RV's overnighting in store parking lots such as Walmart, Meijer, Home Depot, etc as they are a business owned parking lots and not controlled directly by the city. No overnight truck parking allowed either.
It works out great for all and has for decades now. Yes, the local police, county sheriffs, and the state police do cruise thru these lots am couple times each day looking for violators.
