Advanced reservation???

I thought I would do a follow up post to our trip. We did not make any advance reservations, and did not have a problem finding a place to stay. Although we did not stay inside any of the national parks, partly because our truck and trailer was too long. (We found that out at Zion, it was over 50 feet) We decided to go thru Kansas instead of Nebraska, since our first stop was Lake Pueblo State Park. That was the only place we stayed 2 nights, the rest of the 2 weeks only 1 night at each stop. We left Lake Pueblo State Park on US 50 and went thru Montrose, and we did stay a night a Ridgeway State Park. (Nice) My wife did not read in time to turn on US 62, so we ended up taking 550 to Durango. (Beautiful views but definitely a white knuckler) We then took US 160 to Cortez, then US 491 to Monticello, then 191 to 95. We stayed the night at Glen Canyon National Rec Area. (I would not recommend this campground) We continued on 95 and went west on 24 to Capital Reef National Park. After we left Capital Reef we took 12 thru the Grand Stair Case (Another white knuckler but great views) to 63 into Bryce Canyon. We stayed a night at Ruby’s Campground. (Nice) From there we took US 89 to 9 into Zion Canyon. We stayed at a nice private campground just before the east entrance to Zion. (Nice) When we left Zion we took Us 89 to US 89A to 67 into the Grand Canyon North Rim, we stayed a night at the National forest campground just before 67. (no electric or water but ok) From there, US 89 to 64 to the Grand Canyon South Rim. We left the South Rim on US 180 and stayed at a KOA in Flagstaff. (Not very clean garbage in or site) We left Flagstaff intending on taking US 89A into Sedona, but they have a 50 foot truck limit so we had to take I17 to 179 to Sedona. We had planned on staying in Sedona, but changed our mind after getting there. So we continued on US 89A to 260 to Camp Verde got back on I17 to 169, and stayed at Quail Run Campground. (nice) (Did a quick jaunt into Prescott for a beer at the brewery.) From there we took the interstate to Casa Grande, and then home to Michigan. All total we drove 5300 miles, spent 113 hours in the truck, averaged 11 MPG and burned 479 gallons of Diesel, and it was less than $3500.00. It was a fantastic vacation.