No Overnight Parking at Interstate Rest Areas
I know a number of states do not allow overnight parking at the state-run rest areas along the interstates. Has anyone been asked to leave one of these locations during the night? We've stayed in them...
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We are travelers and not so much campers. When we are traveling, I may have chosen stops that we can't make. DW is usually driving in daylight, but after dark is mine.
We do use rest areas a lot, but they are a last choice as they are always noisy. We do nothing other than shut down and level the coach if it is needed. Then we walk the dogs and go to bed. We have never been told that we can't stay. If we can, we take up two spaces in the car park. That leaves the bid spaces for the trucks.
So, we were northbound once on the way through Tennessee and Kentucky and were way late for the scheduled stop, but there was supposed to be a rest area ahead. I was now driving, it was dark and running SA as a navigator. It said that there was rest area just over the line. I was real ready.
According to SA, I went right by.
I never saw the signs.
Was I that tired?
Well, there was no place to tired and there were no RV friendly stops nearby.
I was watching real hard for the next.
Then I saw an empty set of sign posts.
Then I saw where the ramp had been and they had plowed it in....
Well, (expletive deleted) what to do now?
I watched signs for anything and we pulled off the highway to park at a national chain country restaurant and took up two spaces in the empty lot.
Memory serves that was Kentucky, and we do our best to skip thought there now. If we are going north-south, we can be thought there without stopping at all, so that is just what we do.....
Matt
We do use rest areas a lot, but they are a last choice as they are always noisy. We do nothing other than shut down and level the coach if it is needed. Then we walk the dogs and go to bed. We have never been told that we can't stay. If we can, we take up two spaces in the car park. That leaves the bid spaces for the trucks.
So, we were northbound once on the way through Tennessee and Kentucky and were way late for the scheduled stop, but there was supposed to be a rest area ahead. I was now driving, it was dark and running SA as a navigator. It said that there was rest area just over the line. I was real ready.
According to SA, I went right by.
I never saw the signs.
Was I that tired?
Well, there was no place to tired and there were no RV friendly stops nearby.
I was watching real hard for the next.
Then I saw an empty set of sign posts.
Then I saw where the ramp had been and they had plowed it in....
Well, (expletive deleted) what to do now?
I watched signs for anything and we pulled off the highway to park at a national chain country restaurant and took up two spaces in the empty lot.
Memory serves that was Kentucky, and we do our best to skip thought there now. If we are going north-south, we can be thought there without stopping at all, so that is just what we do.....
Matt
