Finally, other truck campers on the road.

[djc486]

DW and I went on a great trip to Glacier National Park. Will never go this late in the summer again. Too many people. We started here in Texas and hit Oklahoma, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. We always count the other Truck Campers we see. On a trip we made to Tennessee a couple of years ago we counted maybe 20 TC's. This trip we stopped counting at 120 Awesome! Still can't understand why there aren't more in Texas.

[djc486]

While we were there we over heard a boy and his mom talking about all the different rv`s. He told her "I want one like that Northstar." Sounds like a future truck camper to me.

[djc486]

skipro3 wrote:
Thanks for that info Bigimac. We are staying at the West Gate KOA of Yellowstone. Then, when we get to Glacier, we will TRY to spend a night a Summit Campground on Hwy 2 right on the top of the continental divide. It's only 17 camp spots and just East of the big memorial that is at the divide. It's about 50 miles into Glacier from there, so next morning we plan to go straight to Avalanche Campground inside the park and get a spot.

BTW, here's a website showing when the Glacier campgrounds fill each day. You can go back to any earlier date, even years ago, and see how soon it filled. It gives me an idea of what I might expect this year.

http://home.nps.gov/applications/glac/cgstatus/cgstatus.cfm

Skip, we found that website before going, very helpful. We spent all of our time on the east side of the park we find it to be more spectacular. We spent all of our time at two medicine and many glacier. My favorite is many glacier. Iceberg Lake was still half frozen over - gorgeous. Well worth th hike

[timdan94]

kerry4951 wrote:
Just spent 2 weeks in Pennsylvania State Parks. As usual we are always the only TC in the parks here in Pa. We stick out like a sore thumb. Its comical to watch the people walk by and stare at the TC. Most up here never saw a TC with a slide out so it draws a lot of attention. I cant imagine what it would be like if I had one of those big triple slide units. We show ours a lot to many curious campers. I tell my wife every time we go to a new site to get ready for the dog and pony show.

My wife and I get people asking us about our camper all the time. When we pull in we get stares everywhere we go. I have been seeing more truck campers this year, both in the campgrounds and on the road.

[Ski_Pro_3]

Thanks for that info Bigimac. We are staying at the West Gate KOA of Yellowstone. Then, when we get to Glacier, we will TRY to spend a night a Summit Campground on Hwy 2 right on the top of the continental divide. It's only 17 camp spots and just East of the big memorial that is at the divide. It's about 50 miles into Glacier from there, so next morning we plan to go straight to Avalanche Campground inside the park and get a spot.

BTW, here's a website showing when the Glacier campgrounds fill each day. You can go back to any earlier date, even years ago, and see how soon it filled. It gives me an idea of what I might expect this year.

http://home.nps.gov/applications/glac/cgstatus/cgstatus.cfm

Open the link, click on a campground and check that day for when it filled. For today, Avalanche filled at 12:02pm. A year ago today it filled at 2:37pm

We have a 200cc dual sport motorcycle we will use to tour around from, not driving the truck/camper around Yellowstone or Glacier. I hope to just scoot around traffic in the congested areas. Ha!!

[Bigimac]

skipro3 wrote:

djc486 wrote:
DW and I went on a great trip to Glacier National Park. Will never go this late in the summer again. Too many people.

Can you give a little trip report? I'm leaving for Yellowstone on Monday the 4th and then should be in Glacier on August 11th. Any advice? ....

We were in Teton & Yellowstone NP's a couple weeks ago ... typical summer madness - if you plan on entering yellowstone through the south entrance, a nice place to overnight, before facing the mobs, is Lizard Creek campground in Grand Teton NP - 1st come basis - get there around 11am (checkout time). Yellowstone is about 30-miles up the road.

We also do our souvenir shopping @ Grant visitor center - way fewer bus loads, more places to park & smaller lines.

This time of year, it always helps me cope with crowds to fairly often remind myself that our NP's are a gift "For the benefit and enjoyment of the people..." & most of "the people" show up in July & August ...

[F350mule]

kerry4951 wrote:
Just spent 2 weeks in Pennsylvania State Parks. As usual we are always the only TC in the parks here in Pa. We stick out like a sore thumb. Its comical to watch the people walk by and stare at the TC. Most up here never saw a TC with a slide out so it draws a lot of attention. I cant imagine what it would be like if I had one of those big triple slide units. We show ours a lot to many curious campers. I tell my wife every time we go to a new site to get ready for the dog and pony show.

You should try unloading it once, we did a couple years ago in a Pa state park boy you talk about an attention getter.

[kerry4951]

Just spent 2 weeks in Pennsylvania State Parks. As usual we are always the only TC in the parks here in Pa. We stick out like a sore thumb. Its comical to watch the people walk by and stare at the TC. Most up here never saw a TC with a slide out so it draws a lot of attention. I cant imagine what it would be like if I had one of those big triple slide units. We show ours a lot to many curious campers. I tell my wife every time we go to a new site to get ready for the dog and pony show.

[flht_db]

I am currently on a motorcycle trip to AK from NJ and back (currently broke down in Yukon on my way south). Riding from Jersey saw a few maybe 5-10 TC from east coast to SD. There the number increased. Through Montana quite a few more (though fewer vehicles in general).

Once I hit British Columbia, Yukon and then Alaska, I lost count. I did give thumbs up to most so if you saw a BMW that gave a thumbs up might have been me.

Told my wife we are heading back up here in a few years with the truck camper. As started the amount of National Parks and BLM plays part. TC's were set up all over though BC, YT and AK and usually with a great view and n neighbors.

[thetroutman4]

Got back from trip to Colorado last week. Stayed in the Salida to Leadville area. Saw more TC's than ever before. Saw more every day than I do in a year here in OK!

[homefor2]

Here in British Columbia campers are popular. Lots of off road opportunities and many places to camp free.

[Ski_Pro_3]

djc486 wrote:
DW and I went on a great trip to Glacier National Park. Will never go this late in the summer again. Too many people.

Can you give a little trip report? I'm leaving for Yellowstone on Monday the 4th and then should be in Glacier on August 11th. Any advice? I've driven through and camped one night on a motorcycle trip a few years ago, but that was in June and the campgrounds weren't even half full.

[K_Mac]

Two weeks ago on our way to Assateague Island, S.P., a Lance TC was in the Smyrna De. rest area. My wife say's wouldn't it be funny if they were going their also, looking at his tires I said he's probably going out to the beach in the Federal Park. Well, when we pulled into our spot,their he was right next to us,and across from us was was another. Now we had a mini rally lol. Yeah, here on the East Coast were definitely the RV minority.

[RZAR66]

Just finished a month long trip to Canada. Went through Oregon, Washington, Vancouver, Banff NP, Calgary, Montana, Idaho, Navada and back home to San Diego. Counted over 100 TC's and most of those were in Northern California, Oregon, Washington and Canada.

[F350mule]

We were in Wyoming at that time, seen a few in Cody, usually a lot at the Ponderosa C.G. Yellowstone as well. It seems as though more were on the road this trip.