I only make reservations for the final destination. My one night stands are either the RV area of truck stops or Walmart, something close to the interstate.
The closer you get there you might want reservations. If I owned an rv park, all sites would be reservable. Makes more business sense to me. Get it full and get the money when you can.
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vosj235 wrote: I'm new at this------how safe is it to head from Seattle towards Yellowstone wth no reservations?
We are self contained, but would rather plug in-----till we get a little more experienced.
It wasn't clear whether your were asking about Yellowstone NP or places en route. For en route, I would say you will have no problem finding RV parks available without reservations. Yellowstone, OTOH, in summer is a different story.
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vosj235 wrote: I'm new at this------how safe is it to head from Seattle towards Yellowstone wth no reservations?
We are self contained, but would rather plug in-----till we get a little more experienced.
Just note that if you want to be IN the park, Fishing Bridge is the only CG that has hookups.
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The only reason not to make a reservation is because you are not sure where you want to stop, right? If you know where your headed, then it makes sense to make one. We fulltime and always make a reservation. It's no fun to pull a 30 ft TT around looking for a spot or to settle for one that doesn't meet our needs. After driving all day I like to know I have a place waiting. With internet reviews it's pretty easy to scope out your options.
falconman wrote: The only reason not to make a reservation is because you are not sure where you want to stop, right? If you know where your headed, then it makes sense to make one. We fulltime and always make a reservation. It's no fun to pull a 30 ft TT around looking for a spot or to settle for one that doesn't meet our needs. After driving all day I like to know I have a place waiting. With internet reviews it's pretty easy to scope out your options.
Amen...and if you have kids with you it's peace of mind that you aren't sitting in a parking lot or rest area.
It's perfectly safe. It looks like about 700 miles, so if you're going directly there that's only one overnight stop. Your options for reservations and hookups are likely commercial parks,state parks and commercially run national forest campgrounds and I have no idea what may be along your route.
I rarely make reservations no matter where I go or when. The very few times I do, I make them the afternoon before I stop when I know where I'll be. I don't recall even not being able to get a site. But even if you struck out, there's a lot of national forest in Idaho, you could dry camp in a campground or just boondock. After all the way you get experience dry camping is to dry camp.
I have the advantage of pulling a small TT, 16', so if there's an empty site anywhere I can probably get in it. Yours is somewhat bigger and you're not as flexible, but you should still have a lot of options. If you want hookups in the park, your only choice is Fishing Bridge. It's not a campground, more like a storage yard for big RV's. But Yellowstone is huge and it has the advantage of being inside the park, which reduces the driving.
We are NOT detailed in our travel plans and only start with major objectives.
One goal is to teach critical thinking to the kids when on road trips. Planning is important and research is done before leaving but the amount of NEW information to factor into set plans is huge.
They need to be able to think on the fly with route planning and the stops so they can get direct feedback on the validness of their thinking behind fast decisions.
I teach to make up ones mind fast and never change it UNTIL/UNLESS one gets new information to act on.
Being self contained gives one a lot of options unless one is inside of Yellowstone we learned.
One old enought to have access to a RV knows what level of planning works best for them and should act on that knowledge.
The first five trips is more learning than most anything else we found. If detailed advanced planning enhances the experience then do it. If detailed planning kills the experience then do not do it. We find some of both are needed but the spot where we will sleep is typcially a liability instead of asset.
Listening to the biases of others can kill critial thinking skills. I can live with my own mistakes better than those of others when it comes to advice.
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