Cross Country Trip: Recommendations?

[NJtoNC]

This september we are taking our AS cross country. If you are familiar with any of the state parks or campgrounds near here, could you please give us your advice? Also if you know of something on the way or at a destination that is a "cant miss" , we would love to hear it. thank you

Day 1 - leaving from Phila, PA

- Cuyahoga National Park (1 Night) - near Streetsboro, OH (i think this is a KOA campground that was recommended)

- Deerfield, IL - no campground needed. our sister trailer's owners have kindly offered accommodations for us.

- Sioux Falls, SD

- Badlands / Mt Rushmore Area - I think Custer, SD might be the right area or rapid city
Cody Wy/ Yellowstone / Grand Teton Areas (3 nights) - Fishing Village in Yellowstone and Coulter Bay near Grand Tetons ?

- Boise ID

- Chelmult, OR

- Redwood OR (maybe time to sleep.. depends on how much time we spend at Crate Lake only 2 1/2 hours to Orick/Redwoods)

- Orick, CA

- Sonoma, CA

- San fransico

- San Luis Obispo

- Las Vegas

- Grand Canyon / Zion NP area

- Santa Fe NM

- Oklahoma City

- Memphis / Nashville TN

- Roanoke, VA

- returning to phila, PA

[mouth012006]

not sure if you have ever used RV park reviews....we use them everytime we travel with the A/S...they have some pretty accurate advice on the parks there

[sempi2]

How long will you be one the road?

[BAB BMRZ]

http://www.airforums.com/forums/f289...sta-61458.html

We attended last year and are going back again this year.

Lyle & Margie

[NJtoNC]

Originally Posted by sempi2

How long will you be one the road?

just shy of 5 weeks... not long enough , i know.

[Charlie M]

Consider Oasis Las Vegas RV Resort. It is on the south end of the strip, a 5 star park, transportation is available to the hotel/casinos.

[NJtoNC]

Update:
will anyone be camping nearby these locations on these dates ? (location and dates are somewhat flexible). We'd enjoy your company if you care to join us!

Sept 3. Cuyahoga, OH - Parking overnight at Larry & Lou's - loudruff on airforums.com
Sept 4. Deerfield, Ill - Camping w/ brad and melissa (bredlo on airforums.com)
Sept 5. Sioux Falls, SD area
Sept 6. Mount Rushmore / Deadwood, SD
Sept 7. Yellowstone - coulter bay RV park
sept 8. Yellowstone - coulter bay RV Park

sept 9. Yellowstone - coulter bay RV Park
Sept 10. Idaho Falls/Boise, ID
Sept 11. Chemult, OR
Sept 12. Orick, CA
Sept 13. Sonoma CA Area
Sept 14. Sonoma CA Area
Sept 15. Sonoma CA Area
Sept 16. San Fran CA
Sept 17. San Fran CA
Sept 18. Montery CA
Sept 19. San Luis Obispo, CA
Sept 20. Las Vegas NV - Oasis Las Vegas RV Resort
Sept 21. Las Vegas NV - Oasis Las Vegas RV Resort
Sept 22. Springdale, UT
Sept 23. Jacob Lake AZ
Sept 24. Jacob Lake AZ
Sept 25. Santa Fe NM
Sept 26. Santa Fe NM
Sept 27. Oklahoma City OK
Sept 28. Memphis TN
Sept. 29. Nashville TN
Sept 30. Roanoke, VA

[maxandgeorgia]

Mt Rushmore: we stayed at a KOA close to Devil's Tower. Some shade, grass-dirt sites, but the tower seems to rise right over you and the Belle Fourche runs at the edge of the campground. Showing of the movie nightly, fun especially for kids. We'd stay again, though certainly not a "star" resort. What a grand trip you'll be having! Here's to safe travels and memory-making campfires ~G

[loudruff]

We had a great visit to a small state park just east of Nashville. Rustic, wooded. The sites are shady. It is called Cedars of Lebanon SP. We just parked for overnight and took the GrayLine tour of Nashville. We did not want to be in the midst of Nashville and it was an easy drive from Nashville. Out in the country. We did not need full hookups so this was fine for us. We had electricity and that was all we needed.

[48Bob]

There are NM State Park campgrounds on the road above Santa Fe going to the ski area. Don't know about what facilities are there. There are a couple of comercial campgrounds east of Santa Fe just off of I-25. The Walmart on Cerrillos Road at the south end of Santa Fe always has several campers in the parking lot. Bandolier National Monument near Los Alamos has a nice campground and some really nice cliff dwellings to see.

[HiHoAgRV]

Originally Posted by NJtoNC

...Sept 7. Yellowstone - coulter bay RV park
sept 8. Yellowstone - coulter bay RV Park

sept 9. Yellowstone - coulter bay RV Park
...

It looks like we will be there 1 week before you...
Perhaps we will cross paths as we head east / ya'll head west...

[NJtoNC]

HiHo - great, have you been there before? is this a good choice?
where are you off to after yellowstone?

[HiHoAgRV]

Originally Posted by NJtoNC

HiHo - great, have you been there before? is this a good choice?
where are you off to after yellowstone?

We went to the area in 2008
http://www.airforums.com/forums/f42/...8-a-41824.html
And loved it so much we are headed back! We're not planning on Yellowstone this time, gonna focus on Jackson Hole/Grand Teton Nat Park.

Rough plans are to arrive in the area some time the week of AUG 23rd and be headed home around SEP 2nd. Well, I can't really say those are "plans", they are more like 'general targets'...we have been known to wander a bit...
Kinda thikin' about Coulter Bay dry camping for at least a few nights

I'm sure we will be posting a new thread...

[Foiled Again]

Virginia Highland Haven - Airstream Only Park. Absolutely the best in the early fall.



If you like to do wineries - Tow your Airstream TO Chateau Morrisette and do the wine tasting - then sleep it off in the Airstream! After you wake up proceed to Va. Highland Haven! (Ask me how I figured THAT out! Hic.)

Paula

[Foiled Again]

You didn't ask but I presume you'll head up I-81 to Philly. I'd rather have a root canal without anesthesia. Nothing like playing dodge ball with tractor trailers using YOU as the ball.

Take the Blue Ridge Parkway or Skyline Drive as long as you can. It's slow, it costs, it's winding 2 lane - but it's a night at the opera rather than a drunken saturday night at a Del Rio Dogfight!

[NJtoNC]

If you like to do wineries - Tow your Airstream TO Chateau Morrisette and do the wine tasting - then sleep it off in the Airstream! After you wake up proceed to Va. Highland Haven! (Ask me how I figured THAT out! Hic.)

DO I LIKE WINERIES?!?!?!?

Have you SEEN the biggest portion of the tour (the coast of CA?)? our entire goal (ok, well my entire goal) is to do wineries. great idea! thank you.

and thanks for the heads up re: I 81. i believe our 2008 trip to New orleans we went via skyline drive. spent an hour behind a 31 or 34 footer going 10mph. HAHA. REVENGE!! it will be us this time going 10mph.

[HiHoAgRV]

Originally Posted by NJtoNC

...i believe our 2008 trip to New orleans we went via skyline drive. spent an hour behind a 31 or 34 footer going 10mph...

HEY That might have been ME!
Nope, I was the slow one in 2006
http://www.airforums.com/forums/f42/...lls-34996.html

I'm hoping you get some good camping suggestion...I'll be watchin' this thread also!