Mather Campground Near Grand Canyon

[jsmall01]

Hi All,

Wanting to stay near Grand Canyon in a few weeks and really confused about Mather campground. It seems to indicate on website that Trailers must be under 21'. Yet you can have a 30' RV. We have a 23 airstream and f150 TV. Has anyone tried staying up there with your AS? Don't want to reserve something to just have them turn us away.

[rodsterinfl]

I am going to Mather Campground in May. I have a 25' Airstream and a 19' F150. I booked national parks last fall and learned that you want to find an available spot for the date- then go to details on the site. Look at driveway length and then look at driveway width. That will tell you a lot. I have Fir Loop #92. There is a fairly large Leprechaun c class in #92 I booked and it says 30' max. This might help. The curved driveways I believe allow for quite a bit, especially if wider so when unhitched you can angle the tow vehicle.

https://youtu.be/2x6qPlTKokw?si=MM_0Y35-93L0GWX5

[LNBright]

That's assuming that you're in the spot hooked-up: 21' of camper plus the TV, not just the camper itself.

FWIW: We haven't been to Mather yet; but at Indian Creek in Yellowstone, our spot was small enough that I backed our 20FB in with the wife watching the rear bumper of the camper to the rear rail of the site, and the nose of the truck was still in the road at that point: had to unhook, then back into the site beside the front portion of the camper, such that the awning would open over the tailgate area, with the truck's front bumper just inside of the site, right at the road edge. It was similar in Gros Ventre too: after putting the camper into the site and unhooking, I'd park mostly beside the camper (or, parallel to the road, in front of the camper), just to squeeze the TV into the site too.