Good preferred site for a 40 ft 5th wheel (for a senior citizen new to driving an RV)

[disney4dan]

I can see this starting a whole new category on YouTube. We frequent a lot of older state campgrounds up here for weekend trips, and it's amazing how big the crowd gets when people pull up with something over 25 feet long. Seems our older state parks were originally created with the tenting crowd in mind, or those with pop-ups. Luckily for me, my oldest son has lots of experience helping guide me through some really tight situations. DW frequently goes to the exact spot where she can not be seen as I angle the trailer into the site. Probably the best place to be ! Luckily, DS 15 knows where to stand so that I can see him in either the mirrors or through the back window, and knows how much time/distance it takes to turn the TT. Helped me back into a site once where there were branches scraping both sides of the trailer and the entrance to the site was about 50 feet to 60 feet (ended up being a great, private site, but miserable to get in and out of).

 

[nascar-j]

I'm sure there will be someone around to help out your parents when they get in. I go to a lot of races. There are about 15-20 of us that meet up at most tracks. One of the group has a 44 ft American Dream MH that he drives in from SC. When he shows up, he stops in the middle of the road/lane, finds one of us and says, "Which one of you wants to park this thing for me?" He says he's fine going forward, just can't back it to save his life. So, there's a couple of us that have driven big stuff and we jump in and back it to whereever he wants... And then we give him grief for the rest of the weekend.

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[ColleenFL]

The loops are very tight to manuver around in a big rig some more so than others, the key is to take it slow and take your time. I hope your dad has experinece in backing up a fifth wheeler it is differnt than backing up a class "A" or "C". I have done both. Try to get one of the pull throughs if not I am sure someone will help. We have a 40' Class "A" and one of our trips the reservaion guy said we can put our trailer (18') right on the site, wrong was he we were in a very very tight loop I think it was loop 300 everyone was watching us drive in with our trailer attached looking at us like we were nuts only to find out not only would the total of approx 58' would not fit they were wondering how we would get out of there. Well we are very experience and did so with ease without taking out any tree limbs along the way and took our trailer right to the parking lot, it was very tight backing into our site and will not stay in this loop again we were just to cramped. So I can only imagaine what it would have been like for someone who has very little experience probably would have had a heart attack. The guy at the reservation booth must have been new.