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Plan my family trip

Dargo

Dargo

Like a bad penny...
Holy cow! This summer has gone by fast!! I need to plan out a 2 week motorcoach trip for next month and I need to plan it now! All I know is that we want to go out west and see Mt. Rushmore then maybe Yellowstone or Grand Tetons. Heck, possibly the Grand Canyon. I don't know. I just know I'm waaaay behind at planning this.

I know several places can't accommodate my coach. I need campsites that can take a 40' diesel pusher coach towing a vehicle. I don't have to have anything else, but it would be nice to have a tank dump and, if they don't allow generators, electric hookup. I can run on chassis power all night unless I need A/C. Then I'd need either a 50 amp A/C power source or the ability use my generator.

So there you have it. I'm wide open for ideas. Heck, if I have to, I'd even consider going to the Smokey Mountains but I'd rather go out west. My younger kids have never been there. They weren't born the last time we went. Ideas? Suggestions? Help!!!
 
Bryce Canyon is beautiful. So is the painted desert but you might not like the heat. Anywhere in the Dakotas is pretty or you could swing by Big Al's in Idaho. Pikes peak you would park the coach and drive your tow vehicle to go up.
 
Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon and Glacier, leave Glacier until last or the rest do not seem like much at all.

The best trips that we had when the kids were younger was just head out and do whatever, sure takes the fun out of planning though.
 
I did a similar trip a couple years ago.
Below is where we stayed and what we saw.
A couple thoughts.
I'd skip the stay in Vegas. Not RV friendly in that you're put in a parking lot that's incredibly hot.
We went as far south as Arizona. By time we got to the northern states, we were a bit too tired to make the extra miles to Glacier and Mt. Rushmore as each of them was an extra day drive outside of the loop we were driving.
I've underlined the sites I most liked.


We stayed overnight at:
Grand Junction, CO
Bluff, UT
Williams, AZ
Las Vegas, NV
Ruby’s Inn, UT (outside Bryce Canyon)
Provo, UT
Idaho Falls, ID
W. Yellowstone, MT (2 nights)
Cody, WY
Casper, WY
Cheyenne, WY
Estes Park, CO
Golden, CO

The bigger places we visited:
Arches National Park, UT
Moab, UT
Monument Valley, UT/AZ
Grand Canyon (South Rim), AZ
Hoover Dam, AZ/NV

Lake Mead, NV side
Las Vegas, NV
Zion National Park, UT
Bryce Canyon National Park, UT
Temple Square (Salt Lake City)
Antelope Island State Park (Salt Lake)
Grand Teton National Park, WY
Yellowstone National Park (3 days), WY, MT
Buffalo Bill Museum (Cody, WY)

Rodeo in Cody, WY
Frontier Days (annual fair/rodeo) in Cheyenne, WY
Estes Park, CO
Rocky Mountain National Park, CO
 
Cool. Thanks! I want to show our kids that we DO have beautiful places right here in our country. I've not been to Glacier before.
 
You cannot take the motor home through Glacier, you will have to take the dingy and leave the big one on either side as the roads will not take anything over like twenty feet or so.
 
Forgot to mention that... I don't recall if they restrict the big RV's in Yellowstone but do recall that I wouldn't want to be driving anything too big on a couple of the roads. I'm thinking it was the Firehole Canyon Drive and possibly the road between the Hot Springs and Tower-Roosevelt.
 
Yeah, I'm beginning to find that there are drawbacks to having a rather huge coach. There again, with the size of my family, a 20' travel trailer just wasn't going to cut it. It's 13'6" tall with the air ride and over 60 feet long when towing a vehicle, along with being the maximum legal width. I have to plan carefully at times.
 
You will just be parking and doing short hauls with your tow vehicle. It would be tough in some spots with a small coach or trailer as the roads are tight and steep at times. If I was towing I would probably still do the same thing.
 
Kwiens said:
Jackson Hole, Wyoming is nice!

Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

K
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I've flown over the Salt Flats, but I've been to Jackson Hole and loved the Grand Tetons. We stopped there after the last time we were leaving Yellowstone. It's beautiful there!
 
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