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Old 01-26-2020, 12:39 PM   #11
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The main reason that I'm afraid to take the TM is that they have campsites that we could fit into, but they mandate that you have to be under 40' combined truck and trailer fully expanded. I measured the TM and truck and combined they are is like 44' fully expanded, but the combination is 39' towing. If anyone has to been to Yellowstone and camped there in your TM, I would like to hear from you about how strict they are on this policy
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I can comment only on Fishing Bridge, and only before the 2019 rebuild.

My experience is that in Fishing Bridge, all the sites require backing in from a tight loop road, so each site backs up against the site on the other half of the loop road. The sites are narrow, but each site is wide enough (barely) to park your tow vehicle beside your camper, if you are careful about how you position your camper. As I recall, the back end of each site was backed up by a log or big rocks as a stopper, so when you open the TM, the rear shell can hang out over the stopper. This reduces your effective length. And sites that backed up to each other are offset, which helps. Each time I was there, there were some HUGE fifth wheels in some of the sites, some of them protruding out into the access road a couple feet. No one seemed to do anything about it.

Fishing Bridge is not a fun campground because it is so tightly packed. But it is centrally located within the park (which is very large), and has hookups. Since we planned to spend all of our time exploring the park, and none of it sitting outside the camper, we put up with it. Your tolerance may be different.

I think it would be a good idea to call up Google Maps or Google Earth, and use the satellite view to see what the sites look like today. I just did, and you can see how the sites are arranged, how close they are, the parking for the tow vehicles in each site, and how many sites contain big fifth-wheels. I do not know if the 2019 rebuild was intended to space the sites out a bit, but it doesn't look like it. However, I don't think the TM would be a problem.

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