How High Can Your Levels Lift Your RV?

Old age is when Father Time has overtaken Mother Nature.

I don’t really need an answer to that question of how high can your levels lift your RV?.  I bet we all think about that comfort zone as our RV tires are lifted off the ground with our levels.  I also bet that comfort level is different for different folks.

Our site consists of several acres and no maintenance required!

On my previous blog I posted that we checked out a state park that was just a short distance from where we were staying.  The park was gorgeous and some sites were just huge.  Since  we need to give the northern locations a little more time to dry out and warm up, we were looking for another place to kill some more time.  With temperatures expecting to be close to 80 for a few days this week, we didn’t want to move too far.  Our preference was to continue hanging around instead of dealing with snow shovels, umbrellas,  long coats and heaters.

At first we were just going to stay put but then we decided to go for it.  It took us about a half an hour to get ready to move and arrive at our new location.  We paid for six nights and proceeded to a partial hook-up site on the Sandpit side.  This side was OHV friendly and also had the gorgeous waterfront view.  It wasn’t long until we discovered a little more about the site we had just paid for.  It was on a downhill slope.  Now this wasn’t just any downhill slope.  It was a real downhill slope.  This is a spot great for a 5th wheel but not necessarily a motorhome.  Our levels brought our tires off the ground and we still had a ways to go.  The host offered huge bricks and boards to raise us even more.  With so many other empty sites in the park we decided we didn’t want to do that.  We’ve had to level before by raising those tires up but this was just short of ridiculous.

View from our site.

Instead we moved over to a pull-thru on the other side leaving our ATVs parked in the site of the host.  Our new site is huge, huge, huge.  Not all sites are this big but they are all much bigger than any RV park we’ve been to.  We’ve had some great sites this winter (and some not so great sites) but this one goes close to the top of the good list.   Of course, I must admit that having beautiful sunshine and gorgeous warm weather sure helps. 

I think I really, really like state parks.  Maybe, I just like THIS state park.

P. S.  Duchess thinks this is Heaven!

-- Upriverdavid --  I did get your message about this park.  Thank you!  However, I had no way to respond directly to you.  Any other great parks on our way north?

‘Tis life on the road.

Entering Utah and Zion National Park

Nature is the art of God.   

West entrance Zion National Park

Leaving Las Vegas without any serious planning added a little uncertainly to our adventure.  Now I know many, many folks take off all the time without any idea of where they are going to end up that night or the next.  I usually like an idea and especially with a trailer and with Duchess.  Not every place will accommodate us.

We didn’t pull out until noon-ish but that was Nevada time.  By crossing over into Utah we would lose an hour but we only had about 120 miles to go. We knew where two Wal-marts were and thanks to a blog we follow, we also knew they allowed RV overnight parking.   Don’t you think that was a good start?

The terrain on Nevada I-15 was very different than what we had become accustomed to over the last few months hanging around Arizona and the flat deserts.  At times it seemed jaw dropping beautiful and especially as we dropped into St. George.  Oh my!! 

We arrived at the Wal-Mart early enough to park the motorhome and trailer and take off in the Jeep to check out  a few possible places to stay.  Most everything was pretty close together so it was an easy task.  I'm always amazed at how different a place looks online or on an advertisement than what it really looks like when you visit.  However, we did find an empty pull-thru site but discovered it was only good for the one night.  The next morning we had to change sites and the morning after that we had to change sites again.  Ugh!




It was kind of like musical chairs only it was RVs.  The manager of this park sure worked hard to accommodate us.   These people were absolutely, and I do mean absolutely, fantastic.  The problem was that there was a Tri-State ATV Jamboree in town and the place was packed with ATVs.  For us it was kind of exciting to find that out.

Once we’d moved on our second day we decided to take a little trip to Zion National Park.  We had another jaw-dropping experience in viewing the beauty of this park!  We wanted to go before the storm hit over the weekend.  The shuttle doesn’t start running until the 1st of April which meant we could drive past the lodge to the end of the lower road.  At places it was hard to find parking spots.  The place was packed with cars. 

WOW!  What else can I say about Zion just WOW, WOW, WOW.  Next we plan on viewing the upper level of the park.  This day it was only the lower level.  The road signs indicated it was the scenic route.  We'll see about that.

Sand Hollow State Park was beautiful too.  We did a drive-by to check it out.  The park was pretty empty at the time but it’s full over the weekend.

Can you imagine moving three times in three days and all in the same park? That’s what we had to do.  However, check out the size of this RV site.  Our park in Las Vegas would probably have turned this into four sites!!  You'll definitely hear more about our moves in a day or two.

We finished the day off with a meal in St. George at Cracker Barrel!!  I love their catfish!!  St. George is another very pretty town with a lot of red cliffs in the background.  We have discovered many snowbirds come to this area as the weather is normally pleasant during the winter.  However, we've also discovered that it is probably quite early in the year to plan on spending much time in other  areas of Utah unless you don't mind cooler (or is it colder?) temperatures and even a little snow.  Thus, we're not sure what our plans are but that does seem to be the norm.  What we do know is that it's colder north and warmer south.

‘Tis life on the road.