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To boldly go where no Prevost has gone before?
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We are in CHehalis at the Riverside golf course–they have an OK RV park. Heading down to Troutdale tomorrow for a couple of days, then we’ll be heading home.
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Arrived at the Sandy Riverfront RV Resort yesterday. Pretty tight place! Had to disconnect the car before we made a sharp turn into a narrow bridge with the resort on the other side. Lot of scrapes on the concrete before the bridge itself, so didn’t want to take the chance. Turns into most campsite had very tight turns also, with lightposts on each side. Got us into a site that had a wide parking area on the side leaving a good turn radius, but probably have to back out. Getting back on the Interstate, we have to go under a railroad bridge with a sharp right-hand turn. Will have to go into the opposing lane to avoid leaving parts of the coach on the concrete! Lots of stares–doubt many Prevosts come here, but also several compliments on the coach. Campers, with very few ecxeptions, are nice people.
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Per:
As you travel about, would you please add the accessable RV parks to the PC Map. That will help those of us who have not traveled your route …yet.
Enjoy your travels and keep us posted. Stay safe.
Fred
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The one in Chehalis is OK, and no problem with access. A little primitive, but great for golfers–right on the golf course. I’ll look at adding it. I’ll hold on this one until I see about getting out of here. I would hate to mark up that railroad bridge with my coach paint or parts–the Oregonians would not appreciate it! 😉
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Turned out geting out of the Sandy Riverfront RV Park was not a big deal as long as you go out through the town of Troutdale and go on I-84 at exit 17. The nav system had us get off at exit 18–don’t do it! Exit 17 works well, and you don’t have to worry about two tight turns.
Stayed at a very nice campground last night called Blue Heron RV Park in Hornbrook, CA. The park has nice, long and wide concrete pads–plenty of room for four slides if you got them. Most of the spaces face the Klamath river. It is 7 miles off I-5 at exit 789. The last 4 miles a little primitive, but paved–you should have no problem getting a coach through–if I can do it, you can do it!. But the campground is well worth the drive.
P.S. I’ve entered the campgrounds on the PC maps pending approval if anyone would like to try them out. -
OK, so we are all telling tales of some OS moments. Here is mine.
Several years ago while still in the hunt for a coach we visited Blue Bird in Fort Valley, GA. Now we were in our pick-up so roads were not a problem – then. While there we found a really nice peach and pecans place north and east of Fort Valley. Moving ahead several years, we were on a vacation trip through GA heading to Naples, FL.
So we find ourselves in Fort Valley and want to go get some pecans. We are in the “Classic” coach with our pick up in tow. Out this two lane, no shoulders GA road we go. There is the plant off to the left side of the road, we pass a paved road with no signs and it happens to be the entrance for coaches. Well too late for that and the next driveway is only for cars. No where to turn around, no gps and no local road map. Keep going the way we are pointed.
We finally come to a paved road to our right and I take it. Next we come to a fork in the road so we take the right hand fork since that would get us pointed more in the direction we need to go. A short distance later we encounter a section which is lined with Pecan trees on both sides. Going very slow and dodging overhead limbs while also watching the pavement edges right and left, we come to a spot where the road turns to snad clay and leads right down the classic southern drive to the manor house. There is also another sand clay path that turns off to the right, again in the direction we want to go. We take it and the trees disappear but now we have farm fileds and a farmer plowing with a tractor. I see him and a couple of minutes later look again and the farmer is not where to be seen. His tractor however, is sitting still in the field. I’m thinking he has taken a header having seen our vehicle back in the fields.
We continued ahead, who can back up, and finally come back upon a paved road. We take it and it leads us back to the road with the Pecans and Peaches place. We stopped in the coach/bus parking area, went in and bought what we wanted and then headed south for Naples.
I have no idea how far on that two lane road I would have had to travel to find a turn around area. I’m not going back to find out either!
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We got home on the 4th of July weekend after having spent a bit over a month on the road, and putting close to 6,000 miles on the coach–first extended trip. After the stay in Blue Heron RV park, we went to Grand Sierra RV park in Reno, Sam’s Town KOA in Las Vegas, Lazy Days KOA in Tucson, and finally in Van Horn RV park. In none of these parks we had a problem with power–the only issue we had with power was in the Las Vegas Motorcoach Resort, where we could only run two AC units until the inverters dropped from bulk charge to float. While we had several compliments on our 16-year old coach, and a lot of lookers, but we had no issue with any of the other campers, and we were certainly not bothered by anyone. Getting in and out of parking areas was never an issue, nor with trees, except trees on Boulder boulevard needed to be trimmed in Las Vegas. Parking spaces were not tight in any of the campgrounds on the trip, and some, like Sam’s Town KOA and Van Horn RV park had spaces that would accommodate a 45-footer towing a 25-foot trailer–one individual at Sam’s town had an Entegra with a trailer that was at least 25 feet. My point is, there is no reason not to bring your Prevost into a regular campground, you may meet some nice folks on the way.
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Here we are again in a place that hardly ever see a Prevost. Our friends are giving a tour of the soutwest to relatives from Germany, and we are at the RV village at the Grand Canyon. Mostly rented class Cs here, and a lot of people gawking and taking pictures of our two Prevosts. A bit of a challenge camping here, since we only have 30 amps. Our cooktop did not want to work on the power, but Raymond’s cooktop worked OK, so we cooked the potatoes there, and did the brats in a skillet at our coach. Twentynine degrees this morning–didn’t help that our Webasto is out–it needed a 40mm exhaust hose that had to come from Germany, and it didn’t get here in time for the trip. We can run three of our four electric heaters on the 30 Amps, and water heater is working fine. If we can’t get 50 Amps at campsites in Cortez (colse to Mesa Verde), and Moab (for Arches and Canyonlands), we’ll probably drycamp running generator. We try to stay in campgrounds, though, since they have two extra people in the coach, and the tanks fill up fast. Kind of nice not needing AC here, altough I miss the heated floors we would have had in a late model Country Coach. But we certainly do not regret buying our coach–we love traveling in it!
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Per, Jean & I just left the Grand Canyon the other day. We parked at the Grand Canyon Railway RV Park down in Williams, AZ and we took the train up. No difference about the lack of Prevosts. Out of all the sites (and this is a big place w/ over 124 – 50amp sites plus many others ), which were all filled, there was only one other Prevost in the park. I’m going to add it to the map. Williams,AZ is a hoot, especially if you are into Route 66.
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Bill I have stayed there many times over the last 30 years great place to stay and at the fairgrounds also
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Ditto on Williams.
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+2 on Williams, the train ride, and the local Williams Rt 66 connection. If you’re a Rt 66 junkie & headed back on I40, might make a quick stop in Adrian, TX (about 60 mi west of Amarillo). It was the midpoint for Rt 66 between Chicago & LA. Some unique photo ops available, and if the cafe hasn’t closed for the season, some really good coffee & apple pie…
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