The 10 BEST State Parks in America for RVing
The 10 BEST State Parks in America for RVing
On today’s episode we take you around the country with us to explore the top 10 BEST State Parks in America for RVing. We visited 40 states and traveled more than 16,000 miles with our RV in 2018. During that time we stayed at more than 100 places ranging from RV resorts to Walmart parking lots and everything in between. Almost every single state park we camped in was incredible, so we challenged ourselves to pick our ten favorite. We even have a bonus entry at the end of our list – a National Park that we were able to fit our 37′ rig into!
Let us know your favorite state parks in the comments! If you’ve stayed at any of the ones on our list, let us know: what did you think?
State Parks mentioned in this episode:
Blackwater River State Park, FL
Lake Havasu State Park, AZ
Henrys Lake State Park, ID
Elephant Butte Lake State Park, NM
Brantley Lake State Park, NM
Collier Memorial State Park, OR
Pleasant Creek State Recreation Area, IA
Lake Livingston State Park, TX
O’Leno State Park, FL
Hamlin Beach State Park, NY
BONUS: Belle Fourche River Campground at Devil’s Tower, WY
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Elephant Butte is beautiful. Went to surprise my mom for her birthday, a solo full-timer at the time, there about 15 years ago. TRC aka, Truth or Consequences, NM is a quant town. Saw quite a few jackrabbit in the park also.
Your top 10.
You were about 20 min away from where we are home-based out of in Iowa! HA. They are closing that Nuc plant btw. 😉 Iowa really is beautiful. All of these look amazing! Hoping to check it out soon! – Melissa
Vogel State Park in Blairsville, Ga. in North Georgia has been voted the best State Park in Georgia many times . It is great and the staff is wonderful. Beautiful scenic views . Very kid friendly . It’s our second home .
What’s the length limit at most National Parks?
Great vidio
I love your videos there very helpful please keep them coming where planning to start your full time RV living in 01/2020 this video will help when my hubby and I start our adventure thanks so much.
Here is my experience with Oakwood lakes state park https://youtu.be/G10OQgQ76ts
Danforth bay baby the bluffs!
You said comment our favorite star parks. Mine is top sail hill state preserve in Florida.
Thanks for all the suggestions. We were just talking about finding some state parks.
I video places around the north Georgia mountains. I love your set up and intro. Folks like you dont just show cool stuff but help me to learn and grow too!
Very nice 😊
Thank you for the State parks idea.
Planning to rent an RV for next summer so these suggestions gave me great motivation on how to plan our trip. Thank you for the video! ❤
El Paso ❤️ we go every weekend to elephant butte
We are buying out first RV, we were mainly tent campers in the past, got tired of setting up tents. Going to use your list as a starting point for a traveling bucket list if you will. Next summer of 2020 we are going to try to get out to devils tower. Thank you for sharing. Subscribed to you as well
Yall need to try Gulf state park in alabama
Great video! We will have to check out some of these for our next adventure! … hate it didn’t see this before our trip… lol 😆
How much are stare parks a night?
Try Buckskin mountain state park Parker AZ. Right on the Colorado river beautiful and relaxing
In my backyard of Wisconsin is Point Beach state park. Each site is roomy and surrounded by trees, so you have privacy. It sits right on lake Michigan so a climb over the dunes gets you on the beach. Be forewarned though, Lake Michigan is cold and is only swim-able from July 1st thru Sept 30th. Although in the forest, it is near many attraction near Green Bay, so a good place to stay and visit.
Thank you!! Awesome information!! We too travel with a 37’ pull behind!! Both retired she’s living life!!!
Please record inside it’s too hard to hear outside with traffic‼️😬😬😬
Incredible beaches campgrounds: Gulf State Park (Alabama) is incredible and so is Topsail Hill (Florida)
Whenever you make your way to Texas again you have to check out Padre Island National park. We were able to camp on the beach with our 43 ft 5er. It was Amazing! It is boondocking, but you have nice sites directly on the gulf with picnic tables and a bathhouse. Also, just a few miles away at Mustang Island they have campsites with hookups at the state park. We absolutely love it in that area! We don’t make YouTube videos, but we have been traveling with our kiddos for years due to my husbands job requiring 98% fulltime travel. I’m loving your videos! Particularly all your rv show videos. Most of the youtubers will just create one rv show video, with just a few tours of their favorite rigs. I loved that you guys showed idk, like 30 rigs lol.
You guys are so INSPIRING! Way to go!
If you come to Shreveport Louisiana you need to stay at Cypress state park there is hiking and a great zoo with beautiful peacocks the kids would love it.
We love your channel! We are part time RVers. You guys are an inspiration to us! We just started our channel. It’s been so much fun! Looking forward to all your new videos!
What would be the best size of trailer that would not be too long, but not to short?
Great video guys. My wife and I go full time RVing in April. Our list of mu go to places just keeps getting longer and longer. That is a good thing by the way. Haha. Thanks for sharing.
Nice job guys. However, you do realize what you think is nice because of the kid-friendly areas, or number of playgrounds is NOT appealing to many of us. Kid-friendly would be a big zero.
Great info– thanks!
I’m sorry, Snow’s BBQ is in Lexington Tx
If you haven’t been there, try it
It’s very good 😋
We have 28 and we want to go to 21. Thanks for sharing 🌷
In Wisconsin, there’s a couple of state parks you should check out. One is Devils lake state park. Another is Mirror lake. If you ever get to Devils lake, it’s a beautiful park. If your kids love trains, you might see one come through the park. There is a freight line that comes through the park.
Hi guys, Thank you . We need young families like you sharing good camping info. We’re retired and have been to a few of your favorites including volunteering at Henry’s Lake for 2 summers. You are giving us and most importantly your family a positive US experience. Experience is an education that you cannot put a price on. Keep it up you are appreciated. Rich, Deb, Sheppy, Jackie, Buttercup, and “Henri”
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Try farragut state park in north Idaho because it was a old navy base during ww2
Wow that was very informative. We like knowing about all these state parks for so cheap.
We are new to RVing and You tube but we just stayed a two great state parks in Arkansas. Villiage Creek and Lake Degray. Highly recommend if you get to Arkansas. Look forward to checking out some these in video.
Hello! Just because a subscriber. We are also a family
of 5. Looking to do our first RV tour in June. Going to stick to Florida since it’s our first time. Can you share your Florida road trip? Thanks!
Check out Fort Stevens State Park near Astoria, OR
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Is Lake Livingston State Park near the little town Livingston,Tx
When ever we are in Texas we always stop at Snow’s BB
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Wyoming would be my favorite vacation state..
Shout out for Nevada state parks. Here’s why: anyone can buy an all access annual pass. It costs about $200 per year but it allows access to the state parks plus FREE camping in all the state parks that offer camping. Many state park systems only offer passes for residents and/or their passes don’t include camping, so this is a really great deal. If the campground has electricity or other hookups then you have to pay an extra $10/night. Most campgrounds are first come first serve and there’s often a 14 day limit. That is really cheap camping in beautiful, safe locations.
Thank you for this list. Looks like some super parks to stay in.
Have you ever stayed in Letchworth State Park in New York that was nice.