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folivier
07-27-2012, 09:36 PM
http://mississippistateparks.reserveamerica.com/webphotos/MS/pid151814/3/540x360.jpgHas anyone gotten to a campsite like the one pictured below and pulled in backwards in order to have a better view?
I can't imagine the view being better than looking out your huge windshield onto a lake?
My coach has a black tank opening on the curb side that is just plugged off but don't think it would be very hard to add a dump valve there. Or maybe buy another sewer hose and just run it under the coach.
Of course your door would open on the other side from the patio. Most campsites we have been at are backins and your view out of the windshield is of the street and other rv's. I've thought about pulling in backwards just to have a different view.
Then at Lake Powell we scored a great pull through on the end of the row and our view out the front and side windows was nothing but lake!

fulltiming
07-27-2012, 10:57 PM
Forest, we have headed into a back-in space several times. The last one that comes to mind is the campground in San Diego. The sites back up to the bay. Too much of a view to waste. My passenger side sewer has an air-operated dump valve on it so I hooked up my sewer hose to that side and used it. I did have to drag the power cord under the coach. For water, I just used the water tank and refilled it using to water fill on the passenger side.

tuga
07-29-2012, 11:42 PM
Forest,

I do that also. I love to see beautiful scenry in the morning looking out the windshield. It's what camping is all about!
And it is only a minor inconvenience to connect the hoses and electrical.

Kind of makes you wonder why the developer of the RV park didn't make the site a drive in instead of a back in!

fulltiming
07-30-2012, 12:10 AM
Some parks were designed by folks that 'assumed' most of the visitors would be in trailers (especially 5th wheels) where a view from the back is equal to or in some cases preferred over the view from the front.

The most stupid park development I ever saw had a new section under construction (it was a City owned RV park) and they had put the sewer connection smack dab in the middle of the area where the RV would be parked. That way no one could hook up to the sewer because your coach or trailer would be parked over it.

Ground Control
07-31-2012, 06:33 PM
We always put the windshield where the best view is and most of the time its to the rear of the site except for some oneway pull-thru's. Now, if there is no view we will sometimes back in.

Back in the fiver days we of course backed in to look through our bay window when there was a view.