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Always appreciate other points of view, but in our experience (full time for the past year with 27,000miles, 32 states, 113 national park units, 42 zoos/aquariums/museums and countless state parks, national forests, BLM all during covid...plus 2 yrs of holiday/summer travel pre-covid) that just was not the case. We almost always boondocked/drycamped with some national park and forest campgrounds here and there when there were no reasonable alternatives and never had any memorable problems. We loved it.
There are always compromises when selecting a setup and for us (family of 4 - two teenagers who are basically adult size) we preferred the space, which I’m confident others will also appreciate. We discovered our setup fits into tighter spaces than a pickup/suv pulling a 20ft trailer. Overall we’re shorter. It is no problem parking like a gentleman through two parking spaces, w/the bike racks, and still have room to spare. We don’t have to park perpendicular across several spots like most camp trailers do at the big box-marts. Yes, size is among many factors to consider when buying but so is comfort, convenience and awesomeness.
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