About This Blog

I was two minutes from our campsite in Tennessee when my GPS ran out of ideas.

We'd driven the whole leg from Oklahoma — my wife, our four kids, and a trailer that does not fit under low bridges. The route had been fine until it wasn't. Then, suddenly, we were staring at a clearance sign that was about two feet shorter than our rig.

What followed was one of those family memories that's funny in retrospect and absolutely not funny in the moment: me on top of the ladder, my wife inching forward on speaker phone, both of us holding our breath. We made it under. We did not make it under clean. Our satellite dome did not survive.

That was the trip that made me build RVRouteplan.

What I Was Actually Looking For

I'd been RVing long enough to know what the planning process was supposed to feel like. You open one app for routing, another for campground availability, a third to cross-reference your Thousand Trails membership against your Good Sam membership against whatever RPI parks are nearby. You do math on a notepad. You argue with your spouse about whether the site you found is actually in the membership network or costs extra. You leave a margin of error for low bridges and hope for the best.

None of the tools I found had the whole package. RV-safe routing that actually accounts for height and weight. Multi-leg trip planning that doesn't fall apart when you add a stop. Campground filtering by membership type, so you can see what your Thousand Trails membership actually gets you on a given route before you commit. Weather along the route, not just at your destination.

So I built it. That's the honest origin story.

Who This Blog Is For

If you own an RV — Class A, Class C, fifth wheel, travel trailer, van — this blog is for you.

Some of what we write will be about membership math: whether Thousand Trails is worth it for your travel style, how to stack memberships without doubling up on fees, how to actually get the ROI the brochure promised. That's content you won't find many places, and we think it's genuinely useful.

But most of it will just be about RVing well. Trip planning. Campgrounds worth the detour. Gear that holds up when four kids are involved. Routes that are scenic and don't end with you on top of a ladder.

We write from experience. My family spent six months living full-time in our trailer. We're still out there. The bridge story is one of many.

A Note on RVRouteplan

This blog is run by the team behind RVRouteplan — a trip planning tool built specifically for RVers. We'll mention it occasionally when it's relevant, and we think it's worth trying. But the blog isn't a sales funnel dressed up as content. We'll recommend gear we don't sell, campgrounds we have no affiliation with, and routes we loved for no reason other than that we loved them.

If something on this blog comes with a financial relationship attached — an affiliate link, a sponsored mention, anything like that — we'll say so. That's the deal.