Which Is Better In General: National/state Vs. Private Campgrounds? Options

[New Daddy]

Which is better in general: national/state vs. private campgrounds? Or does it really depend on the individual campground?

[jamarynn1]

I'd LOVE to stay in more state and national parks, but we have a big rig and it's hard to get in a lot of the public campgrounds. The one national park we did stay in was a tight fit and you could tell by the bark missing on a lot of trees that there had been some "close encounters of the scraping kind". We've always been able to manage the tight turns and narrow sites (our "16-point turns" have provided much entertainment to our fellow campers) but there's not much you can do about low hanging limbs (haven't lost an air conditioner yet, but it's been close). Thank goodness, more and more of the public parks are beginning to accomodate themselves to larger rigs and offering full hookups and even wi-fi and cable. When you're out on the road for five months at a time, you tend to want your creature comforts.