National landmarks and trucks

Uber baby!

 

I've only ever bothered to check the Lincoln monument at the rest area in Wyoming.

 

I know one time two of my drivers sent me a picture of two of our trucks with the St Louis arch in the back ground. Not sure ho close they got to it but it didn't look too far away.

Pretty sure you can get a truck to Mt Rushmore.

 

You can park at the Grand Canyon, just watch your mirrors when backing. (this is not a serious answer)

 

Barringer Crater/Meteor Crater is privately owned. Go their website and contact them to ask. You can't walk around the rim and you can't go down into the crater -- too bad, but that's their policy. They have an RV park, so maybe ...

Commercial trucking is prohibited in national parks and monuments unless you're making a delivery, but I've seen bobtail tractors at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon and, though it was years ago, I did bobtail through Colorado National Monument. The ranger at the gate laughed and said we'll call your truck an RV.

There's a thread here at TTR about places where you can park a rig. Used to be that you could park at the Battleship Alabama in Mobile; Google it. There's a WW2 submarine there and a pretty neat little museum. It's not free parking; I don't recall what we paid, but we stayed all afternoon. Awesome. There's also a motel there. Probably not cheap.

 

Bobtail tractors probably get a pass as they're no longer than a typical class C motorhome. They just don't want 75' tractor trailer units trying to navigate those skinny park roads lol.

 

PackRatTDI reminded me of this:
https://www.nps.gov/zion/learn/news/semi-tunnel-12-23-14.htm

 

I've parked a tow truck with 2 cars on it so I was around 50 foot or so long at meteor crater, fire and ice caverns,grand canyon,uss midway,uss alabama,uss lexington,wright Patterson afb museum. I've taken a 53 foot trailer to the Boeing museum in seattle,the Patton museum, wall drug, the corn palace,and down the strip in vegas. I've used Uber for many other things or bobtailed after securing trailer. All I've ever done is parked where the tour buses park after checking to make sure it was OK to do that by calling ahead

 

In 2011 I made a delivery in Tombstone Arizona to their School. I asked my FM if I could get a reset and stayed there for a weekend. I parked my truck on along a back street and walked to and checked into a hotel behind the oriental saloon. I had a blast and did not spend much money either. I did call the town marshal though and asked about parking and told them where I would be, no problems.