We have a small motorhome, 24 feet long. So parking isn’t as much a challenge for us as for the longer guys. When we put into a supermarket parking lot, we tend to park near the back of the lot. Not only is this part of our physical fitness program, but it allows us to be a bit more casual in the way we park. In other words, we usually take up two parking spots each way—front to back and side to side.
On city streets we look for two parking spots; in Mobile we fit into the white lines side to side and feed two parking meters to allow us ample room to exit the parking spot. So it’s not only getting into the parking spot that we need to consider, but also getting out.
The parking challenge sometimes occurs when we stop along the way to visit friends. Friend 1 in a Sarasota complex. The driveway is too short; going in sideways blocks the driveway next door. There is visitor parking; that works but we have to be out of it by 11 PM. Solution: We spend the night in an area RV park.
Friend 2 in a Fort Myers development. Can’t park in the driveway because it has a canopy over it, too low to allow us in. We park in the visitor parking, which isn’t quite long enough so that our tail is off the road. Solution: We are told to pull onto the grass. We do and no one complains during the four days we are there.
Friend 3 in a Boynton Beach complex. 
We can’t even drive the RV into the complex. Members can bring RVs in to load and unload. Nobody else. Solution: When we were here three years ago we found a storage yard about a block outside the complex that would allow us to park for a few days. Our friends came and got our luggage; we took the bikes off the back and biked to their house. No more. Now if we want to park there, we have to rent by the month. We find a storage yard about 12 miles north that has daily rates. We leave the bikes with the RV.
Friend 4 in a private home in Acworth, GA. Park it on the grass. Done.
It is the highly managed complexes that give us a complex. I know there are some communities that don’t allow RVs to be parked where they can be seen, even by neighbors. This does make it a bit hard to keep your RV at home. As for us, we could theoretically park it in our back yard but we have large, healthy trees and it’s a lot cheaper to pay for parking at a lot than it would be to take down the two 100+ year old trees because we killed the roots with the weight of the RV.
