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Planning a Trip to Nantucket
We're planning a trip to visit our granddaughter on Nantucket in October.  We'll leave Michigan and camp a few places on the way and then stay at a campground near Nantucket.  The ferry to Nantucket doesn't carry RVs.  They have three off-site parking lots near the ferry.  We were thinking of parking our LD in one of those lots and then use our bikes to get to the ferry and then use them to get around on the island.  Has anyone stayed at any of the campgrounds near Nantucket?  Have you parked your RV in one of those off-site parking lots?
Glenn & Joan Lambert
Redford, MI
2017 27' Mid-Bath
Re: Planning a Trip to Nantucket
Reply #1 –
So we just returned from our trip to Nantucket.  We left Michigan on Oct 12, and stayed at a few campgrounds along the way.  Our longest stay was at Hampton Beach State Park in New Hampshire (six days).  We arrived on Cape Cod on Oct 23 and planned on taking the Ferry over to Nantucket in the morning.  We found out that one of the three parking lots the Ferry service allows for large vehicles (like RVs) was closed for the season.  So we rented a car and drove it and our LD to Old Chatham Road RV Campground in South Dennis.  In the morning, we drove the rental car and parked in one of the lots and took the high-speed Ferry over to Nantucket and stayed at a B&B for two days.  We were told that the slow-boat passenger/vehicle Ferry doesn't transport RVs.  Yet, as we were boarding the high-speed Ferry, I saw a Class A driving out of the just docked passenger/vehicle Ferry.  It must have had a special dispensation.  Our grand-daughter drove us all around Nantucket.  Though it was end-of-the-season, there were places still open.  The weather was great and so were the beaches.  The day we left on the Ferry back to the mainland was the day the Bomb Cyclone Nor'easter arrived.  It was quite the ride back to the mainland!  Later that night, the power went out at the campground (and for most of the Cape) and a giant branch blew down and came very close to hitting the back-end of our LD.  In the morning, we drove into town and spent the day and that night in a Trader Joe's parking lot - away from trees and power lines - while we rode the storm out.  We stayed a few more days at the campground after the power was restored.  And we meandered back to Michigan.
Glenn & Joan Lambert
Redford, MI
2017 27' Mid-Bath
Re: Planning a Trip to Nantucket
Reply #2 –
Glenn and Joan-

Thanks for the trip report. You've given me a few ideas for future trips.

Happy to hear your LD was not damaged in the storm.

It's no surprise some things were closed; after Columbus Day weekend many New England tourist businesses close for the season. I don't know how they get the sidewalks to roll up, but they do.   ;-)

Mark H.
Former owner, 31-foot gas Class A
Former owner, 1997-8 mid-bath