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It maddens me to no end after a 10 hour drive to arrive at the fort an hour after check in time only to be told that the preassigned site is not ready. grrr.. The last time we arrived they told us the site wasn't ready at 3:30pm. Instead of parking in overflow we drove down to where the site was to check it out to find it was completely empty, and looked to have already been cleaned off by the cleaning crew. In fact about a quarter to a third of the sites in the loop were unoccupied. I called the front desk and asked them if we could just park it since it obviously wasn't occupied. They made me wait on the phone and then a Fort Ranger came around to check it out while I was on hold. As soon as the Ranger passed the spot the front desk took me off hold and said it was okay to park it.
On another trip to St. Andrews State Park in Panama City we drove down a couple hours after check in and found our reserved site was occupied, on a holiday weekend and no indication that they were planning to evacuate the site any time soon. We went and tooled around the rest of the park to find a space to park in overflow and the whole parking lot was pretty much full so we had to shoehorn our rig at the Jetty parking lot and check out the beach for about a half hour or so, thinking surely they would leave (after all, there's about 3 hours gap between checkout and check in)... nope! Still there! Went to the ranger station and told them about it and they said give us a little bit, so we left our camper and went to get a bite to eat, came back and they were finally gone. About three hours total after we arrived.
 
 

if you got the 4714 from the tire in the indented part near "DOT" that means they were produced the 47th week of 2014.  If you plan to move up in size and rating, make sure your wheels can handle the the max pressure of going to load range D.  My wheels can't for example, on the inside of the wheels there is a stamp that says not to exceed 55 psi.  The  Carlisle Load Range C tires I put on have a max cold psi of 50.  I believe Load Range D tires have a max psi of 65.  It was drilled into my head from my drag racing days to drive slow and keep the max cold psi in the tires and make sure the wheels could handle the max psi for the tires.
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Several years ago a guy I knew upgraded to LRD without getting new wheels to match the psi.  So, he only inflated to 50-55 pounds.  Plus he didn't drive under 65 either.  So, that link above should be what happened to his trailer when the tire blew.