Graceland's RV park is a pool, walking trails and rows of pads on 19 acres off Lonely Street, with the traffic on Elvis Presley Boulevard humming just past the gate. Rigs ease to their pads at 5 MPH while kids loop the grounds. The mansion tour fills the first morning, and the rest of the week spreads out from there into downtown and Beale Street after dark, with the same pad waiting at the end of every day.
A motorhome that sleeps six turns that pad into the family's base camp. Breakfast happens at the dinette, the worst of the afternoon heat goes to the pool or a nap with the air running, and nobody repacks a suitcase to go see the next thing. Memphis summers are hot and sticky enough that the hookups matter as much as the location, which makes spring and fall the easiest weeks to be parked here.
Graceland RV Park off Elvis Presley Boulevard
A parked week leaves room for one long day out. The Blues Highway runs south from Memphis into the Mississippi Delta, flat cotton country all the way to Clarksdale, and you're back on Lonely Street to sleep. Nashville is the bigger trip, and its own parked week near Opryland is on the Nashville RV page, with the rest of the state's RV trips on the Tennessee RV page.
Graceland RV Park requires reservations from March through October, so book the site before the motorhome. Its sites are full hookup with 30 and 50 amp service, just off I-55, and the bathhouse and laundry keep a week of kids' clothes in rotation. The park's pages don't post a maximum pad length, so give the office your rig's length when you reserve and pick the motorhome from the answer. For two people, the bluff camping at Meeman-Shelby Forest and the nights at T.O. Fuller State Park are on the Memphis campervan page.
Tom Sawyer's RV Park on the Mississippi at West Memphis
Across the river in Arkansas, Tom Sawyer's parks the rig on the bank of the Mississippi itself. Sunrise comes up over the water, barges push slowly along the river through the day, and in the fall the full moon rises over the same wide stretch. Between those hours there are nature trails and mowed fields to wander, and downtown Memphis is an easy run back over the I-40 bridge.
It works well as the second half of a Memphis week. The first nights go to Graceland while the city is the point, then the rig crosses I-40 to the river once everyone has had their fill of Elvis. The park offers weekly stays on long pull-throughs, on concrete or gravel, with 30 and 50 amp service plus city water and sewer. Reservations go through the office by phone, so call about a site before settling on the rig.
Spring trips need an eye on the river. High water can close the park anytime from December into early June, most often in April or May, and the park's river-stage page points guests to the National Weather Service river forecast and asks them to call the office when the reading nears 31 feet.
