Ugh. This place.
The good: The park itself is nice and the grounds are very well maintained. The pad sizes are okay. There's a laundry room, bath/showers, and workout room. It's alongside a levee with a walking trail and beautiful views. It's quiet - because it's not right next to the freeway.
If you only need to stay a few days, it's fine. Lovely location, clean, quiet, easy shot to the freeway but not right next to it.
The bad: Don't expect any extras, like a little park store with necessities or a vending machine in the laundry room with packets of laundry soap or even a coin machine. This place has a 2-desk office that feels very much like a sales office, and that's it. Any time you have to go to the office to check in, check out, or change reservations, it feels like you're always interrupting more important business. You're lucky if one of the people at the desks greets you and asks you what you want (not "hi, how can I help you?" - "what do you want").
The park has a very strict policy that limits your full use of the pad - they want absolutely nothing on or overhanging the grass - so that means you have to be super careful not to back your rig up with the rear end hanging over the grass, which limits the amount of parking space in front of your rig. (note that I said "back up" -- that's because the pull-throughs are reserved for rigs of a certain size, no matter what, even if your rig is only a foot or two smaller and there are at least a half dozen pull-through sites available) You also have to take care to make sure any slide outs do not end up over the grass. You can't move the picnic table onto the grass to give yourself more space, or put your lawn chairs or anything else on the grass.
They're so serious about this that other park guests watch you as you pull in and give you repeated warnings about the grass!
Which leads me back to the office personnel. I think guests here are paranoid about the grass and other park rules because the office staff is consistently pissy and bitchy, from the moment they first pick up the phone. We've been rv'ing for nearly 20 years and have never encountered such unpleasant and unwelcoming office staff at an RV park. The first time I reserved here, I did so by phone because I had a question I couldn't get answered online. I thought maybe the woman who answered the phone that time was annoyed that someone was calling instead of using the online reservation option. Or having a bad day. Whatever. Benefit of the doubt. Circumstances are such that we had to stay again, so for the second stay, I made reservations online. And then I had to change the arrival date, which I couldn't do online. Another super fun call with a super pissy person.
We were unfortunate enough to be stuck needing to stay there again. This time, I went in to the office to make the new reservation. I mentioned that we were checking out tomorrow, but needed to come back the following week. Bitchy woman behind desk #1 said, "no, your check out time was for the next day, not tomorrow, and since you reserved online, I can't refund you for that day."
Okey dokey then. Apparently reserving online doesn't make them any friendlier.
So, why do we keep staying here? Necessity. It's where we needed to be and even the KOA 15 miles up I-5 just seemed too far for our purposes. If there were any other decent place nearby, we'd never stay at this park again. If luck holds out, we won't need to again. read more
