Stayed 2 nights. On day 2 I was bitten by a dog. After reporting it to the owners of the campground, I was assured the owner of the dog was kicked out for violating the dog policy. After getting medical attention and reporting it to animal control, I find out that the person and the dog never left. Found out they were seasonal campers. So money is more important than the safety of people and children that stay there. They also didn't have any vaccination records or rabies shots. I am now on a regimen of rabies vaccination because of that. The campground also told me they would email me the dogs vaccination records to bring to my doctor. Never got a hold of me at all. Found out everything from animal control. 0 stars! Don't need to be lied to just to benefit yourself. read more

One of the nicest campgrounds we ever stayed at. The site was very large and wooded. The staff was great. Our only regret is that it is not closer to our home. read more

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The infrastructure to include roadways, power, water pressure and sewer placement. Amenities & activities are sorely lacking. A lot of seasonal junkie sites. Sand pit with construction noise 5 days a week. Not worthy of a KOA affiliation and certainly not worth the price! Choose another park. read more

Owner unresponsive and ad on website presented a fully open campground but when we arrived there was a sign on the door that said closed for the season and envelopes with campers assignments. Called the number on sign and website to inquire about a few things needed like propane etc. never got a reply/ response. Owners have failed by either not caring or hiring a management team that is not handling the business for them. Either way it was a bad experience and false advertising. Great location but was a bad service experience. Wouldn't recommend the camp. read more

great people with a great place to stay. solid communication, spacious lots, clean showers, big dog park. definitely would go back to this KOA if we're back in Maine. read more

In 5 years of RVing I've never had serious reason to complain about a campground, but now I must. We booked a 3 nights stay here. Upon arriving mid July afternoon and setting up we quickly found our A.C. Unit was short cycling and shutting down and our power inverter shutdown stating 'low voltage'. Now this is a 30 amp, 120 volt circuit and we're NOT overloading it. Complained to the office. Maintenance guy shows up, says 'yup, voltage is low but the problem is with the electric utility and the voltage will come back up later in the afternoon'. We run on generator in the meantime. A few hours go by, no improvement. I complain. Owner says, 'lt'll come back up before dark.' 7:30 PM, voltage still approx. 112 volts and would drop below 100 volts while attempting to run our 1 AC unit. Complain again. Owner doesn't respond but instead has his young office girl call to apologize, stating there's nothing we can do. I talk to 3 other neighbors and they have the same problem. We leave the morning. The problem is NOT with utility, I've worked in the electrical trade for 45 years and there would never be a 15 volt drop solely due to a single A.C. electrical load. By the way, if you enjoy unimproved dirt roads with occasional but unavoidable mud puddles, please come here. read more

We expected amenities listed on their website- waterslide, pony rides, playground safe for small kids. The waterslide was inflatable which was deflated the whole time we were there, even if my husband hadnt found glass on the playground it wasn't appropriate for our (adventurous) 4 year old, no ponies, the pool was decent. Maybe with older kids/ on weekends where things are actually set up would be better but not worth it for a mid week stay. We left early. read more

Unbelievably rude staff. The experience I had here caused me to call their corporate office who told me they had no control over each individual KOA site. I will not renew my KOA membership -- I will never stay at a KOA again. read more

I am going to preface my review by saying that I have read reviews posted here and they are good reviews with short stays. Our experience will cover 5 1/2 months and will not be a good one. While I will agree with a lot of points made by the other campers here, clean bathrooms, hot water, nice pool and playground, decent activities for younger people and traveling families as well as a full range of services like propane, sewer/water/electric, honey wagon, and trash pick up. That is not enough to convince me to recommend this campground to anyone or ever come back to this campground. Our issues are a terrible lack of professionalism and customer service. As well as absolute rudeness from the owners and SOME of their staff. In addition the laundry facilities are poor at best. Washing machines smell and dryers take literally 2 hours to dry a load of laundry. As for the wifi, entirely unreliable and slow. We made our reservation here in Feb as a plan B option if we could not find housing in time for the sale of the home we were living in. Our intent was to only be here a month or two while looking for a house. Long story short, we did not find what we were looking for and about a couple months into the search we extended our reservation from April-Aug to April-Oct. Our first issue occurred when we hit day 30 of our reservation and needed to make a payment for the next 30 days (month to month site). We were asked by a staff member why we hadn't checked out. We went to the office to clarify our reservation. That should have solved that. It did not. Every month since then someone stops at our site and wants to know why we haven't checked out yet. We were even questioned by owner once and followed him to the office to straighten things out again. Even when he knew the mistake was theirs he did not offer an apology. In fact drove by me and made no eye contact. I was informed that they had someone else coming into my site that night. The other owner, Christine, stood in front of the computer, eyes glued to it and never made any eye contact with me nor offered an apology. I listened to her talk to herself and then I left her my cell number and told her to please let me know what was going on. I never heard from her. Another month, same thing, our site was promised to someone else. This past month a staff member stopped and again wanted to know why we hadn't checked out and we reminded her that our reservation was through Oct 3rd and that we would pay the monthly charge that day when we went by office. She said and I quote "your reservation runs out when the money runs out". A couple with two small dogs moved into the site next to us one evening. The following morning while I was outside with my dogs he stopped me, I presumed to introduce himself. Instead he verbally lashed out at me. He let me know how upset he was that when they showed up the night before all he could smell was my dog's poop (substitute explicative) I let him know how impressed I was with his nasal capabilities and that he had a wonderful gift to be able to tell my dogs poop smell from the other 4 dogs surrounding our sites. Shortly after while making small talk with Bob (owner) he mentioned that someone had complained about my dogs barking. I told him about my encounter with the nose guy and if the complaint came from him that it held no credibility with me and he should meet with the guy before he decides how valid a complaint it really was. He admitted at that time that my dogs hadn't been a problem and that he "drives by camper daily and never hears the dogs". Interestingly enough I never heard another word about our dogs barking until my site was given away and as stood there watching Christine stare at computer she stated "well, we have had complaints about your dogs barking". As if that somehow excused their repeated screw ups with our reservation. She could not offer me any specifics about this complaint at all. We were also told we could not be accommodated when asked for an extra black water pump out. We had a leak and looking to find source and fix it. We thought we fixed it without the pump out but the following weekend the same issue, when we asked again for additional pump out, the staff member asked another over the walkie talkie and their response was "that was their story last weekend". I have sent several emails to Christine at the campground website about one thing or another including clarification and confirmation of our reservation each time it's been messed up and I have never received a reply except to our initial emails. Keep your receipts for everything because their records are just as bad. To date we have not received an apology for any of the mix ups or rudeness. Why not leave? go somewhere else? We are staying in a borrowed camper and do not have access to a vehicle to move it without generous owners having to come from another state to move it. read more

The Koa was overall ok. It had spacious, level sites. The bathrooms weren't very clean. The washer and dryers were ok. There was a playground for the kids, dog park and lots of activities for kids. I been to much cleaner and friendlier ones. read more

We visited here last year. Since I am reviewing all of our recent campground visits I really need to add this to the mix. When I think of GREAT camping experiences I think of this experience. I have not felt SO RELAXED in years! The staff was professional and friendly. The owners (who live on site) are the nicest people I have met in a long time. The whole facility was neat and clean. The down side is that it is in the middle of nowhere but their activities make up for it. read more

Unfortunately we had been driving all day from Virginia and got here late. The office was already closed but they left us a map and a gate key outside the office. It was a little hard to find our tent sight in the dark. The bathrooms were clean and the showers were nice and hot. The next morning as we were breaking down our campsite (only passing through for the night), a nice lady came by on a golf cart and talked to us. She offered to take our trash for us. And even took our gate key so we didn't have to stop by the office on our way back out. Wish we could've stayed here longer. It seemed like a nice campsite and the people working here are very friendly. read more

This is my favorite campground in America right now. Since we are full time RVers, we see a lot, but few are this good. In fact, no others are as good as this one, and only a couple others even come close. The owners are extremely friendly and kind. They are the only campground owners who pointed out to us that we had points to use, worth three free nights. We felt guilty about using them when we found out that they were not reimbursed by KOA for this, because this is the ONLY campground that was totally worth its cost, which was low anyway. So, we extended our stay to help them earn a little more. The site is beautiful with a super playground, great trails (that were a little hard to keep track of in the fallen leaves, but that added to the wonderful atmosphere), and clean facilities. We had a site that was very wide - we felt we had the place all to ourselves even though there were lots of other campers there. There isn't much to do in the surrounding area without a bit of a drive, but the campground itself was a destination. It was hard to leave when we ultimately did. read more

I absolutely loved this place. The people are so friendly it's like staying with family. I didn't want to leave at the end of our stay, bathrooms were super clean, everything was top notch. I can't remember the lady's name but it was aunt --- a super fabulous 91 year old woman who was a total delight to talk to. read more

CLEANEST. BATHROOMS. EVER. PERIOD. (yeah, so clean I spelled period.) My husband and I love camping with our two boys and try to stay at a different campground every time. This is by far one of the best. Bob, the owener, greeted us within five minutes of checking in. Normally we are tenters, but this time we stayed in a cabin, and I must say, it will be difficult going back to a tent. The cabin was spotless and very close to a set of bathrooms. Since those bathrooms were only used by swimmers there was barley anyone using them all weekend... It was like our own private bathroom. The owner came over to see if we liked chickens.. and sure enough six chickens were following him. He said if we didn't like them he would put them away but we loved having them around (and less cleanup because they enjoyed the chips and popcorn that fell on the ground.) To say that my manly husband is afraid of spiders is an understatement which usually involves me searching the bathroom (yes the men's room) for spiders..... but there were none to be seen. Great pool.. Great playground.. Great staff.. And did I mention how clean the bathrooms are. Often it is hard to tear the kids away from the TV at home, but they didn't turn the one in the cabin on even once. Camp store was great.. Lots of good souvenirs but not a lot of groceries so stock up before you go. And for the women, Freeport outlets are six miles away...... Yay read more

Enjoyed our two-night stay at this KOA. Good activities going on, nice facilities and when the dryers werent working, we were reimbursed and helped out. Many of the spots are close together so make sure you know where you want to go, and be sure to be near a router if you want wifi, not just anywhere as we had very slow service. However, it was free which is nice. And there seemed to be only 1 shower house for the whole campground, but it was clean and nice to use. read more

Durham, Me KOA near Freeport, is a Great Place fun campground Awesome Friendly welcoming Staff, clean facilities nice people. We find ourselves returning again & again read more

My wife and I just returned from a five day vacation at this KOA. I'll preface this review by saying that I'm a BIG fan of KOAs and have stayed in many, many different ones in many different states. And with the sole exception of the KOA in Lake Placid, NY, I've never been disappointed by one. I've especially never felt compelled to go online and write a negative review of one. I'm not the online reviewing type. But the experience my wife and I just had at this KOA -- particularly with the staff -- merited a review from me. Firstly, I'll say that the facilities and grounds were perfectly clean and neat -- just the way a KOA should be. There were carriage rides, a pizza night and an ice cream social. All very nice. All terrific. The issue -- at least for us -- was the staff (with the exception of two employees: Deb and the ponytailed guy on the golf cart who cleans the bathrooms ... they're both salt of the earth people). I couldn't tell you who the proprietors are, as they never said hello or introduced themselves, even as my wife and I hung around the ranger station buying gifts for the kids and filling out postcards. On return trips to the ranger station to buy cups of coffee and additional postcards, we weren't even greeted with a hello. Nothing. Zip. Zero. Nada. I ain't the hypersensitive type. I don't usually care one way or the other if someone says hello to me or not. But KOAs are typically SO friendly, SO hospitable that this experience struck me as being weird. I mentioned something about this to my wife on our second day. She agreed but also thought we might be jumping to conclusions, particularly after having just been spoiled by the superb experience we'd just had in Cooperstown, NY, at their KOA (a campground that really knows how to take care of its guests and make them feel like part of the family). Okay. The third day of our stay at KOA Durham really brought it home. After spending a few hours hiking around Bradley Mountain State Park, my wife and I headed back to camp. When we pulled in a KOA staffer on a golf cart was in front of the ranger station. We drove by him and he hollered something unintelligible at us. I noticed he was following us on his little golf cart so I stopped and let him roll up to my window. "You NEED to slow down!" he said, in a smug, snotty, imperious tone. (Keep in mind, he's speaking to two adults here.) Was I going too fast? I doubt it. If I were, fine. I can handle criticism. But the tone and attitude on this smug little fat guy was WAY out of line. WAY out of line. I don't need to spend nearly 200 dollars to stay in a place that's going to address me (and my wife) as a moron. I shrugged this incident off at the time. My wife was more annoyed that this guy had such a lousy attitude on him than anything else. I told her to forget about it. An hour later I took a walk over to the latrine to take a shower. When I walked in there was an older gentleman -- a KOA staffer -- standing inside. "I'm STILL cleaning," he said to me. Once again -- smug, nasty. I apologized and said I'd come back later. No problem. But this began eating at me later that day after my wife complained about the awkwardness she felt while at the ranger station buying a cup of joe. She said the drone behind the desk didn't say a single word to her. No hello, no nothing. It seems to me that the staff at this KOA (and I want to again single out Deb and the guy with the gray ponytail as exceptions) view the campers with an Us vs. Them mentality. From the miserable little man on the golf cart who barked at me that I was speeding, to the crusty old man who was cleaning the bathroom, to the various drones behind the desk who never even offered a hello, to the nonexistent proprietors -- this KOA will NOT be getting anymore of my money. Not a single penny. They can sure learn a thing or two from KOA Cooperstown (and so many others) who know how to treat their paying campers. read more