ReneeG wrote:
Mbryson - thanks for the quick reply. I actually posted an inquiry on this resort and got back some pretty bad replys - RVparkreview was also bad. Was it easy to get around with your long TT? What about mosquitos - are they bad? We may just drive up and check them out. Thanks.
Well, we did have a few issues. Some with the park, some with the skeeters and some with other guests. We've never had an issue ANYWHERE we've camped and I'm quite land use conscious. We have kids and dogs and they were supposedly welcome there.
Getting my trailer in there wasn't too bad. The fiver behind me we had a hell of a time getting in there (driver is quite experienced (spotter not so much), but it's a new trailer to them--tight spot, though), but we got him out EASY with my help and I tried to teach the spotter a little.
We pretty much had to deal with camp staff at least once per day dealing from some complaint from a neighbor or something?
We had a complaint that the kids were throwing rocks at chipmunks the first night. OK, they're kids, we didn't tell them NOT to, but they wouldn't fess up to that even after we had a chat about that (normally they would) and it's not a big deal to me. Good luck hitting a chipmunk with a rock. We told them they'd have to stay within our circle of four trailers and find stuff to do within that for the rest of the week unless they were accompanied by an adult somewhere else.
All four of our group have little kids (11-2 years old). We're pretty conscious about not offending people without kids and dealing with the kids' safety and what not.
One of the guys was SEVERELY chastised in the dark by someone about driving too fast and I didn't notice his speed or anything, but I doubt he was going too fast. He was backing his truck up with kids around. I can't imagine he was flying around. 5 mph is too fast and the posted speed which I think is quite reasonable for dust and safety reasons?
Skeeters were pretty bad, but we're right on the edge of a lake. I wonder if they could install some of those propane skeeter attractors around the site and fix that, though.
One of the dump pipes upper fittings in our group's sites wasn't even glued to the riser so we had a bit of a spill when we first started dumping....at least it was galley water and not black tank.
If we do the Jellystone thing again, I think we'll be looking for another park. There was one in town (just off Yellowstone Ave.) over by the hardware store that looked quite nice and roomy (no idea on pricing or anything else, just looked nice as I drove by). I like to be "remote", but for how often we ran to town, I'd have just as soon been in town.
OK, so maybe the park did suck.....;) Seriously, the staff did seem OK, but maybe a little on the "camp nazi" side. I've had worse, though. They never did get real grumpy with us, though. I think they were just trying to appease the complainers, whomever they were.
I had a good trip, though. I'd do it again, but likely at a different park. I'm angling for the Grand Canyon next year, though.