Ephrata RV Park & Campground

We stayed at Ephrata RV Park & Campground in Ephrata, Washington. (Campground Reviews listing.)

Our last stop on our way home. Good to be back in Washington!

Dates:

  • Check in: 2025-09-03
  • Check out: 2025-09-04
  • 1 night

Weather:

  • Sunny
  • High temp 100°F, low 68°F
  • Little wind, gusts to 10 MPH

Noise:

  • Some highway noise
  • Occasional train horn noise (including overnight)
  • Little neighbor noise

Site:

  • #P23, pull-through, gravel
  • Didn’t need to disconnect toad, and didn’t, since only one night
  • Somewhat level site; a little high in the front; used air leveling, since only one night
  • Gravel driveway about 60 feet long by 10 feet wide
  • 10 feet to neighbors on both sides
  • Picnic table
  • Tall trees
  • Clean site
  • Elevation 1,240 feet, front facing SW

Utilities:

  • 50 amp power, conveniently located
  • 60 PSI water, conveniently located
  • Didn’t connect sewer until departure; good sewer connection, inconveniently located (2 10-foot pipes needed)

Internet (in usage priority order):

  • Starlink: 111-240 Mbps down, 9 Mbps up, 35 ms ping
  • RoamLink: 8-13 Mbps down, 1-3 Mbps up, 270 ms ping (RoamLink uses whichever is best of AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile)
  • AT&T: 3 Mbps down, 0.25 Mbps up, 85-235 ms ping (I have AT&T on my iPhone)
  • Campground Wi-Fi: not used

Amenities:

  • Garbage dumpsters
  • Pool

Our review on Campground Reviews:

Convenient stop off I-90

We stayed for one night on our way through Washington, and it was just fine for that. I don’t think I’d stay any longer, though, between the narrow site and the aroma of cow manure. The internal roads and sites are gravel, making it difficult to distinguish between the site and road edges, and if we were parked within the boundaries of our site. We camped at Ephrata RV Park & Campground in a Motorhome.

Campground map:

Map

An interactive map:

Our site:

Our site

Our site

Our site

Our site

Other sites:

Other sites

Other sites

Other sites

A tight site, but a fine place for a brief stay. We’d be happy to stay here again.

Travel from Missoula, Montana to Ephrata, Washington

We drove our coach 334 miles, about six hours of driving, from Missoula, Montana to Ephrata, Washington.

Here’s a map showing our route, heading west:

Map

This map showing timezones, as we crossed from Mountain to Pacific time (west coast best coast), and the state borders between Montana (right), Idaho (middle), and Washington (left):

Timezones

An interactive map, with potential stops pinned:

Fuel stop:

Fuel stop

I-90 West:

I-90 West

Clark Fork River:

Clark Fork River

Curves ahead:

Curves ahead

Truck stop:

Truck stop

Roadworks:

Roadworks

Rest area closed due to roadworks:

Rest area closed due to roadworks

Trucker info:

Trucker info

Welcome to Idaho and Pacific Time Zone:

Welcome to Idaho and Pacific Time Zone

Roadworks:

Roadworks

Elevation 3,069 feet:

Elevation 3,069 feet

Rest area:

Rest area

Welcome to Washington:

Welcome to Washington

Spokane:

Spokane

Spokane

Train:

Train

Rest area:

Rest area

Sprague Lake:

Sprague Lake

Train:

Train

Another closed rest area:

Another closed rest area

Exit to Quincy:

Exit to Quincy

Field planting sign:

Field planting sign

Field planting sign

Field planting sign

Arriving at our campground:

Arriving

And our site:

Our site

Jim & Mary’s RV Park

We stayed at Jim & Mary’s RV Park in Missoula, Montana. (Campground Reviews listing.)

This is our fourth stay here; our first time with a trailer on our Yellowstone trip, and in our coach the following year and the year after. It’s a convenient stop on our way home, and a very pretty park.

Dates:

  • Check in: 2025-09-01
  • Check out: 2025-09-02
  • 2 nights

Weather:

  • Sunny
  • High temp 92°F, low 60-62°F
  • Little wind, gusts to 10 MPH

Noise:

  • Some road noise
  • Nearby train horn noise
  • No significant neighbor noise

Site:

  • #A2, pull-through, gravel
  • Didn’t need to disconnect toad, and didn’t, since only two nights
  • Somewhat unlevel site; high in the rear, though might have been more level if parked towards the back; used air leveling, since only two nights
  • Gravel driveway about 72 feet long by 15 feet wide
  • 20 feet to neighbors on both sides
  • Picnic table
  • One big tree
  • Clean site

Utilities:

  • 50 amp power, a little inconveniently located
  • 60 PSI water, a little inconveniently located
  • Good sewer connection, a conveniently located (1.5 10-foot pipes needed)

Internet (in usage priority order):

  • Starlink: 56-118 Mbps down, , 50 ms ping
  • RoamLink: 6-7 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up, 200 ms ping (RoamLink uses whichever is best of AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile)
  • AT&T: 55-100 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up, 110 ms ping
  • Campground Wi-Fi: 10-14 Mbps down, 2-10 Mbps up, 13 ms ping

Amenities:

  • Garbage dumpsters
  • Gardens

See our previous review on Campground Reviews.

Campground map:

Map

An interactive map:

Our site:

Our site

Our site

Our site

Our site

Utilities:

Utilities

View of the office and entrance from our site:

View of office and entry from our site

Other sites:

Other sites

Other sites

Other sites

Other sites

See our previous visits for more photos. We still like this RV park, and will likely stay here yet again in the future.

Travel from Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming to Missoula, Montana

We drove our coach 329 miles, about five hours of driving, from Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming to Missoula, Montana.

Here’s a map showing our route, heading northwest:

Map

An interactive map, with potential stops pinned:

An interesting trailer:

An interesting trailer

Check-out box:

Check-out box

Crowd watching something on the hill; I couldn’t see anything:

Crowd watching something

A lone bison:

Lone bison

Thermal feature:

Thermal feature

Madison River:

Madison River

Leaving the park:

Leaving the park

Welcome to West Yellowstone, Montana:

Welcome to West Yellowstone, Montana

West Yellowstone

Hebgen Lake:

Hebgen Lake

Madison River:

Madison River

Ennis:

Ennis

We had originally planned to stay at Ennis RV Park, but decided to just push on through:

Ennis RV Park

Route 359 North:

Route 359 North

Truck parking closed on I-90 West:

Truck parking closed on I-90 West

… because they diverted traffic through the parking area due to road works:

Truck parking closed on I-90 West

Continental Divide:

Continental Divide

I-90 West:

I-90 West

Rest area:

Rest area

Wildlife escape ramp:

Wildlife escape ramp

Interesting rocks:

Interesting rocks

Arriving at Jim & Mary’s RV Park:

Arriving at Jim & Mary's RV Park

Our site:

Our site

Dashcams

If you’ve enjoyed my RV travel videos on YouTube, you may have wondered what I use to record them.

I use a dashcam, listed on Amazon as the “ROVE R2-4K Dash Cam Built-in WiFi 6 GPS Car Dashboard Camera Recorder with UHD 2160P, 2.4″ IPS Screen, 150° Wide Angle, WDR, Night Vision”.

I actually have four of these cameras: one in the coach windshield to record a timelapse of our travels, and a second one next to it to record real-time, in case of accident; one in a side window to record a timelapse of campground activities (which I occasionally post, but is usually not that excitng), plus a fourth in our truck, again recording real-time for accidents.

Here are the two in the coach windshield; the one on the left is the one used for timelapses, and the one on the right is for real-time (the box between them is the Mobileye sensor):

Dashcams

The left one is attached via Command Strips to ensure it remains straight:

Dashcam

Not the fanciest dashcams, but they get the job done.

Grand Teton National Park

On our sixth day in Yellowstone National Park we headed south out of the park, to do a quick scenic drive of the neighboring Grand Teton National Park:

A picnic lunch at Lewis Lake:

Picnic at Lewis Lake

Lewis Lake

Lewis Falls:

Lewis Falls

Lewis Falls

Grand Teton National Park entrance sign:

Grand Teton National Park entrance sign

Jackson Lake:

Jackson Lake

Jackson Lake

Signal Mountain Overlook:

Signal Mountain Overlook

Grand Teton peaks:

Grand Teton National Park

Grand Teton National Park

Grand Teton National Park

Grand Teton National Park

Grand Teton National Park

Grand Teton National Park

Horses:

Horses

Grand Teton National Park

Bison:

Bison

Horses chasing after a bison:

Horses and bison

Horses

Bison

Dinner at Leeks Pizzeria (a very long wait):

Leeks Pizzeria

Leeks Pizzeria

A bear across the lake:

Bear

Sunset over Yellowstone Lake on the way home:

Sunset over Yellowstone Lake