We stayed at Bakersfield KOA Journey in Bakersfield, California. (Campground Reviews listing.)

We do like the convenience of KOAs for one-night stops. This was another fairly fancy one, and we appreciated the on-site restaurant.

Dates:

• Check in: 2025-10-31
• Check out: 2025-11-01
• 1 night

Weather:

• Sunny
• High temp 78°F, low 52°F
• Negligible wind, gusts to 6 MPH

Noise:

• Nearby road noise and sirens
• Distant train horn noise
• Some neighbor noise

Site:

• #136, pull-through, gravel
• Didn’t need to disconnect toad, and didn’t, since only one night
• Used air leveling, since only one night
• Gravel driveway about 105 feet long by 16 feet wide
• 12 feet to neighbors on both sides
• Picnic table
• Tall trees, too close to the couch
• Clean site
• Elevation 360 feet, front facing NE

Utilities:

• 50 amp power, a little inconveniently located near the front of the site
• Didn’t hook up water or sewer

Internet (in usage priority order):

• Starlink: 40-60 Mbps down, 15 Mbps up, 25 ms ping
• RoamLink: 7 Mbps down, 7 Mbps up, 120 ms ping (RoamLink uses whichever is best of AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile)
• AT&T: 270-330 Mbps down, 8-16 Mbps up, 70-130 ms ping (I have AT&T on my iPhone)
• Campground Wi-Fi: not used

Amenities:

• Garbage dumpsters
• Pool
• Onsite restaurant

Campground map:

An interactive map:

Our site:

A tree is a little too friendly; really should be trimmed more:

We always enjoy when a RV park has an onsite restaurant; this one has the Crest Bar & Grill:

Menu:

Sites are a bit tight, and very few long enough for us to not have to untoad, but we’d be happy to stay here again.

We stayed at Red Bluff KOA Journey in Red Bluff, California. (Campground Reviews listing.)

Our second stay here. One of the nicest KOAs, though a pity about the location near a noisy freeway and train track. We enjoyed walking across the road to a Shari’s for dinner.

Dates:

• Check in: 2025-10-19
• Check out: 2025-10-20
• 1 night

Weather:

• Sunny
• High temp 78°F, low 52°F
• Some wind, gusts to 22 MPH

Noise:

• Nearby freeway noise
• Occasional train horn noise
• Little neighbor noise (some dogs)

Site:

• #114, pull-through, concrete
• Didn’t need to disconnect toad, and didn’t, since only one night
• Level site; used hydraulic leveling, since on concrete
• Concrete driveway about 63 feet long by 15 feet wide
• 13 feet to neighbor on passenger side
• 0-23 feet to road on driver side
• Picnic table
• No fire pit
• Some trees
• Clean site
• Elevation 280 feet, front facing west

Utilities:

• 50 amp power, conveniently located
• 70 PSI water, conveniently located
• Didn’t connect sewer

Internet (in usage priority order):

• Starlink: 80-134 Mbps down, 24-30 Mbps up, 30 ms ping
• RoamLink: 44 Mbps down, 14 Mbps up, 145 ms ping (RoamLink uses whichever is best of AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile)
• AT&T: 340-360 Mbps down, 3 Mbps up, 40 ms ping (I have AT&T on my iPhone)
• Campground Wi-Fi: not used

Amenities:

• Garbage pickup from site
• Pool

See our previous review on Campground Reviews.

Campground map:

An interactive map:

Our site:

Other sites:

See our first visit for more photos. We’d be happy to stay here again.

We stayed at Sutherlin/Umpqua Valley KOA Holiday in Sutherlin, Oregon. (Campground Reviews listing.)

A KOA in an old drive-in movie theater, which still shows movies on the projection screen, and provided a viewing area with chairs and fire pits. The movie sound is played out loud, and can be tuned on a radio station for people who want to watch from inside their RV (for the sites that have a view of the screen, as ours did).

Dates:

• Check in: 2025-10-17
• Check out: 2025-10-19
• 2 nights

Weather:

• Partly sunny
• High temps 62-70°F, lows 45-47°F
• Little wind, gusts to 13 MPH

Noise:

• Little road noise
• No train horn noise
• Little neighbor noise
• Movie noise in evening

Site:

• #86, pull-through, gravel
• Didn’t need to disconnect toad, parked behind coach
• Mostly level site; a little high on passenger side; used hydraulic leveling
• Gravel driveway about 55 feet long by 12 feet wide
• 12 feet to neighbors on both sides
• Fence between sites
• Patio table and chairs
• Bench seat
• Propane fire pit
• A tall tree
• Clean site
• Elevation 540 feet, front facing north

Utilities:

• 50 amp power, conveniently located
• 40 PSI water, conveniently located
• Loose sewer connection, conveniently located (1 10-foot pipe needed)

Internet (in usage priority order):

• RoamLink: 40-52 Mbps down, 6 Mbps up, 140 ms ping (RoamLink uses whichever is best of AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile)
• AT&T: 60-260 Mbps down, 14-16 Mbps up, 40 ms ping (I have AT&T on my iPhone)
• Campground Wi-Fi: not measured
• Starlink: not used

Amenities:

• Garbage dumpsters
• Movie screen

Campground map:

An interactive map:

Our site:

Hey look, the driver-side slide out for the first time in four months!

A nice fenced patio:

Convenient utilities:

Movie screen, viewed from our site:

Other sites:

The movies were a bit noisy, but over before quiet time, and a fun novelty. We’d be happy to stay here again.

We stayed at Portland Fairview RV Park in Fairview, Oregon. (Campground Reviews listing.)

Our second stay here; this was actually the first campground we stayed in with our coach. Not the best place, but convenient to Portland.

Dates:

• Check in: 2025-10-04
• Check out: 2025-10-08
• 4 nights

Weather:

• Sunny
• High temps 67-75°F, lows 47-53°F
• Little wind, gusts to 17 MPH

Noise:

• Significant road noise
• Occasional train noise, but no horn
• Frequent plane noise (in the flight path of PDX)
• Little neighbor noise

Site:

• #38, pull-through, concrete
• Needed to disconnect toad, parked beside coach
• Somewhat level site; high on passenger side; used hydraulic leveling
• Concrete driveway about 45 feet long by 10 feet wide, plus 24 feet long by 12 feet wide car park
• 16 feet to neighbor on both sides
• Just grass between sites
• Picnic table
• One tall tree
• Mostly clean site
• Elevation 80 feet, front facing NE

Utilities:

• 50 amp power, conveniently located; lost power for about 15 minutes one day
• 55 PSI water, though the pressure dropped significantly when in use; conveniently located
• Good sewer connection, conveniently located (1 10-foot pipe needed)

Internet (in usage priority order):

• Starlink: 50-80 Mbps down, 8-13 Mbps up, 30 ms ping
• RoamLink: 12 Mbps down, 8 Mbps up, 133 ms ping (RoamLink uses whichever is best of AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile)
• AT&T: 14-55 Mbps down, 0.05-4 Mbps up, 40-90 ms ping (I have AT&T on my iPhone)
• Campground Wi-Fi: not used

Amenities:

• Garbage dumpsters
• Pool

Our review on Campground Reviews:

Not the best park around, but convenient

Usually, when we make our annual trip through Portland, we stay at Mt Hood, but this time we had errands to do in town, so we stayed here for a couple of days. It’s still not the best park we’ve ever stayed in, though. The site was just barely big enough for our motorhome, and we had to squeeze our tow vehicle in the space alongside, but it was pretty close to the neighboring site. The roads are still uncomfortably narrow, and weeds are popping up through the cracks in the concrete. Maintenance is still an issue, as is the road and train noise. If I want a quiet place in the woods, I’ll still return to Mt Hood, but if I need to be nearer to the city, this will have to do because for $20/night (as part of the Thousand Trails Collection), you can’t really beat the value. We camped at Portland Fairview RV Park in a Motorhome.

Campground map:

An interactive map:

Our site:

Very Portland: by the garbage dumpster was these bins, presumably for people to reuse items:

Looking towards the office and entrance:

Other sites:

Not a great park, but convenient when in the Portland area, so we’d stay here again.

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:

An interactive map:

Our site:

Other sites:

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

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:

An interactive map:

Our site:

Utilities:

View of the office and entrance from our site:

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.