We stayed at Village of Trees RV Resort in Declo, Idaho. (Campground Reviews listing.)

Dates:

• Check in: 2022-06-23
• Check out: 2022-06-24
• 1 night

Weather:

• Mostly sunny
• High temp 86°F, low 48°F
• No significant wind

Noise:

• A little road noise, no train noise
• No neighbor noise

Site:

• #E9, pull-through, gravel
• Didn’t need to disconnect toad, and didn’t since only one night
• Not very level
• Medium site: about 70 feet long by about 25 feet wide
• Full hookups:
• 50 amp power conveniently located
• Didn’t hook up the water; conveniently located
• Didn’t hook up the sewer, conveniently located
• Picnic table

Internet (in usage priority order):

• T-Mobile: 8-13 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up, 100 ms ping, unreliable
• AT&T: 5 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up, 100 ms ping
• Verizon: 16 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up, 100 ms ping
• Starlink: not used
• Campground Wi-Fi: not used

Amenities:

• Garbage dumpsters
• Tiny pool
• Restaurant

Here’s the review Jenn wrote on Campground Reviews:

Convenient to I-84

We only stayed one night on our way through Idaho. Having a restaurant on-site was a huge bonus after a long day of driving (they’ll even deliver to your site). Nice short walk to the Snake River, only marred by the noise of the semis going over the bridge. Not much road noise at our site, though, which is always a plus. Lovely tree-lined streets and most sites seemed to have some shade. We camped at Village of Trees RV Resort in a Motorhome.

The RV park map:

They included a menu for the on-site restaurant when checking in:

Our site; since this was a one-night stay, and we didn’t have anywhere to go, we left the truck connected:

The restaurant:

Convenience store:

We had dinner at the restaurant; I had cheese-filled tots and a burger:

A tiny swimming pool:

Dragon sculpture:

Other RVs:

Our site again:

The park is next to Snake River, and has a path to it:

We stayed at Mountain Valley RV Resort in Heber City, Utah. (Campground Reviews listing.)

Dates:

• Check in: 2022-06-18
• Check out: 2022-06-23
• 5 nights

Weather:

• Mosty sunny
• High temps ranging between 65-82°F, lows around 28-50°F
• Some afternoon wind

Noise:

• No real road noise, slight train noise
• Some neighbor noise

Site:

• #U10, pull-through, cement
• Didn’t need to disconnect toad; parked behind coach
• Nicely level
• Large site: about 75 feet long by about 30 feet wide
• Full hookups:
• 50 amp power conveniently located
• I didn’t note the water pressure; conveniently located
• Acceptable sewer connection, conveniently located (1 10 foot hoses used)
• Picnic table

Internet (in usage priority order):

• Starlink: 1-2 Mbps down, 1-16 Mbps up, 90 ms ping
• AT&T: 8 Mbps down, 6 Mbps up, 100 ms ping
• T-Mobile: 2-28 Mbps down, 17-21 Mbps up, 45-87 ms ping, unreliable
• Verizon: 18 Mbps down, 13 Mbps up, 60 ms ping
• Campground Wi-Fi: not used

Amenities:

• Garbage collection from site
• Multiple pools
• Package pick up in office

Here’s the review Jenn wrote on Campground Reviews:

Check-in’s at two! Check-in’s at two!

This was a fantastic resort, but check-in is at two. We’d never stayed at a place with such a late check-in time, so when we pulled in just before 1 pm and the guy behind the counter asked if we’d called beforehand to see if we could “come in early” I was a little confused. There were at least three other RVs checking in at that time because the lanes for registration were all full, so I didn’t realize our faux pas. I’m guessing we were the last in a long line of RVs who were coming in early from the Tiffin Rally so he was a bit frazzled because he mentioned in every single sentence that check-in is at two. I think his co-workers were getting used to his mood because when he asked one to go see if our site was ready because we were early and check-in’s at two, the other guy finished his sentence before smiling at me with a wink. Anyway, our site was ready and we were efficiently guided to it and parked on a nice, level concrete slab.

This resort has three pools, one of which is in the 21 section of the park, where we’d choose to stay next time. Everything is beautifully maintained and the staff (other than Mr. Check-in’s At Two) were super friendly and helpful. Here’s the punchline. Check-out is at noon. We were out by 11 am and an hour up the road when I got a voicemail from someone in the office to ask if we were heading out soon because check-out is at noon. There was then a second voicemail a few minutes later to apologize and that she’d been looking at the wrong site. We camped at Mountain Valley RV Resort in a Motorhome.

The RV park map:

Our site:

Entrance:

Office:

One of three swimming pools:

Games:

Other RVs:

Our coach and others:

Mountains in the background, and a wall dividing the park:

About half of the park is 21 and over only… unfortunately we weren’t in that part:

Adults only clubhouse:

Pools:

We stayed at Vernal / Dinosaurland KOA Holiday in Vernal, Utah. (Campground Reviews listing.)

Dates:

• Check in: 2022-06-11
• Check out: 2022-06-13
• 2 nights

Weather:

• Sunny
• High temps around 96°F, lows around 61-65°F

Noise:

• No road or train noise
• Lots of neighbor noise the first night

Site:

• #16, pull-through, gravel
• Didn’t need to disconnect toad; parked behind coach
• Not very level
• Chock full of weeds; kinda run-down looking
• Large site: about 75 feet long by about 45 feet wide
• Full hookups:
• 50 amp power conveniently located
• 100 PSI water pressure (regulator required!); conveniently located
• Didn’t use the sewer connection, since only there a couple of nights
• Picnic table, fire pit

Internet (in usage priority order):

• T-Mobile: 13-17 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up, 80 ms ping
• AT&T: 7 Mbps down, 6 Mbps up, 80 ms ping
• Verizon: 9 Mbps down, 10-14 Mbps up, 100 ms ping
• Starlink: not used
• Campground Wi-Fi: not used

Amenities:

• Garbage dumpsters
• Pool

Here’s the review Jenn wrote on Campground Reviews:

Past its prime park, close to Dinosaur

Roads are very tight and people park all their extra vehicles all over the place, blocking the road. The layout of the park is not very well thought out. All the pull-through rows are long, with no pathways to get from one edge of the park to the next. As a consequence, we had people walking right through our site to get between the bathroom and the dog park. I’ve never seen so many rude and clueless campers. Our site was so full of weeds we couldn’t use the outdoor area. It looked like there may have been a shade tarp over the outdoor area at some point, but there’s nothing left but the posts now, which were inconveniently located so we couldn’t put out our awning. Overall, it seems like this might once have been a terrific park that’s gone to seed (literally). The nightly rate is after I exchanged $50 in KOA points; otherwise, it would have been extremely overpriced for what it is. We camped at Vernal / Dinosaurland KOA Holiday in a Motorhome. 

The RV park map:

Our site (I’ve previously masked out our coach and truck license plates, but am not going to bother anymore; I don’t think showing them is a significant risk):

The site is full of weeds:

Utilities:

On the first night, we had several people walking through our site, which is a major faux pas in campgrounds:

The reason was that the bathroom block was opposite us, and inconsiderate people couldn’t be bothered walking a little further:

If you’re new to camping, make a note: do not walk through other people’s sites. It’s very rude.

Elsewhere, some cabins:

An empty site:

The office:

Playground, mini-golf:

We stayed at Montrose / Black Canyon NP KOA Journey in Montrose, Colorado. (Campground Reviews listing.)

Dates:

• Check in: 2022-06-05
• Check out: 2022-06-11
• 6 nights

Weather:

• Mosty sunny
• High temps ranging between 83-96°F, lows around 53-60°F
• Some afternoon wind

Noise:

• Some road noise, no train noise
• Some neighbor noise

Site:

• #5, pull-through, gravel
• Didn’t need to disconnect toad; parked behind coach
• Not very level
• Medium site: about 60 feet long by about 28 feet wide
• Full hookups:
• 50 amp power conveniently located
• I didn’t note the water pressure; conveniently located
• Acceptable sewer connection, conveniently located (1 10 foot hoses used)
• Picnic table

Internet (in usage priority order):

• T-Mobile: 31-41 Mbps down, 4-8 Mbps up, 35 ms ping
• AT&T: 8 Mbps down, 4 Mbps up, 75 ms ping
• Verizon: 0.5-2 Mbps down, 5 Mbps up, 65-190 ms ping
• Starlink: not used
• Campground Wi-Fi: not used

Amenities:

• Garbage dumpsters
• Pool
• Package pick up in office

Here’s the review Jenn wrote on Campground Reviews:

Convenient to Black Canyon National Park

Firstly, I must give a shout-out to the wonderful lady in the front office who saved me from an error in dates. I’d accidentally booked the week before we were planning on being there. She called me up after we no-showed and asked if we were on our way. After discovering my error, she very helpfully rebooked us for the following week and didn’t even charge me the usual fee to do so. That’s what I call excellent customer service!

The park itself is your pretty standard KOA Journey. We had a nice, long pull-through with mature trees giving good shade all day. The downside to the nice, long pull-through site on the first row meant that everyone and their dog used the empty neighboring sites as a shortcut to the rest of the park. Our site was also not at all level; the automatic leveler gave up and I had to work hard to get them leveled manually. We camped at Montrose / Black Canyon Nat’l Park KOA Journey in a Motorhome.

The RV park map:

The weather for our stay:

Our site before parking:

Our site:

We visited another national park while here, so added a sticker; the last for a month:

It wasn’t quite as windy as elsewhere, so we were able to use our window awnings for the first time in a while:

Breakfast for dinner! Griddle potatoes, bacon, and eggs:

Sunset:

Let’s walk around. The KOA sign, with the office behind; our site was beyond the stop sign and cabin on the left:

A model plane ornament:

Swimming pool:

Pavilion:

Quite a nice-looking cabin; our site was behind this:

More cabins:

A fiver in the site next to ours; interestingly the bedroom slide-out has a slide-out:

More RVs:

A Spyder motorcycle arriving, pulling a trailer:

The trailer transformed into a surprisingly large tent:

Our coach again, with the main awning out: