We stayed at Riverview Ridge Campground in Cascade, Iowa. (Campground Reviews listing.)
A good base for visiting the Field of Dreams movie site.
Dates:
- Check in: 2024-07-18
- Check out: 2024-07-22
- 4 nights
Weather:
- Mostly cloudy
- High temps 76-80°F, lows 56-62°F
- Negligible wind, gusts to 9 MPH
Noise:
- No road noise
- No train horn noise
- Some neighbor noise
Site:
- #39, back-in, grass
- Needed to disconnect toad, parked in front of coach
- Fairly level site; high on passenger side; used hydraulic leveling
- Grass driveway about 70 feet long by 8 feet wide
- 28 feet to neighbors on both sides
- Picnic table
- Fire pit
- No trees
- Mostly clean site
Utilities:
- 50 & 30 amp power, conveniently located
- 40 PSI water, conveniently located
- Good sewer connection, conveniently located (1 10-foot pipe needed)
- When we arrived, the 50 amp power didn’t work, so we used 30 amp overnight, and got it fixed the next morning
Internet (in usage priority order):
- T-Mobile: 60-70 Mbps down, 11-19 Mbps up, 40 ms ping
- AT&T: 64 Mbps down, 7 Mbps up, 50 ms ping
- Verizon: 1 Mbps down, 5-9 Mbps up, 50-120 ms ping
- Starlink: not used
- Campground Wi-Fi: not used
Amenities:
- Garbage dumpsters
- River tubing etc
Our review on Campground Reviews:
Picture postcard Iowa
Close your eyes and picture “Iowa” based on what you know from popular media, and this campground is pretty much what you’d see. Rolling fields of corn, a meandering river, close to a cute little town, it was all very picturesque. The campground is a good size and sits along the North Fork Maquoketa River, and they offer various rentals to enjoy the river if that’s your thing. Our site was a very long back-in up a slope but was reasonably flat at the top. The 50A connection wasn’t working when we got there, but as soon as we alerted them to the issue, someone came out to fix it, and we had no further problems during our stay. We camped at Riverview Ridge Campground in a Motorhome.
Tip for Other Campers: The Field of Dreams Movie Site is everything we’d hoped it would be. I highly recommend going on one of the “Ghost Game” days during the summer; it made the whole thing even more special. We also drove to Cedar Rapids to see a Kernels (high-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins) game, which was also good fun….
Campground map:
An interactive map:
Our site:
When I plugged in the electrical Watchdog smart surge protector, it reported an error:
The app explained the error:
It was late, so we used the 30 amp socket overnight, then I went to the office to report it in the morning, and the owner came by minutes later to fix the electrical panel. It was more complex than expected, but he patched together a fix, so we were able to use the 50 amp socket:
Cornfields next to the campground:
Unusually, parallel parking sites:
Other sites:
Clubhouse:
Fire pit:
Steep road to the river:
People enjoying floating in the river:
A nice campground. We’d be happy to stay here again.
