Albert Minten

The site for San Mateo County Event Center is https://www.smcec.co and the FAQ at https://www.smcec.co/faqs/ says they do not rent RV spots.

Question: 'Do you rent RV spots to the public?

Answer: No, RV spaces are only provided to vendors involved in a show at the Event Center.

We stayed a week at Countryside RV in February 2017 and really enjoyed it. The owners, Mike and Carol, were on-site and available almost all the time. When we checked in, it was dark and the front desk folks came by our site (#36) with a flashlight to make sure our hookups worked without a glitch.

The park backs up to the local golf course and many of the park residents golfed and used golf carts to get around. Golf cart storage is available at the park.

Countryside has an indoor pool and spa/hot tub area. Since it is inside, the pool water stays clean and cool. The spa is heated between 4 and 9 p.m. each day. The pool house has large garage doors on two sides allowing in sunlight during the day and star gazing from the hot tub at night.

My favorite part of our stay at the park was hanging with the friendly folks staying there, mostly winter Texans. We happened to be there after Mardi Gras and got to participate in the Fat Tuesday Golf Cart parade – which had a margarita float. It was a great time and the memories will be with us for a long time.

One negative is the location of the park. It abuts highway 281 so there can be a quite a bit of road noise based site location. Ours site was right next to the feeder road so we had to keep the RV windows closed to deal with road noise from the big-truck traffic. If possible, select a site towards the back of the park, near the golf course or the pool house.

Also a negative was the free Wi-Fi which is limited to 400 MB per day. Our Wi-Fi worked for several days on a Windows laptop and iPad and then stopped working completely on the laptop. We had to use our personal hot spot for most of our stay for a consistent internet connection.

We arrived without a reservation and got a dry camping site for $16/nite on a Wednesday for two nights. All electric sites had been booked.

Our first site #18 was pull-through but was not easily accessible for our 30’ trailer due to deep ditches on both access roads. We then tried site #25 and could get the trailer in without risking falling into a ditch. That site worked for us, however, had significant tree coverage so our solar did not provide much power.

The major issue we found throughout the park was that the asphalt roads had severe water erosion on both sides leaving deep ditches in many areas. Some sites had been improved with cement added to the sides of the access roads and with cement pads. Many sites had not been improved and were still all asphalt in and out.

So if you go, watch out along the roads, when pulling into the sites and especially when driving into the dump area.

On a positive note, the park hosts at the front were very helpful and gave us several good ideas for our day in Nashville, and evening views of the lake were beautiful.