garykrell

Yeah, other reviewers have pointed out the many problems with this park: Trains, very long, noisy trains, run within yards of your site, there is no grass, you may be cheek to jowl with your neighbors. But, on the other hand, you will be hard pressed to find a camping spot with better access to downtown Louisville. Just a short run across the Ohio river bridge and there you are: Louisville Slugger museum, KMAC art museum, food, and Bourban at the source. And Jeffersonville within bike/walk distance has many attractive features. Politics of the management aside, we found the staff to be efficient, even if not overly cordial.

This is a very fine facility, one of the nicest I have seen in more than 250 nights on the road. Asphalt roads, level concrete pads reasonably spaced with grass "front yards", strong wifi. I was in the North section of the park, that is a little bit more removed from I-35 than the South section, and protected by a berm and retaining wall, and I never noticed noise from the busy road. The office building sits between the N/S sections and has restrooms, showers, laundry that serve the North park. Since this is Tornado Alley, in the middle of the season, I has pleased to see easily accessible storm shelters.

Yeah, what Donna and USA guy said about this place: all good. $20 cash for short stays. Eric is a layed-back guy who doesn't have his voicemail box set up, so if he doesn't answer, don't worry, he will probably call you right back. Met him at the entrance, where he apologized for the wait because he was busy digging up and replacing a broken water hydrant. He led me over a bumpy approach road to a very level pull-through concrete pad with full hookups. No gate security and there are 4 entrances into the park from a city street. The 5ers on each side of me appeared to be longer term tenants. Three nights there on a weekend: very quiet.

We did an overnight stop here on 4/6/2024 after reserving prepaid pull-through spot #40 about a month earlier. Swift check-in, directed to our spot, and staff came by later to check on us. Site is a concrete pad but not very level. Side-to-side leveling was required and we needed to uncouple TT in order to obtain front-to-back level. Site was FHU, which we needed since we were de-winterizing and boondocking the next few days. Water hookup was a little strange, just a bib faucet, very close to the ground that made it impossible to attach my pressure regulator. No picnic table or fire pit. The park was quiet, but it backs up on busy TX-6/US-190 freeway, which provides plenty of daytime traffic noise, although it did not disrupt our night time snooze.

We arrived at Clovis RVP on June 26, 2020. In Clovis to visit the Blackwater Draw Arch. site and museum (closed due to CoVid-19) and Oasis State Park (closed to camping but open for birding and fishing.)
I agree with OnTheGoAgain's 2016 assessment. We did not use the showers, laundry, etc.
Pros: On the quiet side of town, so no highway or rail traffic noise. Easy access from 4-lane street. Smooth check-in by knowledgeable staff. Plenty of room to maneuver so getting into the very level back-in slots is easy. A gate at the East end of the park opens onto Goodwin Lake Trail, a 1-1/2 mile loop around a "playa" that makes a nice stroll.
Cons: Sites are pretty Spartan: see pics of our #47 that lacked a table, but came with its own trash pile. No access control, so anyone who wants to can drive in and look around.

We arrived at Burns RVP on May 30, 2021. This is a nice full service park (RV, tent, cabins) with mature landscaping to which the owners have made obvious recent improvements. For example, the office is in what appears to be a vintage structure, while the laundry, restrooms and cabins are all new structures. A rather unique feature is a common gathering area opposite the office that has some lawn games, a gas grill, and a fire-pit (with firewood!) We used Burns as a base for day trips to Malheur NWR, Steen's Mountain and the Alvord Desert.

Arrived at Benchmark RVP 18 Feb 2018
Made this a stop on the Mississippi Blues Trail. Nice small park far enough off the highway so that noise is not a problem. Easy entry to pull-through sites with full hookups. Remarkable for its very level concrete pads (TV parking is on gravel) and the first class restrooms and showers.

We stayed here 7 days in early May beginning on a Sunday. Met by Jim, a very helpful park host, who helped us back our 27' trailer into the tight #16. Our gravel site reqd s/s leveling. Later Jim came by to advise that Monday would be the start of a major Wifi upgrade for the park, which would be up and running Wednesday, and would be robust enough to allow video streaming. (Yeah, sure!) Strong Verizon got us thru the Mon, Tues outages and by Wed. new Wifi was up and running. My movie loving DW tested the system each evening and declared it an unqualified success. (Are you kidding, VIDEO STREAMING on an RVP wifi? Yeah!!) Didn't use the cable, RR or showers, or one-washer/dryer laundry (We used one of 2 commercial laundries nearby on Main St.) It's a quiet park, except for a few hot-rods doing tricks in a vacant shopping center off of Main St. The sites are really tight, which wasn't a problem for us; enough space to set up our outdoor grill one night. See my drone shot pic for view of sites 14-18. Dining out? Gustavo's & Wigglin' Pig.

In spite of its name, a "resort" this is not. It appears to be a campground carved out of the pine hills years ago, when US-41 ran through open country. Now its a near-urban location that can charge $50 per night for a sub-standard facility. Pads are small and very closely spaced. Our asphalt site pad was in very poor condition with a declining slope that left the sewer connection uphill from the pad. So on leaving, I pulled around to the dump station in front of the office to empty holding tanks. As we pulled out to the road, I was pursued by staff. "Did you use our dump station?" he asked. "Yes," I replied. "It's not free!" "Dude, I have been here for two days!" "Oh. Have a nice day." This was our only contact with staff, as office was closed when we arrived at 6:15 and closed the next morning. Wifi was poor with frequent dropped connections. A good thing: Nice laundry facility with 5 washer/dryer pairs ($2.25 each), folding tables, etc.

Let's get this straight: This park is NOT "right across the street from the beach". What IS right across the 4-lane boulevard is the PARKING LOT for a public beach. The water's edge is another 500+ yards distant through the dunes. A LONG walk, carrying beach gear, in ankle-deep sand. More about that below.

We spent 5 nights at Pelican Nest and, if our schedule had permitted, would have stayed another 3 or 4.

This is a very compact park, so expect to be squeezed in between your neighbors. Our #11 space was on a level gravel surface with a nice concrete patio at our front door.

The staff could not have been more friendly and helpful. The owner/manager came out to greet us, stopped traffic on the busy Bienville Blvd while we backed into the street to be better positioned to enter our site. (He was also out there on moving day, again stopping traffic while guests left the park.)

Laundry has two washer/dryer sets, clean and reasonably priced.

Now, some advice about the beach. Drive your vehicle across the street to the parking lot and park on the left (East) side. Take the boardwalk to the pier that extends across the barrier dunes. At the end, down the steps, then a short 250 yard stroll to the water. Oh, yes. Pack light. As an alternative: Drive West on Bienville Blvd until it ends at the West End Public Beach parking lot. You can see the water from the parking lot.