Elk City-Clinton KOA

This was good for a one or two night stopover: convenient to the freeway, affordable, nice (if overgrown) fenced-in dog park, level but small sites, wifi good enough to stream, a little shop with drinks and pizza. The staff did not do anything about people letting their dogs run off-leash all day through the campground, including approaching and jumping on leashed dogs aggressively. When we let them know, they just said “they’re leaving soon.” I wouldn’t be back for that reason.

We had a decent site on the end of the road. Lots were well spaced out. Right on historic route 66. Took a picture in the road with our kids. Good for a stop-over.

We stayed here one night while traveling between Kansas and Texas. Coming from the east, our GPS wanted us to get off of I-40 at exit 53, which would have had us traveling down a narrow stretch of old Route 66 for 3 miles to reach the campground. We opted to take exit 50 instead as instructed in our reservation email, which allowed us to pull into the check-in lanes in front of the office while pointed towards the campground entrance.

The campground has a mix of pull-through and back-in sites. All of the sites in the front half of the campground has asphalt pads, grass lawns, and picnic tables.The short back-in sites on the east side, just beyond the campground entrance, have one or two shade trees, while the pull-through row in the middle of the campground has plenty of them. Our site (site 56) had tall trees on all four corners of the site, and all of them were trimmed high enough that we had no problem getting in and out of the site, and it was level side-to-side. The hookups were reasonably placed, but the sewer opening was not threaded.

The office doesn't have much of a store when compared to other KOAs, but it is attached to an on-site restaurant that serves a variety of simple dishes (such as pizza, burgers, pulled pork sandwiches, and wings). They have 20lbs propane tanks for exchange as well as a propane refill station. There are tables and chairs on the elevated back porch for enjoying your food when the weather is nice that also overlooks the swimming pool area. There is a small simple, playground area on the west end of the campground with a swing set, a merry-go-round, a basketball hood, and a horseshoe pit. There are bathrooms attached to the office building that are secured by an 8-digit code (the longest bathroom code I've ever seen) and there is a separate building in the middle of the campground with a small laundry room.

There are two dog parks. There's a small run next to the playground, and a much larger park on the north end of the campground at the end of a large grassy area. The larger park has some solar-powered lights attached to the fence: they were barely lit during our stay, possibly because it had rained all day.

The Verizon signal pulled in by my Jetpack hotspot with MIMO antenna showed 4 bars, but the download bandwidth was terrible during the day and throughout the early evening, likely because local smartphone traffic was prioritized over mine. Before 7am on the day we left, when I guess no one else was using the network, I got 18 Mbps down and 25 up. In contrast, the speed test I ran on my 5G AT&T smartphone showed 84 Mbps down and 8 up and was consistent throughout our stay.  I tried the campground WiFi and got 3 Mbps down and 1 up.

We would stay here again if we were passing through.

We stayed here in a 26’ motorhome while traveling the I-40. We asked for a site in the upper section thinking it would have less highway noise, but it had no shade and it was a hot day (84• in November!) so we went back to the office and asked to be moved to the lower area. The staff had no problem with that and moved us to 51, a 30 amp full h/u pull through in the treed area! Our site was fairly level, some were not. They have 2 dog parks and the larger was great for some ball time. They have 2 laundry rooms with 2 washers/dryers each; $2/wash $2/1hr dry. Back laundry room needed a new floor and didn’t smell good but machines worked fine. We went to the bar and had a couple of beers, chatted with Robin, she made us a frozen pizza and we had a great time. She was the front desk/bartender/waitress/chef and helper to travelers needing to strap down their load. Amazing hospitality and made our stay at this older, roadside park a good one.

Immaculate grounds, lots of grass and most sites with shade trees. Space between sites is pretty standard but with lots of grass in between. My particular site was not real level, side to side but most of the others seemed fine level wise. Large and CLEAN dog area. A popular O/N campground but also with campers who seemed to be there for more than O/N. The sites in front are closer to the highway and although there was a little road noise, it didn't seem bad considering how close and easy it is to I-40. There are also about 25 sites in the back that may be quieter with a few 50A sites and the rest 30A. There is a dinner (Pizza, pulled pork, baked potatoes, Wings, and Sides) and a breakfast menu (breakfast type sandwiches). The staff/owners are very engaging and happy to accommodate. As mentioned, there are quite a few trees, probably at almost every site, if you have height or width restrictions, just call ahead to make sure you get a site that fits you. Almost every site will fit a MH, but they do fill up. Not sure exactly what is in the area, I only stayed the night, but I could have stayed a few more. There is a lake about 400 yards from the Campground, but no swimming or even dog swimming . . . something about snapping turtles!

Came in at night and turned down isle w/ pull through spots and was a dead end, had to back all the way down road to get out.
Very low voltage on 39amp, left and went on down the road.

Great stopover place right off the highway, there was Clinton lake across the street but we were just passing through.

Good for a stopover. Forget the full hookups. It is like a parking lot and you are slammed on top of each other. Much more room in the back of the park. Pool is decent but they let outsiders come in for a fee and it was packed with kids. Bathrooms super clean. Friendly staff. Little grill for fast food and they have a bar where you can get a beer. Walking distance to Lake Clinton.

Zip, zero, zilch hot water in the women's bathroom. It was a clean facility but I'd rather have a hot shower than a clean cold shower.

No room on site for a 38ft class A towing had to convert to a 30AMP which wouldn’t been a problem if it would work correctly could only run 1 A/C and it kept tripping the breaker. No WIFI. Be prepared to run your generator. However, staff was very friendly.