“Pure country charm!”
We are very excited to provide you and your family a memorable Iowa camping experience at the best rated Des Moines RV Park & Campground. If it's been years since you've camped at Des Moines West KOA, make it a point to stop back in to see all the new and exciting improvements, including 2 Dog Parks, Huge Jumping Pillow, Jump Shot (Trampoline Basketball), Water Wars, Paddle Boats, Organized Weekend Activities, Ladder Ball, Horseshoes, & Hunt Brother's Pizza & Wings. We promise you'll be pleasantly surprised. The park is nestled 1.5 miles north of I-80, off exit 106, amongst beautiful Iowa farm fields, in a peaceful rural setting, where the only thing you'll hear are the songbirds singing!Des Moines West KOA welcomes you with a country charm that's certain to make you feel right at home! We offer all pull-thru / full hook-up RV sites, camping cabins, glamping tents, deluxe cabins (lodges) and endless tent camping sites. Relax in your lawn chair, fish at the private stocked pond, splash in the heated pool or visit with your neighbor. Enjoy the small-town charm of Winterset - home of the Bridges of Madison County and John Wayne's birthplace. Experience all West Des Moines has to offer, with shopping malls, specialty/antique shops and restaurants galore!Spend the day at Living History Farms in Urbandale to learn how Iowans lived and farmed in the 1800's. In Des Moines, tee off at one of the many golf courses, visit the new Pappajohn Sculpture Park, tour the gold-domed capital, visit the Science Center/IMAX Theater, Art Center, Blank Park Zoo and much more! Your Host: Recreational Adventures Co.
Reviews of Des Moines West KOA
12 people have reviewed this location
Ratings Summary
Cell Coverage
Verizon 4G/5G
Confirmed by 4 users | Last reported on June 13, 2022AT&T 4G/5G
Confirmed by 4 users | Last reported on September 17, 2023T-Mobile 5G
Confirmed by 1 users | Last reported on June 13, 2022This campground seems to attract 2 types of people: locals looking for a campground with a lot of stuff for kids and people looking for a quick overnight stop with amenities. I was the latter.
The middle row of this campgrounds has 2 sites to a spot. In one case, my neighbor's slide-out was hanging over the water hose bib and power pedestal.
Kids are loud and run around u supervised and people continue ually cut through our site.
The bathroom was not as clean as it should have been.
If you absolutely need a spit with power, this works, if you can skip power, a Walmart parking lot is a much better choice.
Nightly Rate: $60.00
Days Stayed: 2
Site Number: 44
Cell Coverage Rating
Verizon 4G
AT&T 4G
The Wifi was awful. Noisy.
Nightly Rate: $50.00
Days Stayed: 1
Site Number: -
Cell Coverage Rating
Verizon 4G
This was a very busy, family campground! Our site was gravel pull-thru with FHU's, well kept lawn between sites, and quite spacious for being stacked like cordwood. Fishin' pond, playgrounds, pool (busy this time of year), large indoor pavilion, nice camp store, tons of stuff for the kids to do and play on. Even being this busy with the large amount of young'uns running and biking around it was surprisingly quiet. They even deliver the on site Hunt's Bros. Pizza to your site. Staff was friendly. We camped at Des Moines West KOA Holiday in a Motorhome.
Nightly Rate: $62.00
Days Stayed: 2
Site Number: 16
This KOA is quickly becoming one of our all time favorites. We’re stayed here 3 times as quick stops on cross country trips between CA and WI. It’s perfect!! Clean, quiet, huge spots and open in winter!! I can’t say enough about this great spot.
Nightly Rate: $45.00
Days Stayed: 1
Site Number: 122
Cell Coverage Rating
Verizon 4G
AT&T 4G
Booked here last minute and had very low expectations. Luckily we were pleasantly surprised.
Very easy getting to it off the highway.
Wonderful staff and very pleasant campers looking to enjoy the wonderful campground.
Best camp store we have ever seen. Fun quality items.
Great, level sites with a decent amount of room between and we had a great view of the fishing pond.
Plenty of room for our dually and Jeep, even with our 44' fifth wheel.
Excellent WiFi and cell service.
It's quite a distance from downtown Des Moines and not much in the area at all. I love even finding obscure things in the area, but the only thing I could find here is that they filmed Bridges of Madison County here. Not even a good movie.
If you're looking for a good stop-over spot or a fun place to hang out with the family for a few days this is a great spot.
Nightly Rate: $56.00
Days Stayed: 5
Site Number: -
Cell Coverage Rating
Verizon 5G
AT&T 5G
T-Mobile 5G
We needed a stopover and they were convenient. Site was level, good power & water. Nice, clean and helpful.
Nightly Rate: $65.00
Days Stayed: 1
Site Number: 27
We came thru looking to dump and refill water. Although they do not have a regular dump station, they had a side empty long enough for us to dump and fill up on water. $21.40 to dump/fill but didn’t find another spot of the interstate so it was worth it.
Nightly Rate: $99.00
Days Stayed: -
Site Number: 2
Friendly staff, fish pond, many activities for kids especially on weekends. Nice site store and pizza or chicken made in store. Clean level sites.
Nightly Rate: -
Days Stayed: 3
Site Number: 2
Cell Coverage Rating
AT&T 5G
Very nice campground. Clean and staff were friendly and helpful. Only drawback was road noise if camping in the edge sites.
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Pets Allowed
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Wifi
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Wheelchair Accessible
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Credit Cards Accepted
- Affiliation
- Kampgrounds of America (KOA)
- Last Nightly Rate
- 99.0
- Longest Vehicle Length Reported
- 44.0
- Lowest Nightly Rate
- 45.0
- Pull Through RV Sites Count
- 77
- Season End
- Year Round
- Season Start
- Year Round
- Sites Count
- 67
- Standard Tent Sites Count
- 24
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Swimming Pool
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Paved Sites
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Fifty Amp
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Full Hookup
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Rec Facilities
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Pull Through
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Tent Sites
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Dump Station
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Big Rigs
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Open Seasonally
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Age Restricted
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Boondock
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Cabin Sites
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Dispersed Sites
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Firewood
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Fulltime Residents
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Group Tent Sites
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Laundry
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Mobile Homes
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Permit Required
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Propane
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Public Water
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Pull Through RV Sites
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Reservations
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Sewer Hookup
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Sites
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Slide Outs
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Standard Tent Sites
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Vehicle Wash Permitted
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Water Hookup
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