StoneRidge Golf & Recreational Community

Spent several days here in our 40' motorcoach. Nice concrete pads, paved streets, very well maintained grass throughout, full amenities including a wonderful and spacious, well maintained dog park. Nice public golf course available within Stoneridge resort (for a fee), plus many of the 75+ lots are nicely developed. Reason I did not give it a 5 star rating is because #1- there is no cable TV and you only get one channel, ABC (channel 4) on digital antenna. You better have satellite if you stay here. #2- this resort is very remote, located close to the very, very small town of Blanchard. Nearest grocery store is 12 miles north. This resort is truly in the middle of nowhere but is very high end and beautiful. Verizon is the only cell service available.

Pros: beautiful peaceful setting. dog park has the best grass I have experienced in my 6 years of FT traveling and it has nice mature shade providing trees. We spent many hours during our stay chilling under the shade, working on the laptop while the dog slept or rolled around on her back. The MH sites are long, wide and lots of open space between sites.

Cons: the park wifi is isolated to the club house and isn't strong enough to attend video conference calls, stream YouTube clips or download software updates. Verizon is the only vendor and works well unless (like me) you are on the pre-paid hotspot plan. Then you can expect 600kbp top speed most of the time; which also makes it worthless when you want to accomplish the 3 items already mentioned.

Tips: The town of Newport (~15 min north) is your biggest town and offers a substantial set of stores (Safeway, Super1, Auto Supply, Verizon, Fast Food). Walmart is south and takes about 40 min because of the distance, small town roads/frequent stop signs and road construction. I didn't get any arrival instructions and this is the first place where the check-in is about a mile from the rv park and hookup/disconnect spot. My advice is drive straight to the rv park, park in the hookup/disconnect area and then drive your toad back to the office to check-in. Otherwise, park on the street in front of the office and just let the traffic figure out how to get around you while you are checking in.

For a shorter (1 - 2 week stay) I would likely come back. I have enough of a data plan on my phone to get me through a week as a hotspot. Anything longer, it is just too debilitating and I'll stay closer to CDA. I made it 3 weeks and would stay 2 more if I still had enough data to keep working.

I see why people opt to own a lot with the cabin and pergola. Fix the internet situation and I would be too tempted to own one too.