Estes Park, CO - 2010 - Elk Meadow RV Resort
RATING: 1 – Yuck, 2 – Poor, 3 – Fair, 4 – Good, 5 - Excellent
OVERALL RATING: 4
Would you stay here again: Yes
Dates: June 9 – 13, 2010 (5 nights at $49.75/nite)
Quality of Facilities; Layout and Visual Appeal: 4 Oh this place is peaceful! There are great views of the snow capped mountains all around us. This RV park has a nice layout with even rows of back to back sites and pull-ins. Despite all the trees surrounding us, most of the park is out in the open. Only one row has shade and pin trees. Most of the back-in sites are long enough for big rigs, they are narrow leaving little room for an ‘outdoor area. The sites are fairly close together. The interior roads are gravel and the sites are gravel with grass in between. There is no landscaping. In fact the grounds are not too attractive. But the view of the beautiful mountains gives this park a higher rating for me.
Location: 5 Good location. Right outside of the busy life in town and right next door to Rocky Mountain National Park entrance. We are at the base of the mountains, but up hight.
Noise/Quiet: 4 Very quiet. No traffic noise, no train or plane. An occasional helicopter. Dead quiet at night. Had a problem with the neighbor being noisy. She looks to be permanent. Ran her heater all day and night on the last two nights, sounded like a car moter idling. It was very annoying. Had to turn our fan on to drown out the noise. Wore earplugs that first night.
Staff: 3 Employees. Friendly, but nothing special.
Amenities: 3 Full hookups with cable TV (only about 20 channels, all sports, Spanish, news,talk shows; nothing worth watching) Free WiFi at the site with password logon, but connection was terrible ; weak and slow.
Recreation: 4 There is a pool, pond, playground, mini golf, group campfire ring, café, etc. There are probably activities, but June might be too early in the season. Probably real busy in July.
Laundry Room: 4 Nice size room with about 6 washers ($1) and 6 dryers ($1). Cheap. The machines look like new and are clean and good shape. The room has chairs, folding table and magazines.
Comfort Station: 3 There were 2 comfort stations. I only checked out and used the portable building nearest us. These are large individual rooms with sink, toilet, and shower. Very private, but the place is really run down. Very dirty. Dirt and dust all along the floor boards (yuck). Walls were stained. The floor was stained, looked dirty and real cheap stuff. The shower stall is vinyl with plastic door. Also stained. The stall was small and the shower head was way to low; had to arch the back to get the hair wet for washing. But there was lots of hot water and good pressure.
Assigned RV Site #F14: 4 We were on the only row with pine trees. All the other sites were out in the open. We had a back-in site, but no one was behind us for our whole stay. Out site was long but narrow and sloped down so we had a very narrow space for the picnic table. We had pine trees on either side for shade. We had the million dollar view of the mountains. One neighbor was a big rig and permanent. The other neighbor was a 5th wheel and was there for three nights, then the site was empty for the last two nights.
NOTE: There was a lot of rain during our stay. Dark clouds for three with afernnoon rain. It rained solid the last two days. The Fall River that ran through town and near our campground was raging and very full from the snow melt runoff. All the rain didn’t help. At some points it went over the banks. There was a lot of sandbagging in town. But it never flooded. The river was shown on the local news several times during our stay.
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Manitou Springs, CO - 2010 - Pikes Peak RV Park
RATING: 1 – Yuck, 2 – Poor, 3 – Fair, 4 – Good, 5 - Excellent
OVERALL RATING: 3.
Would you stay here again: Yes
Dates: June 6 – 8, 2010 (3 nights at $38.78/nite)
Quality of Facilities; Layout and Visual Appeal: 3 This is a small RV park with about 80 sites, but some of those sites are way too small and narrow to really put a trailer in. But I’m sure if it is full they do squeeze in more trailers. It is all dirt with no clear site boundaries. In fact it is like a very large dirt parking lot with trees here and there and surrounding the park. There is a hillside on one side of the park and a creek and busy street on the other side. There is a large interesting and attractive stone house on one end of the park where the owner lives. The layout is not clear and the sites short and narrow and way too close together. First impression is ‘what have we gotten into’. But the management is very friendly and you get a free local newspaper every morning which we have not seen any RV park do on this trip. The place is clean with no stuff dumped on the property and it does not look like there are too many permanent trailers.
Location: 4 Good location to the attractions we want to see. Manitou springs is a quaint resort like town with a fun downtown area with neat shops and nice restaurants. Garden of Gods is next door and Pikes Peak is nearby. Also near Colorado Springs.
Noise/Quiet: 3 The park is alongside the main road to the downtown area so there is traffic noise (lots of motorcycles that are staying in the motel across the street). But fairly quiet at night. No train or plane noise.
Staff: 4 Manager. Very friendly lady that is very personable and sweet. She lives on site. Owner also lives on site in a beautiful stone house at one end of the park.
Amenities: 3 Full hook-ups, but no cable TV (about 5 channels on the antenna), Free WiFi with easy logo, but weak signal and connection.
Recreation: 2 None. Not even a pool or playground. But I saw some kids fishing in the small creek that runs alongside of the park. The recreation is all outside of the park with hiking and attractions nearby.
Laundry Room: 4 Large room w six washers ($1), 6 dryers (.75). Machines are in good shape and clean. Room has sitting area, folding table and a book shelf with books to exchange. The laundry room was closed in the am when people were using the showers. Not enough water pressure to accommodate both at the same time.
Comfort Station: 3 Bathroom is small with a weird layout. Three showers. The stalls are not too small. Vinyl with shower curtain and built in shelf for soap. The dressing hare had a solid door that was too high. There was a bench and hooks. Lots of hot water, but pressure was on and off.
Assigned RV Site #43: 3 Our site was a back-in along the creek with a busy road on the other side of the creek. The site is way to close to the neighbor on the door side. Our awning just about touches their slide out. They have a big 5 wheel with about 3 slide outs so it takes up a lot of room. But the sites are way too close. There is a lot of space on the other side so we don’t feel too crowded.
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