Minnesota

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Duluth , MN - 2011 – Cloquet/Duluth KOA, #58

RATING: 1 – Yuck, 2 – Poor, 3 – Fair, 4 – Good, 5 - Excellent
OVERALL RATING: 3
Would you stay here again: No (see Noise/Quiet)
Dates: Aug 5 – 7, 2011 (4 nites at $38.00)
Quality of Facilities and Visual Appeal: 4
Wow this is not like most KOA’s. There is no KOA A-frame office building. It looks more like a lodge in the woods. It’s a log cabin building and very impressive. The building includes the showers, restrooms, laundry, office, game room and TV room. It’s a small RV park with about 62 sites. The sites are spread out and spacious. The interior roads are gravel and the sites a gravel with grass on both sides. The sites are level and include a picnic table and a fire pit. The park is neatly laid out. Most of the sites are out in the open and not shady. Some do have a few trees that provide shade. The smaller sites and tent sites are in the forest. There are several trees on the outer part of the park that give the whole area some privacy. The park is clean and the lawns are mowed. There is no junk lying around and I did not see any permanent residents. If it were not for the train and loud horns, I would have given this park a higher rating.
Staff: 3
Employees; young people. Some looked very young. Maybe I am just getting older. They are friendly and accommodating. Gave me a choice of sites when I asked for it.
Location: 3
Located at the edge of town (about 10 miles from downtown) out in the country, but too close to the railroad.
Noise/Quiet: 2
There are railroad track next to the RV park and trains run by a few times a day and also into the night. They blast their horns as they speed by. It is extremely loud and rattles the trailer. Very unnerving when the horns blow at 3am. You do not get a restful sleep. It is because of this that we will never stay here again.
Amenities: 3
Full hook-ups available, but we asked for electric and water only. There is no cable TV. You can get about 6 local channels on the antenna. Free WiFi, but not at all sites. See Assigned Site.
Rec Room/Lounge/ Pool: 4
Lots of stuff for kids. There is a nice pool with hot tub and a playground. There is a large game room with arcade games and a pool table. Also a TV room with a large screen TV. That is probably on cable. Did not check it out. There is also horseshoes and kids can rent banana bikes. There are carts for adults to rent as well.
Laundry Room: 4
Very nice room. Machines are in good shape and clean. Looks like two of the 4 washers are new, being front loaded. There are 4 dryers and one large, heavy duty dryer. Wash is $2 for 30min, and dry is $1.50 for 48 min.
Comfort Station: 4
The showers are individual private rooms in a common area. There are about 6 of them with 2 being larger and for the handicapped. Rooms are lined up on one side of the hallway and then the Women’s and Men’s rooms on the other side. Those rooms are spacious, well lighted and clean. The shower rooms are also spacious with a chair and several hooks. There is a shower curtain across the stall. The stall is vinyl and bit tight, but roomier than some stalls we’ve seen. Lots of hot water and good pressure. These stalls can get dirty if you are not the first person to use them. The one I used one morning had mud tracked in on the floor. People do not clean up after themselves. All and all the comfort station is very nice and not at all a typical KOA bathroom.
Assigned Site #58 3
We were given a choice of about 6 sites to choose from. I really liked the site were were originally assigned to, but we could not get any WiFi signal at that site. So we took one that was closer to the office and in line of the WiFi antenne on the roof of the office. Our site was a pull through and across from a row of trees. So it felt cooler and we got some shade. Other wise our site was out in the open. It was a long and spacious site. However we shared our grass strip with the neighbor on one side. Our doors and picnic tables faced each other. It would have been a major problem if we had neighbor with lots of kids. But of the four nights we stayed here we only had one neighbor on that site and they came in late at night and left early the next morning. We were in the back of the park and had very few neighbors during our stay here. There was one very annoying, bright light a few sites down from us. We lowered our awning low enough to block that light from coming into our trailer at night.
Park Residents/Neighbors: 3
We did not meet any of our neighbors, but we were greeted by some of the residents and most people were pleasant. There was a lot of car door slamming at some of the sights near us and next door on our back side when they were leaving for the evening. Why do people have to do that. It’s like they remove one thing from their car, shut the door and bring it into the trailer or tent, then go back to the car, open the door and remove another item, slam the door......


 

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