If you want a real challenge, find the driveway to this campground in the fall. The driveway is small/narrow and the sign is small and yellow in the midst of yellow leaves. We had to drive a ways to find a place to turn around safely. The campground is pretty noisy during the day but quiet at night. The laundry room is clean. We asked for a satellite friendly site which meant we couldn't get Wi-Fi from our site. They said we could get online from our laptop by the office. I tried it a couple of times but it kept asking for a user name/password. I went to the office twice to verify the network and to be told there was no password/user name needed before giving up. It's hard to find a campground in much of Connecticut. This is simply a place to park for a few days and explore the surrounding area. I've stayed in many that are much better and a few that are much worse.
This is a nice, clean park. The showers were very clean and had plenty of hot water. They even put Q-tips in the ladies room for the convenience of their guests. Front desk staff is nice and helpful. Trash is picked up daily and there are many small trashcans around the park. Ours was almost at the front door. The gravel sites are level and the grass is tidy. The only downside is the very unreliable Wi-Fi. It was repaired while we were here so I shudder to think what it was like before. I spent nearly as much time reconnecting as I spent online. Also, less than half of the sites have sewer hookups. They offer a free honey wagon but they only dumped part of the black water and none of the Gray???? Last thing you want to do late afternoon is a distasteful job you'd already arranged for. Another interesting thing I noticed here -- I've never had so many campers walk through my campsite to get to the bathrooms. It was just weird. We weren't even next to the building. My young granddaughter knows that walking through someone's campsite is the same as walking through a person's living room. Nothing against management on that one. They even ask folks not to do that in the rules. Just a strange observation. All in all, one of the nicer KOA's we've stayed at for a while. If the Wi-Fi worked better and the honey wagon more reliable, I'd easily give it a 9+.
One of the nicest parks we've camped in after a year on the road. The park is clean and very well run. Everyone who works there is warm, friendly, and helpful. Cell phone and Wi-Fi reception was good and reliable. After a few tries, we managed to find a decent spot for our satellite dish. Complimentary newspapers were available at the office each day. The free shuttle that runs around the island picks up right by the office. This is one park we'd love to come back to.
This park is mostly made up of seasonals and has two distinct personalities. Mid-week, this is the quietest park we've ever stayed in. We were just about the only ones in our portion of the park. Weekend, it's another story. It fills up and our neighbors were up to the wee hours of the morning, partying around the campfire. The owners are really nice folks and helpful. The store is stocked with a decent selection of items. Getting our propane tanks filled at the park office was helpful and beats the heck out of driving around town with them in the back of the truck looking for a place. Bigger Rigs take note!! If we had it to do over, we'd stay in the more open area near the pool. The roads in this park are among some of the roughest and steepest we've encountered. Cell phone reception is weak here. The free WiFi is strong but limited to an hour a day. With some work, we finally found a good spot for the movable satellite dish. I don't think we would have gotten a signal if we were limited to a roof mounted dish. All in all, a nice and pretty park with some obvious limitations that can most likely be worked around.
We really liked this park. We camped in the field area near the pond and were able to good cell phone reception and great Wi-Fi. I'm not sure we would have gotten clear satellite in the lovely wooded area but it worked beautifully where we were. The complimentary newspaper delivered to the site was a nice touch. From the desk staff to those who filled the propane tanks, everyone was friendly and helpful. We'd stay here again.
This place could be the poster child for what is wrong with many so-called "RV Resorts". Cold, impersonal, crammed to the gills, rude, and disinterested. The almighty dollar rules here. We arrived a few minutes early after being stuck in the famous Wells traffic jam. My husband wanted to park the RV for few moments to use our bathroom. Not a chance even though every RV parking spot for checks in was wide open. We had to get back into the traffic and drive down the road to park for 10 minutes. It's a sad commentary when a dying man can't park his RV for a couple of moments to pee. Read their rules carefully. While we didn't have a problem with it, TENT CAMPERS beware. You have to get your gear picked up and out of the way on Thursdays so they can mow the lawn. Even though you've paid for the site, if they think you left, they reserve the right to rent the site to someone else. Make sure it's very obvious you are still in possession of the site. The problem with the park is they have too many people with clipboards. Locals told us the parents owned this former KOA park and were the nicest people in the world. If you want to pay out the wazoo for a cramped noisy park and the heart of traffic, hosted by people who only care about money, this is your place. Wild horses couldn't drag us back.
What can you say about a park that cuts a couple of trees down to make sure there is plenty of room for your rig? We liked this park so much, we extended our stay. This isn't an RV resort. It is a lovely, quiet, quaint campground, with owners who go out of their way to make sure your visit a pleasant one. When they found out that the dryer wasn't working properly, a new one was delivered and set up the very next day. The owner even helped my husband work on our RV. The park has a nice pool and game room. Unfortunately while we were there, some unsupervised children trashed the game room. While they quietly repaired the damage, I wouldn't be surprised if they don't require that children be supervised (as they should be). We selected this park to see that side of the Adirondacks and to visit the Herkimer Diamond mines. You can find places closer to these areas, but I doubt you'd find quieter or nicer. We'd stay here again in a minute.
We selected this site for the location: this park would be perfect for the Brimfield Antique fair. The park is mostly seasonals but for the most part, they keep their sites clean and neat. The dirt/rock roads are rather tight, especially when trying to back into the sites. We were near the laundry room/restrooms so Wi-Fi worked well. The black/gray water hookup is different from anything we'd encountered before. There are two tubes: one for black and another for the gray water. Not difficult, just different. The owners are nice, helpful people who go out of their way to help make your stay pleasant. They also have lots of planned activities on weekends. If we get back to the area, we'd stay here again.
All in all, a pretty nice park. Our first site was downright cramped. My husband had to climb on our roof to trim branches so we could fit (36-feet) into the site. Even then it was TIGHT, TIGHT, TIGHT. There was no chance of getting satellite through the dense trees. If you look around, you'll see pieces of taillights stuck in trees and left by people who thought it was much tighter than we did. I would strongly recommend big rigs stay in the upper area. The roads are narrow and corners tight. After a couple of days sweating it every time a big rig squeezed by, we moved up into one of "Z" sites in the upper row. Much better. We were able to run a long line along the fence to the hole in the trees for satellite. The only downside there was the house in our "backyard" had a small dog that barked constantly during the day. The pool was nice and the folks at the front desk were nice and helpful.
The owners of this park are some of the nicest, hardest working people you'll ever meet. We were checked in by a really helpful woman. She even told us about a great meat market nearby. When the owners are here, I'd give this campground a solid 10. When they are gone, this park deteriorates to a five or worse. From dirty showers to a surly front desk worker who ignores you while she makes personal phone calls or is just plain rude. Also when they are gone, some of the other employees won't even say hello or ride by in golf carts and demand to know what you are doing. We joked that we could tell when the owners were here and sadly we were right. The owners work their tails off trying to make this a great park. It's unfortunate many of their employees don't take as much pride in this place as they do.
This is one of the worst KOAs we've stayed at in the nation and we've stayed at a lot of them. Uneven sites, overflowing trash dumpster, filthy showers and restrooms, and employees who frankly don't care. We even had to endure two nights of tornado warnings huddled on the open office porch under a metal roof during a violent lightning/rain/potential tornadoes with several other campers because the owners couldn't be bothered to open the rec hall for us. A tornado touched down a couple of miles north of us the second night. I've never been at a KOA that cared less about my safety or comfort. If you're used to real KOAs, pass on this one. With new owners, this could be a great park.