Escapees Raccoon Valley RV Park

We absolutely loved our time at Raccoon Valley. Super friendly staff that kept in touch with me throughout my having to change our booking several times and never said a word or charged us extra, always positive. We were coming in from California for my brother funeral and our date of arrival and leaving were so fluid. The sites are gravel but level we were able to pull through and still park our Jeep along side the RV with the bump outs out. Plenty of room in the sites. Great walking trail from the park, nice dog run. They have 4 washers and 4 dryers in a super clean laundry room and the cheapest prices per load I’ve seen yet. Ice Cream socials and coffee. We will definitely stay here every time we’re in Knoxville.

This is a poorly ran park. Walk to the back of property and just debri piled high, bridge over creek is dangerous as it’s falling apart. Sites to close together. The front office manager Mary yelled at one of my kids walking beside the creek. I witnessed it and many others.

I saw manger walking through campers sites look all around and peeking into Windows.
Very unprofessional. Escapees should get new management otherwise this place is a dump.

Bathrooms are disgusting and look to have not been properly clean in quite awhile.

If you are looking for an RV "resort" a place that will entertain you, then do not come here. If you are looking for a safe place to park your RV while you visit the sites around Knoxville, this is the place you want. About 40 minutes to Windrock OHV Park, about 50 minutes to Pigeon Forge, and 5 or 10 minutes to everything you need in an urban area. The sites are mostly level, or at least where you won't need more than a few blocks to level out. AT&T is beyond excellent for working during the day, Verizon ho-hum from time to time. Our number one complaint is the huge diagonal bump and ditch you have to cross to get in and out of the park, beware! The sites on the south side of the river are just parking spaces. Most of the sites North of the river are with grass between them, the width of the grass patch can mostly be measured in inches and not feet between rigs.

This was a basic park with full hookups, nothing fancy. Their rates have gone up. The website I was on had their rates as really cheap. It ended up being $155 for the week. I think it's $25/day for 30A. We were "next to the creek" which was a joke, a little trickle in a ditch running through the center of the park. The trails were actually pretty nice, but not taken care of. I used the shower house once, which is discouraged due to Covid. It was clean and only one shower stall was open. The park was about a mile from the interstate, so convenient but far enough away not to hear it. There seems to be a lot of longterm residents here, but hard to say without the daily meet and greet. The 20A on our pole didn't work. The 30 and 50 seemed fine. There was some traffic noise weekdays starting around 6.

To clarify the rate, the daily rate is $17.50 + $3.00 per day for 50 amp electric.
We chose this campground because we wanted to explore the Knoxville area and stay somewhere at a reasonable cost. This campground met those needs.
The sites are close together and all gravel. Some have a nicer patch of grass than others. Each site has a picnic table, but there really isn't a level, good space to use it.
We did not enter any of the facilities as they are adhering to strict COVID protocols which we very much appreciated.
The other guests were friendly, but it seemed everyone pretty much kept to themselves.
There is a little dog park which was kept very clean. The entire park is also very clean.
The location is convenient to the highway (yet far enough to be quiet) which made it easy to visit Knoxville.
There is a great Kroger in the next town over which is Powell. We also found a great restaurant there called "The Front Porch".
The biggest challenge for us probably doesn't apply to most...we are on a quest to walk 11,000 steps a day. This campground is somewhat isolated as far as places to walk. There are no roads that access the campground to walk on. There are short trails behind the campground, but they are pretty steep which makes it difficult to just get your steps in. But with that being said, the little trails are beautiful and we enjoyed them every morning. We often resorted to just walking circles around the campground after work to get the rest of our steps in.
There is park wi-fi, but you have to pay for it so we just used our Mifi with Verizon which worked fine.
This park is fine if you are just looking for a reasonably priced place to park and work while exploring, but not somewhere I would want to spend any extended time at.

Nice park, friendly people. One bath house with 2 showers and 2 toilets is open and clean, the other one was closed. Good gravel site, plenty long enough for our 38' rig and 20' truck. We chose not to unhook as we were just passing through, heading to warmer weather. My only negatives were the road noise, being right on a busy road, and the width of the sites. Very close to your neighbors. Otherwise, a lovely park.

Nice, well kept campground. This is an Escapees campground of which I do not belong so my rate was a little more than discounted rates for members. Sites are gravel and not level side to side. I had FHU but did not use the sewer as it was just an overnight. Camp host was very friendly. I asked about WI-FI which she said they did not have but I could get a hug which I accepted. You can hook up to internet at the office if you have a HTMI cable and they have a book lending library. We were there on a Sunday and they have a social time in the meeting room on Sundays. They have a ice cream social on Sundays 4-6pm so we thought we would partake. The ice cream is not free, it cost $1 per serving, very good ice cream but no mention of the fee until we asked for it. We camped here in a travel trailer.