Dodge City KOA

The park could be easy to miss as signage from the street is a joke. A very small sign has been tacked to a wooden utility pole. Good signage is visible once you near the office. Check in was efficient and friendly. The rules are fairly basic. The interior roads are paved and in good condition.

Our site, 56, was a wide concrete back in that was just long enough for our Coach and Towed. Services (30/50 amp, water sewer and cable) were to the left side. Distancing is fair for an urban park. Each site has a table and a fire pit. Our site was flat and even. Overall the park was very nicely groomed.

The park included wifi works well as does the cable TV. We did not look for any OTA channels. Satellite would not be difficult. We did not use the washrooms or showers but we checked and found them clean as was the laundromat. There is a small store on site as well as a playground. There is a pool that guests can use. It is in the Hotel next door as the two are associated. There is a water park that is open during season. It is not part of the KOA though.

There are no restaurants or stores within easy walking distance but just a short drive away you can find food, shopping and convenience stores. We found this park to be a good base to use while visiting local attraction. We paid $55.00 per night and we feel we received fair value. We will be back if in the area again.

We stayed here July 8, 2022. We just needed a place to stop for the night and this fit the bill with a nice pull-thru so we didn't have to disconnect. Looks like a nice KOA but we didn't use any of the facilities. The site was concrete, level and roomy for a KOA. It's right in town and it looks like there are lots of things to do for a day or two, but we just moved on. Folks were nice and check-in was easy.

We stayed here on our way back from Colorado. We live in Kansas, but it was too far to drive to get home. I have to say, I was pretty impressed about this KOA. I'm not a fan of KOA's, but this one seemed clean and well taken care of for the most part. Most of the sites had concrete pads, but they put us on a gravel pad that was level. I think they give the concrete pads first and what is ever left over, you get the gravel one's. We had two dogs that we walked on the Levee right behind our campsite. Didn't even have to use the dog park. Most of the campsites appear to be maintained very well. I think there were some long term campers, but their rigs looked new and the place seemed safe. The grass did need cutting and on the morning we were leaving, they were doing that. Trash cans all around the place, too. I would definitely stay here again. Cable TV seemed to work well, too.

We were supposed to stay for only two nights, but ended up staying three due to horrible wind in the area. We stayed April 12-15.

The Good:
The park itself is very nice and you can tell it's new. We had site 30, which is a very long pull through with full hookups. In addition to RV sites, there are also cottages to rent. The bathrooms/showers are nice. The laundry room is also nice, but only has two washers/dryers, so when it's busy, this could pose a problem. We got quite a few channels in over our antenna and we never had any issues with AT&T or Verizon cell signals. Check in is from 4-8, which isn't the most convenient, but we called earlier in the day (in order to book the third night) and they told us what site we were in and we could pull in whenever we needed to and pay later. There's a large city dog park that backs up to the edge of the RV park and there's a gate accessible from the RV Park. There's a nice park next door that has a somewhat sad looking little zoo. There's also a water park nearby.

The Bad:
I'm forever boggled by concrete slab sites not being completely level and this one was a little off. Besides being surrounded by the dog park, park, zoo, and water park, there's also a soccer field right next door. As in, people park in the RV park's parking lot and sit at their picnic tables to watch the games -- that's how close it is. The main issue with Fort Dodge, is it's not secure and it's surrounded by attractions that bring people right to it's doorstep. It'd be nice if there was a gate, so miscellaneous people can't drive right in. This must be an issue for them, because there's a sign on the door of the main building (office, restrooms, storm shelter, laundry room) that says 'No Public Restrooms'. The only problem is, there's not somebody onsite enough in order to enforce this. Whenever we're at a place that has nice showers, I usually take advantage of them to take a long shower, but I didn't feel safe here as anyone could have walked into the bathroom. We were the only ones in the park for a day and we felt so vulnerable.

Conclusion: The park itself is very nice, it's the immediate surroundings and lack of security that makes me dock a star. The reason we wouldn't stay here again is that there's not much to do in Dodge City.