Great Falls RV Park

The park is located not far from I 15 and Route 87 (10th Ave South). There is pavement all the way. Signage is adequate. Check in was efficient and friendly. The rules are fairly basic. The interior roads are paved and appear to be in good condition.

Our site, 74, was a gravel based pull through that was just long enough for our Coach and Towed. Services (30/50 amp, water and sewer only) were to the left side. We opted to only use electricity thus we did not pay full price for this site. Distancing is good for an urban park. Each site has a table and maybe a fire pit. It was very snowy so I am not certain. Our site was flat and even. Overall the park appeared to be well manicured.

The park included wifi worked well.. We did not attempt any streaming but it seemed quite robust. . There is no cable TV but we did find plenty OTA channels. Satellite will not be difficult in the area we were placed. We did not use the washrooms or showers nor did we check their conditions. There is small convenience store as well as propane sales on site.

There are no restaurants or grocery 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 overnighter. We paid $39.37 inc tax with GS discount per night and we feel we received good value. We will be back if in the area again.

I was driving to the exit one time, slow enough to stop on a dime if needed. I saw a couple of ladies talking, and gave a smile and a wave as I passed. One of the ladies screwed up her face and yelled "SLOW DOWN!" with vitriol usually reserved for people who torture puppies or something. I looked down at my speedometer, and it read about 13mph. The speed limit in the park is 7.5. Well, perhaps I deserved a "talking to," and if she had waved me down I certainly could have stopped for a talk. But she (who I learned later was the wife of the owner) didn't want to take the time to be nice, but chose to just yell with hate. I later apologized to the owner, but never received an apology for being treated so shabbily.

The campground is located next to the section of i-15 that passes through Great Falls, but there is no direct access from the highway. If you approach from the east, you’ll pass the park and then take the off-ramp at exit 0 to access it. On your final approach to the campground, you’ll pass under a 14-foot high railroad bridge (if your RV is somehow taller than 14 feet, you’re probably already aware of that). The entrance to the campground which leads to the office is the second entrance on the right after the bridge. The office is about 100 feet from the entrance, and you can park in the right lane to check in.

The office contains a small store with some supplies, refrigerated drinks, and an ATM machine. You can also purchase ice and propane at the office: the propane tank is next to the office building. If you have packages delivered while you’re at the campground, they’ll be dropped off at the office and kept in the front left corner for you to come by and pick up. The small laundry room is to the right of the office, and there are bathrooms at the end of the building. There is another bathhouse building a few rows away from the office.

The campground is a mix of back-in and pull-through sites, but most of the back-in sites are occupied by long-term residents. With the exception of the row in front of the office, the pads are gravel. We stayed at two pull-through sites during our stay, and both were fairly level. There are rules against putting any mats or stakes into the grass: each site has several tiny sprinklers that will pop-up during the overnight hours if it hasn’t rained in awhile. A nice feature of the pull-through sites we had was there was an extra parking space at the rear of the site, you can you park two vehicles at your site. The sites near and east of the office are fairly shaded; the rest of the park is mostly open.

While the residents of the campground are fairly quiet, there is a lot of environmental noise: road noise from I-15, the occasional train horn from the active tracks about a mile away, and the airplanes flying in and out of the airport behind the tall hill off to the west of the campground. And on Friday and Saturday nights during the summer, you can faintly hear the musical acts performing on an outdoor stage at the bar just down the street from the campground (on the other side of the bridge). But all of that is to be expected at a campground on the edge of downtown. And the location has certain advantages: there is a shopping center with a grocery store, a Home Depot, and a few restaurants just a mile away, and a short walk from the campground entrance puts you on a bike trail that parallels the highway and brings you over the Missouri River.

There are plenty of places to walk dogs: inside the campground there is a fenced-in dog area in the southwest corner of the campground, and next to that is a grassy field used as a storage area for boats and RVs. There is a also a forested area just across the street from the campground.

In terms of cell service, the average speed I got on my Verizon Jetpack with MIMO antenna during our stay was about 21Mbps down and 8Mbps up, and we had no real trouble steaming video other than some occasional buffering. The one speed test I did with my AT&T phone showed 60Mbps down and 7 up.

We didn’t originally plan to stay here as long as we did: we had a medical emergency during our initial stay and as a result we had to extend our stay and then make arrangements to come back after a quick trip to Glacier National Park for a medical follow-up. The campground staff told us they always keep one or two sites in reserve for such emergencies and they let us extend our original reservation in the same site so we didn’t have the extra stress of changing sites. So we would definitely stay here again if we were in the area.