Kootenai County Fairgrounds RV Park

10/15-17/2023. Contrary to some of the other opinions expressed here, both hosts were extremely helpful and very nice. The grounds have been updated since the 2019 reviews and it is entirely paved. The sites are spacious. Some site have a bit of slope, lifts and blocks can even out your rig. The Wi-Fi access is great throughout the park with boosters all around. It’s one of the strongest Wi-Fi’s we’ve ever experienced. The bathrooms are clean but the mirrors are metal and they don’t reflect distinctly. The showers are separate from the bathroom and are very clean.

It is behind a high school. That’s fine as the kids are not noisy but the class bell and announcements do interrupt periodically. There is a county run dump station on the other side and lots of RVs go by to use that facility. The main road (Dalton Ave) is heavily travelled during the day. All is quite at night when we expect it to be quiet.

It is a ways off the freeway but worth the effort for a few nights stay. Fairgrounds often offer a good solid spot to stay when traveling.

We stayed 2 night mid September on our way to OR. In our opinion it is a great place to stay. Perhaps the only noise is street noise-minimal, and from the school next door, but that is mainly daytime. The sites are paved and well spaced. Bathhouse was always clean. It was mostly full, when we were there, probably people staying the max time.
Easy access to things to do in downtown. We visited a state park nearby. Really enjoyed our stay.

This park is just 5 years old and gets better every year. Roads and sites are paved with picnic tables. Bathroom and shower house completed. Free Wifi installed in 2023. Previous host has been replaced with two very friendly hosts. One host has lived in the area for years and is vey helpful with tips about the area. There is no swimming pool because everyone goes to the beaches at the nearby clean and lovely lakes. The rate for a full hook up site is very reasonable for being in the center of a great resort area.

This RV park has so much potential if the hosts were better.

The Good: Spacious sites and great location with great shopping nearby.

The Bad: the camp host is very strange. We've been FT traveling for 1.5 years. We've never had an issue with the campground hosts. On our 2nd day, I received a text from the host saying "I picked up a piece of paper and orange peel from your site". Ummm, weird to tell us this, but we let it go. It also felt strange that he was walking around our site after we had left for the day. We are very clean people and didn't eat outside. The wind was very strong and the small piece of paper/orange peel must have blown out of our car, but I literally had spent 2 hours the day before cleaning our car from top to bottom. We would see the host awkwardly drive past in his golf-kart and we felt as though we were being watched. It was the weirdest thing!

Checkout was at 11 am. At 10:30 am, I left to run a couple of very short errands as my husband finished packing up to make sure we'd leave by 11. As soon as I left, the camp host texted me "just getting gas, right?". He has no business knowing where I am going! I pull in at 10:55 am and the camp host has left the lawn mower on our site and has his wagon parked just outside with a broom and trash can to clean. I understand wanting to make sure the site is ready for the next guests, but with the combination of the other strange encounters during our stay, this felt over the top! He has a 3-hour window before check-in. As soon as we pulled out of our site before we even made the first turn in the campground, he was already walking over to our site.

It was SO BIZARRE! If you are okay knowing the camp host is constantly watching you and you don't mind feeling as though you are walking on eggshells, it's a great spot. Our stay could have felt amazing with different camp hosts.

Upon my arrival in just the first three minutes I was verbally assaulted by my less then desirable camp hosts. I finally had to stop that show and make it abundantly clear I didn't pay $109 for 2 days to be treated like someone's dirty laundry. At the end of which my lovely hostess proclaimed "I can have you f'ing evicted". Now we were aware WA State had those oversized murder hornets but didn't realize they had crossed into Idaho.

I thought "evicted" a strange term for someone with limited vocabulary and customer service skills to match. The park had no apparent permanent residents and a max stay of 14 days. So I did a little digging. There sits that same verbage redundantly repeated, once in paragraph form and directly below that paragraph as a bullet point on the web page, which you can not get to from their main page because the web admin is also apparently a novice at the job too and renamed the RV Park page but didn't update the main page links.

Maybe you wouldn't have to evict anyone if you greeted them with the courtesy one might use on something like, lets say, a paying customer.

Another thing that should make you go hmm. Notice when you checkout online,  they have a some legalese that proclaims they do not guarantee your site will be available.

We've been camping full-time 4 years now and have never seen an eviction threat or a non-guaranteed reservation system (screenshots posted). Reminded me of the Seinfeld episode with the rental car. Just not as funny.

Full hookups at every site. All the sites and interior roads are paved. There is decent spacing between sites with nice green grass – which the camp hosts tend to diligently. There is no privacy and no trees for shade. All the sites appear mostly level with some sites longer than others. We were in one of the longer sites and it was just long enough for the MH and toad. Great electric – our three ACs ran a lot during a hot spell of 100 for over a week and never experienced a blip. It was sooo hot that all we did was shop and drink beer! Satellite would not be a problem. There is no WII FI but Verizon was 4g 4-5 bars so our hot spots worked fine. It is quiet at night but Dalton road is busy during the day. Coeur d’Alene is a much bigger town than we expected. All the big box stores are there as well as a plethora of restaurants and breweries. The main focus of activity is, of course, the lake. There are public beach areas, and they were packed. Boats are available for rent, and they are very expensive. Every person we interacted in this town was exceptionally friendly … did they all take some special class? Very refreshing!

Stayed 2 nights in September. Full hook-ups, spacious grassy sites, very level, no trees, quiet. They are finishing the installation of restrooms and showers which should be available in 2021. Nice camp hosts - provided area map upon arrival.
The fairground is a fine place to use as a launching point but there really isn’t anything in the area to do unless an event is scheduled. It is adjacent to the local high school so Friday Night Football happened. Not a lot of extra noise from it even with traffic.
I would stay here again.

We were scrambling a bit as we drove into town in early August because we didn't have a campground reserved and everywhere we called was full. We drove past several parks with trailers crammed next to each other in a complex puzzle. And then we found the wide open fairground spots. And for only $40 a night with full hookups (50amp, water, sewer).

We were late enough in the year that it had cooled down so we didn't mind having no shade trees. We lucked out and they booked us on one of the pull-through asphalt handicapped spots for the 4 nights we were there. The other spots are gravel but everything appears to be level. The kids loved riding their books around the paved road over and over again while we washed the RV and took care of some needed repairs.

Close to town, restaurants, a Home Depot and grocery stores. A couple days we were there we heard some horse contests at the fairgrounds next door but it wasn't very loud and the kids loved watching all the horses.

If for some reason you need to access a dump station, there's a very nice dump station right next door to the campground.