Rock Springs-Green River KOA Journey

{Date Stayed: April 18-19, 2023} Would stay here again if this is our only choice within the parameters of, 1 night and destination urgency. As far as KOA's are concerned (we are members) this is probably the worst one we've stayed at. The daily price is about $20 higher than others. Granted, the time of year & weather influenced a dark tone (cold, sleet, rain, hail). They need to pave areas that flood & get muddy every year. We were in mud on the entrance street and then the first site offered was mud (#5) so we were granted another that was better eventho the two neighbors were using (our) 50amp (with apparent permission) so we were limited to the 30amp. Since we were only there as an overnight, not a big deal. LOVES should have an RV location there.

I agree with previous reviewer who mention the gravel everywhere with few trees and unpleasant big gas or oil tanks at the entrance. Freeway noise is present but distant enough that it didn't bother us. The store and laundry were clean and neat and staff was nice and helpful. The small pool was clean. We were at site 86 which was supposed to have a shade tree, but there was only a tree stump. We did have a fence, picnic table, two adirondack chairs and firepit. Note, too that the tree was also gone next to site 61. We will try to plan stops in the future so we can find a less expensive campground, but there's not many around for a very long distance. We would stay again if we needed to stop near Rock Springs.

Paid $75 to park in a gravel lot next to oil storage tanks, bright lights and a noisy highway. Only stayed here because we needed to do laundry, which is $3 for washer and $3 for dryer, of which you need to run twice (half full drum), so $9 per load. Three loads later and we're in it $100. Store is expensive (4 pieces of firewood for $9). WiFi didn't work. Pretty much highway robbery. Avoid and take your business elsewhere.

We stayed here one night while making our way across Wyoming. The campground is just off of I-80, so there is some road noise, but it’s not bad. The entire surface of the campground - roads and sites - is gravel, and there are no shade trees. Most of the pull-though sites share a hookup station: each has their own set of water, electric and sewer hookups, but the RVs will point in opposite directions so the hookups end up on the normal side of the rig. That also means your door-side neighbor will also have their door facing you, and the picnic tables for both sites sit in the same area. We stayed in site 51 and had a door-side neighbor, but since none of us hung out outside it wasn’t an issue. Our site was level and the hookup was normally place in relation to the hookups on our rig.

There are a few deluxe pull-through sites that don’t share a hookup station, and also have a furnished concrete patio with an embedded fire pit and a wall of privacy fencing. The 10 tent sites have similar privacy fencing, which was a nice touch. The cabins and the back-in sites for long-term residents are in the back of the campground, which is apparently where the playground and yard games like horseshoes are located (I didn’t see them myself).

Most of the amenities are in and around the office building. The building itself contains the office, laundry facilities, and bathrooms and showers. One one side of the building is a small outdoor seating area, with at least one table under shade. On the other side is a small pool (which was covered the day we were there), a jump pad with a communal fire pit nearby, and - a bit further away - the propane refill station.

The enclosed dog park is on the east side of the campground, and is divided into two sections (one larger, one smaller) by a 3-foot high fence. We only used the larger park, which was mostly dirt/sand and just a small patch of dry grass. The fencing was a wire mesh with subway-tile sized openings rather than a chainlink fence, so a really small dog could potentially squeeze through one of the openings.

In terms of cell service, the best speed I got on my Verizon Jetpack with MIMO antenna was 24Mbps down and 24 up, so streaming video was not a problem. The best speed I got on my AT&T smartphone was 17Mbps down and 7 up.

We would stay here again for an overnight stop if we were in the area.

While the staff we met were friendly and helpful, this KOA is just a parking lot next to the highway and some oil storage tanks. Would be OK if we had a big fancy RV but we don’t so we had to make do in the direct sunshine and 90 degree temps. Positive notes is that the bathrooms are clean and convenient. There are laundry facilities too.

The folks running this were great and I have no issue with them at all. But for the vacationer looking for a place to stay (unless it is for a night or two) it might be best to find something else.
When I hear KOA Journey I tend to have a little bit higher expectations. I don’t know how they classify one from another but I was a little disappointed when we rolled in. I can’t remember any mature trees in the park. Our assigned site was very unlevel, when we first pulled in the center of our spot I didn’t have enough blocks with me to level the trailer. So I ended up pulling the trailer as far to the left as possible and made it work.

Primarily to accommodate mine workers and those of us who expect little, this illustrates what tarnishes the KOA brand these days. For those planning an overnight stop here, you’ll be sandwiched in together at the entrance road. It’s an itinerant parking lot with services. Walmart - I’m serious - often offers more privacy, convenience and less noise. Time we all adjusted our expectations upward and passed on these dives.

I'd say they have a captive audience here, right off I-80. It was the best spot for us to take a break for 2 nights from our cross-country drive before heading into Utah. Positives: Level gravel pull-through site, good cable. Negatives: Although all hookups and utilities worked, they were awkward to set up due to a wooden border around the hookups area (i.e. had to use two long sewer hoses and maneuver them over the wood block border.) Sites extremely close to one another; basically a gravel parking lot. A personal peeve of mine, especially at a KOA site, is no trash pickup at sites and no escort. People were traipsing across the campground to toss garbage bags into overflowing dumpsters. Having said all that, would likely stay again because it's convenient and well-located to I-80.