Rocky Mountain RV Park & Lodging

Sites and park very clean, neat and tidy. GREAT location for visiting Yellowstone National Park.

$59 is the nightly rate--don't forget to add "kid tax", $4/each! This is a STANDARD site, not deluxe. You can do a load of laundry in a small washing machine for $3. Then dry it (maybe get it dry) for $2. Tiny mini putt course available for free (what, no extra charge?)

Sites so tight you have to walk through your neighbors "front yard" while they are sitting there in order to plug in or hook up water.

LOTS of rules! Don't know how much some of them are really enforced ("Check out time 10:30-NO EXCEPTIONS!") No campfires, though there really isn't room for a fire ring anyway. Patrolled, but that's a good thing.

Neighborhood with apartments and single fam homes next to park has vehicles coming and going on gravel all times of day/night. Many bright lights from homes detracts from the outstanding dark night sky.

This is in a great location for visiting Gardiner and it's right at the north entrance to Yellowstone. But the sites are really close together, and they charge a "kid tax". Kid tax is what we fulltime RV'ing families call it when an RV park charges extra for kids. Hotels do not charge extra for our kids to be in the room with us so it makes no sense for RV parks to charge extra for our kids to be in our RV. Plus my parents joined us for part of the week and it was extra for them to stay in our RV also. That made this park very expensive and considering how close we were to our neighbor, we just didn't think it was worth $70 a night. But, the location was where we wanted to be so it worked out. If we're in the area again though, we would probably look for some place else that doesn't charge extra for kids. Verizon 4G coverage was good here.

This is the closest RV park to the North entrance of Yellowstone National Park, about fifteen minutes from the Mammoth Hot Springs. Our site was a pretty average full hookup site with distant mountain views. The park also has a number of cabins.

There is a large laundry facility on site along with restrooms and showers. The campground also has a gift/souvenir shop with a little convenience store. There is a little fenced-in leash free area for dogs, the park itself is not the greatest place for walking a dog.

The location is in the center of the town of Gardiner, with a full grocery store nearby, as well as shops and restaurants. Aside from being minutes away from the park entrance, the Yellowstone Association office is just blocks away. This non-profit focuses on education and sells educational materials and their volunteers can provide information about Yellowstone National Park.

There is also a Visitor Center at Mammoth Springs. On route to Mammoth Springs, there is an area where big-horned sheep are frequently seen. Yellowstone is a huge park and there is no location that is close to everything, even within the park. Lamar Valley, one of two areas where wolves reside, is about an hour and twenty minutes away.