Terry’s Country RV Park

There are many things to like about this park. If you need to be near Alvin, you are super close but also not too close in to the city. Quick trips to pickup groceries or grab food from restaurants are very easy from here. The park has around 45 or so spaces. Many are full with fulltime residents. Lots of children play here, in a good kind of way. It’s nice to see kids enjoying the outdoors and being kids, not cooped up with video games all day. The stars at night are big and bright here.

The laundry area is well done, with great machines that worked every time we used them ($2 wash, $1.50 dry). The bathrooms are some of the best I have seen, with beautifully tiled showers and décor that you can tell someone put their heart and careful eye into. The park has a homey feel and less of a corporate big RV park vibe.

They also seem to be in a constant state of improvement. For instance, while we were here the wifi got upgraded antennas and our speeds doubled. I saw the owner laying down new gravel in a couple of temporarily empty spaces with his tractor and resetting a swing the kids play on. The new driveway gate at the front was not yet locked/closed when we first got here but after many days of seeing workmen here, they got it working and now the property is gated.

The caretakers and the owners love their facility and try to make it a good place. There are so many things about this location that I wanted so hard to like it overall, but there were issues as well.

Areas that were a bit challenging:
1. The Sewer connections are extremely high up. This makes it hard to drain tanks. We resituated ours four times during our stay and kept having issues. Most people who are fulltime here built wooden supports to drain theirs, which solves the problem. If they are going to be that high, perhaps having something like that available on each site would be good. We used leveling blocks and made a temporary wooden support, but not everyone has wood with them or concrete leveling blocks/cinder blocks to lift the hose that much. Our usual sewer support just was not high enough at all to do the job.

2. Cell phone towers near here are a bit odd. We got signal on Verizon/visible, tmobile, sprint and AT&T at all times. But the speeds were variable between so slow as to be unusable (.1-.5) to sluggish at 2-3 Mbps to usable at 5+. Hard to tell why, honestly. Fog and rain seemed to cause issues with the cell tower speeds but again, never completely lost signal. Sometimes the booster helped and sometimes it did not at all. Sometimes on each carrier we got .5-2 Mbps, often 2-4 and sometimes 5-20 on the same carrier at similar times of day. This is not something they can control but is something to consider if you really need a strong cell signal. We bonded/balanced our different lte connections using Speedify, along with a connection to their wifi and were able to get good signal all the time, no issues. Their wifi started out in the 2-3 range when we got here and when we left (after they worked on the wifi and improved it with better antennas) we were getting 5-6 Mbp/s, which is quite reasonable for park wifi. Their wifi was also inconsistent, flaky or losing the full connection sometimes.

3. The speed limit inside the park is 5mph and is very strictly enforced. You wouldn’t think that was a big deal, but it was actually a challenge to drive that slow. Even with my foot off the gas completely, many times my truck would hit a bump and pick up speed to 6-8, causing me to have to brake regularly in the park. 10 or even 15mph have been my experience in other places. I was fussed at by one of the caretakers when I went 10 in the first few days I was here without realizing it was 5mph and when I was sheepish and apologized and said I was sorry, I had not seen the signs he became frustrated with me and exasperatedly started pointing at the signs and told me he didn’t want to deal with phone calls from parents of kids who live here because I didn’t see the signs. I apologized again, told him I saw them now and he calmed down and was somewhat friendly to me in the future. Just know that the park really revolves around the families that live here, and their kids.

4.To that point, the vast majority of people at this park live here. These are not seasonal sites at an RV resort or campground where snowbirds stay for a few months, these are fulltime residents. For a lot of people, this is home much like an apartment building but with more space for kids to roam. It’s hard to fit their kids’ strollers and all their things into a camper or even a 5th wheel, so the stuff overflows outside. Sometimes big time. Some residents come and go late at night, probably coming in from late shift jobs usually. They aren’t always quiet when they do. Not enough to complain about, but enough to notice. Some of the fulltimers were very willing to share their complaints about the park with us, including some of the same things that we mention above, especially about the internet.

5. I only saw one picnic table in the park. It would be nice to have small tables either at each site or available to be moved to the sites, depending on space. We bought a folding table we will use in other places and it was nice here sometimes to sit outside.

Overall, it is a good park. Between the fulltimer environment and the issues with the septic and internet speeds it's really not for us.

Lovely owners who are finishing the build of this new rv park that boasts some fenced in sites for you and your dog and has a great full kitchen meeting room and pristine laundry and shower/bathroom. Priced right for full hookups and lots of room for Fido to romp in the big hay field out back. Owner baked cookies for us and they gave us little welcome trinkets! Definitely would stay again.