Commercial Parks

Commercial Campgrounds

Our least favorite type of camping is in commercial parks. However, there is no avoiding them when other options are not available. They can be quite expensive, but discounts are available through various discount clubs. We belong/have belonged to Passport America, Escapees, KOA, and Good Sam. We’ve also used discounts from Resort Parks International (RPI), which is an extension of our Thousand Trails membership. 

Below are the commercial campgrounds we’ve stayed in most recently. Click here to see all the commercial campgrounds we’ve stayed in since going full-time.


Country Roads RV Village - Yuma AZ

RATING: ♦♦♦♦♦
  • Dates: Oct 18, 2019 – Nov 18, 2019
  • Length of stay: 30 nights.
  • Cost per night: $550 per month.
  • Discount: Seasonal.
  • Hookups: 50 amp electric, water, and sewer. Cable TV and internet also included.
  • Site number/quality: #1024. Across from community center.
  • Park Quality: This is unquestionably the nicest RV park we have ever visited. It has an extensive community center with thee swimming pools and a spa (plus two satellite centers each with pools), a large ballroom with dancing, entertainment, and other activities every week, bridge and other card games daily, church on Sunday mornings, along with shuffleboard, pickleball, and countless other fun things to do.
  • Access: Easy access off I-8 via Araby Rd exit on 32nd St.
  • Connectivity: Verizon – good, AT&T – good, and T-Mobile -weak.
  • Return yes/no?: Yes.
  • Notes: We like Yuma and we love this park. So we bought a park model here on Nov 18, 2019.
  • Website: Country Roads RV Village


Palm Springs RV Resort (TT) - Palm Desert CA

RATING: ♦♦♦♦
  • Dates: Sep 20, 2019 – Oct 18, 2019
  • Length of stay: 28 nights.
  • Cost per night: $0 for first three weeks + $27 for one week extension.
  • Discount: Thousand Trails Membership.
  • Hookups: 30 amp electric, water, and sewer. 
  • Site number/quality: #152. On main street running down the middle of the park. Several streets, including ours, are newly paved as are the sites on those streets. We also have a nice concrete seating area with a picnic table. 
  • Park Quality: This park is closed during the summer. It just opened back up a few days before we arrived. Almost all the sites were empty in September. But by the beginning of October, it started to fill up. It’s justifiably very popular during the winter. 
  • Access: Easy access off I-10.
  • Connectivity: Verizon – good, AT&T – weak, and T-Mobile -strong. 
  • Return yes/no?: Yes.
  • Notes: The Palm Springs area, which is more properly known as the Coachella Valley, has grown a lot since we first started coming here back in the 1990s. Besides Palm Springs and Palm Desert, the valley contains the cities of Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, La Quinta, Indian Wells and Indio. According to Wikipedia, the valley has a total population of almost 500,000 in April, declining to around 200,000 in July and rising to around 800,000 by January. There is a large population of wintertime residents, aka snowbirds, that at peak times may surpass 100,000, with another 3.5 million annual conventioneers and tourists. As much as we like it here, there’s just a few hundred thousand too many people here.
  • Website: Palm Springs RV Resort

The Grove at Redlands Truck and RV - Redlands CA

RATING: ♦♦♦♦
  • Dates: Sep 18, 2019 – Sep 20, 2019
  • Length of stay: 2 nights.
  • Cost per night: $0 plus repair costs.
  • Discount: N/A.
  • Hookups: 50 amp electric, water, and sewer. 
  • Site number/quality: There are 11 pull-through sites. Each is a level gravel site with a small concrete pad on passenger side. 
  • Park Quality: This RV park is only available to customers of Redland Truck and RV while their rigs are being serviced. It is our second time having service done here. The first time was in April for brakes. This time is was to replace the cooling unit on our Norcold refrigerator. 
  • Access: The campground is just a few blocks off I-10 in the town of Redlands CA, near San Bernardino, and one block from the repair shop itself.
  • Connectivity: Verizon – good, AT&T – good, and T-Mobile -good. 
  • Return yes/no?: If we are anyway near here, we would gladly take our motorhome here for repairs again if needed.
  • Notes: Our refrigerator went out about five weeks ago when we were having our jacks replaced at Winnebago in Junction City. They diagnosed the problem to be our cooling unit. To fix it, they would have had to order a replacement unit, which would take a couple weeks. But we didn’t want to wait around anymore in Oregon, so we decided to have Redlands do it once we got further south. In the meantime, we bought a Knox 12 volt electric cooler and a Coleman ice chest. Between the two, we survived well enough during the summer heat. We considered replacing the Norcold, which runs on either 110v from shore power or propane when on battery power, with a residential fridge, which runs only on 110v. But that would require upgrading the inverter and rewiring the electrical panel in order to run the fridge on battery power when boondocking.  We just couldn’t justify the cost, which would have been over $5,000. The new cooling unit “only” cost $3,000, and is working great so far. 
  • Website: Redland Truck and RV

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Click here to see all the commercial campgrounds we’ve stayed in since going full-time.