Has anyone stayed at a KOA campground?

[disykat]

I'm looking for opinions. We're considering a budget road trip this summer (not Disney - Yellowstone actually) and I'm looking into staying in the cabins at KOA as a way to save money, but not have to set up a tent each night. Has anyone done this? We're not very picky, but clean bathrooms are a must. We would stay in the ones that just have beds - no kitchen. On the website it doesn't tell which ones have airconditioning - although I get the impression some do.

Does anyone know anything about these?

 

[monkeyboy]

KOA can range

Most I have been to are very nice

Cabins range from real rustic to very nice cottages

Their website is great, check it out for deatils of which campgrounds have which building

 

[Jennifer S]

I stayed in one in PA and one in VA. Liked both a lot. The kids had a blast. Lots to do there. I'd give it a try. Our bathrooms were clean. There are a lot of KOA's ,each one may be different.

 

[MelessaG]

We stayed at one in SD two summers ago. The grounds themselves were clean, but the pools were very icky and I don't know about the bathrooms since we were in a rented RV. I did like the cabins I saw there, and they were clean from what I could see.

 

[OhMari]

Jelly Stone Camp Grounds also have cabins. I know there are many in Wisconsin, but I don't know about other parts of the states. They run about $55 a nite.

 

[Rozzie]

KOA near West Yellowstone is nice. Rustic, but all the KOA's I have been to (very many) all have nice cabins. Of course, I backpacked through YNP, so what I thought was a treat may not be ideal for others. When I worked at YNP, the cabins at Old faithful and Canyon were great. rustic of course but in the middle of it all. (kinda like staying on site at WDW! )

now the bathrooms, er, all i will say is "the good, bad, and ugly"

 

[disykat]

Thanks everyone. From everything I've read it sounds like it will be just right for us - we don't need luxury just a place to sleep cheap! I looked up the Jelly Stone website and was surprised to see there were actually some near our route so that might be an option too - I didn't know they had any of those around here.

 

[QuiltTeddy]

Always found KOA to be very clean and nice campgrounds.

 

[shortbun]

We stayed in one near Williamsburg. It was great. Bathrooms
were good but not anything special. All their Kabins were
air conditioned. Kabins were very nice btw. One double bed
and one bunk bed. No closet but hanging nobs all around.
Nice deck and pool. Good kids programs.

 

[mickeyboat]

Thanks for bringing back memories. We always stayed at KOA's when I was a kid. I remember a square dance one night at one where I was the only child dancing with about 20 older people. They were getting a huge kick out of it, and I was having a blast.

Denae

 

[disykat]

Thanks for the info everyone!

 

[RoyalCanadian]

In the autumn of 1990 my housemates and I did D.C. on the cheap and stayed in a KOA Kabin in a campground somewhere in Maryland. The exact Kabin has already been described in perfect detail -- nothing special, but rather comfortable. Since we had all spent our time at summer camp there was no problem with the short walk to the showers and washrooms. We enjoyed sitting on the front veranda in the evening, chatting about the day and wondering how much my mother would kill me if she ever found out that I had skipped an entire week's worth of seminary classes to go to Washington DC with the boys. She was visiting her sisters in England at the time.
We drove about 20 minutes each morning to a Metro station nearby -- parked the car and enjoyed the day in DC. A great way to visit a nice city without spending a ton of money.