Location / Name: OK RV Park, 3310 Spanish Valley Trail, Moab, UT

Date: 08/27-29/2016 (3 nights)

Moab, UT is a town I wanted to visit on our trip so we could see Canyonlands and Arches National Parks, and it was around my 300 mile travel day target from our prior stop in Granby, CO. I Googled for some campgrounds, and the location, price, and reviews for OK RV Park were on target. I didn’t make reservations before the start of our journey (although I had a reserved night that I didn’t use in Arches National Park – it was too hot to do without air conditioning), but I called from Stillwater Campground in Granby, CO on the 26th, and reserved 2 nights. My wife and I had decided we’d go for a bit longer day than originally planned and not move one day anyway – I was ready for a layover, and my wife was a bit under the weather. When we spent the first night and then the 28th in Canyonlands National Park, we decided to drop the Arches reservation. OK was able to accommodate us for an extra day, so we were here for 3 nights.,

General description of park/area:

Moab is a well-known outdoor destination for mountain biking, 4-wheeling, and romping the backroads of the mountains in Jeeps, but it is also in close proximity to two GREAT National Parks – Canyonlands and Arches. In addition, Dead Horse State Park is reported to be fabulous, but we didn’t make it there. The Colorado River created the valley in which Moab resides, and rafting and kayaking that river are exciting activities available as well. Moab is a really interesting, mainly tourist town. Many campgrounds are available, motels and hotels, restaurants and shops, and many outfitters to help you enjoy the excitement of this part of the country.

General description of campground:

OK RV Park is a family-run operation – really nice people – about 5 miles south of Moab just off the main road, on Spanish Valley Trail, which runs parallel to US 191. This is a good location, but with the above-mentioned parks north of town, other RV parks would be closer. However, at only 5 miles south of town, and with the views along US 191, the extra drive isn’t bad. It is a very nicely laid out campground, with most spaces having more room than many. It is clean, has many pull-thru sites, great shade, and some REALLY nice back-in sites (1-4). It has only a single bathhouse in a building attached to the office about the middle of the park.There are a few tent sites and prefab building outfitted as cabins as well.

Access: The park is 5 miles south of Moab, which is about 30 miles south of I-70. The roads are good; there should be no access problems for rigs of any size. There might be a couple of tight turns getting into some of the park’s pull-thru sites, but only for the biggest of rigs. Park driveways are gravel.

Site: We were in site #54, a back-in site in a corner of the park. As with all the sites, it is level, and has full hookups. The wooden picnic table is movable, and I moved it to allow me to back the trailer a little deeper into the site. There was some red dirt here and there that we had to walk through; that was an issue when we got a little rain, since it turned into a sticky mud. Site #54 seemed a bit smaller than other sites, but it was a step up in roominess and privacy from a couple of nights before over in the Denver area.

Electric: 50/30/20 amp at all sites. I used a basic analyzer/surge protector, and the 30-amp circuit passed the tests. It did not test for high/low voltage. The post was at the back of the site behind the water. Standard 25’ power cord should reach without problems unless your connection is near the front and you don’t want to back in deeply.

Water: Water connections are available at all RV campsites. I used a pressure reducer; pressure was good. The hydrant is on the driver’s side of the back-in site, and was only a few feet from my water connection. In fact, it was a bit too close as deeply as I backed into the site, and I had to walk around the hydrant for all service activities on that side of my trailer.

Bathhouse: Quite clean. It was about 50 yards from our site, the limit of how far my wife likes to be. There are 2 toilets, 2 shower stalls, and 1 sink. I thought there might be congestion at the single sink, but that was never an issue when I was there. There was soap and paper towels at the sink. Bathmats were provided for the showers, which had curtains separating the ample dressing area from the rest of the bathroom. The dressing area had multiple hooks for hanging towels/clothes, a chair, and a table. The shower, with a curtain, was a real shower stall, so there was no problem with water getting into the dressing area. The shower had a removable shower head, and great water temperature adjustment and pressure.

Sewer: Sewer hookup at sites; did not notice a dump station.

Cell Phone Service: Good Verizon cell service; good 4G hotspot service. Wifi was “available” at the park, but we were able to get a usable connection only once, and that was around 6:30 in the morning.

Trash disposal: Dumpsters are located near the back of the campground. Recycling for plastic, glass, and aluminum. This was a bit of a walk for us, but a nice view of the rim while doing so.

Cost: $30 per night for full hookups was an August special ($33.14 with tax.) Regular rates are $39 to $45 per night. Call 435-259-1400 for current rates.

Supplies/Food: Moab doesn’t have a Walmart, but I can’t imagine there is anything you could need that you can’t get in that city. We stopped at City Market on the way out of town, getting some supplies, and coffee at the Starbucks within the store. City Market is part of the Kroger organization, so you get a discount on many items if you have a Kroger card.

T@b Note:

On our drive from Granby, CO, to Moab, UT, we took a backroad – The Trough – into the Colorado River gorge. This is a 25-mile dirt road (except for a couple of miles of pavement on the steep part of the descent into the gorge) which is so far one of the highlights of our 10-day drive from Georgia to Boise. The T@b handled the dirt road beautifully.

This was one of the better segments of the trip, both in beauty and fuel economy. Our Highlander got 16.3 mpg for the 318 mile drive from Granby, CO to Moab. Part of that was due to the nearly 4,000’ drop in elevation between the cities.