Desert Rose RV Park

Stayed here in late July for an overnight stop. Needed an RV site with power due to heat. Desert Rose RV Park provided just what we needed. Easy to get to location off 80, nice pull thru site with friendly staff.
Bathroom/shower house was very clean and well kept and appeared to be updated recently. Stayed hitched up on the concrete pad that was pretty level. Slept well and got off early the next morning with no issues. Would stay here again.

We only stayed one night but it’s a great park. Very clean and well maintained. Laundry & showers were inside the same building with a little activity room and take a book/movie, leave one. Very warm and welcoming. Wifi was great - you could see the repeaters around the property - we were able to work (including a zoom call) and stream no problem.

We were originally trying to book a space somewhere in Reno, NV for Hot August Nights but everything we could fit into was booked, so we found the Desert Rose in Fernley and we're very glad we did. Yeah, it's about an hour into Reno, but that doesn't bother us... others might think that's too far.

Well maintained, good shade trees... Carl, our escort, was great, as was the receptionist in the main office. Our space is a little low in front, but nothing our leveling jacks can't handle. 50 amp seems good, water is fine, our cable doesn't work but we don't care.

Yeah, we'd definitely stay here again.

We stayed here for a quick overnight on I80. This was a nice park with clean level sites. Some sites have shade and grass between the sites. Clean common area with showers and laundry. We were here because AC was required, but I think with the windows open and the AC off the road noise would have been a problem from the highway. There are plenty of long term people staying and they do have some early shifts but everyone was quiet and even though the park was full it was relatively quiet in the park itself.

The RV park was easy to find and enter. Check in was smooth with a very friendly staff, and we were escorted to pull through site 150 with FHUs for our three day stay. The utilities are nicely placed on the middle of the pad. Site 150 is a premium pull through. The only thing that makes this site premium is the concrete pad, small grass front yard, and shade trees; as there is no picnic table, patio, or fire pit. Sites are near each other throughout the park. We really didn’t see where any sites were better spaced than others. We received a Good Sam discount for the nightly rate, which basically paid for the lodging tax. Then there’s a $2 resort fee and $3 per pet fee ($6 for our two pets) with other charges if you bring additional people and vehicles with you. The WiFi was average for a park this size. Cable did not work, but they were trying to get the cable company to come fix it and now looking for a new cable company. However, we got a fair amount of OTA channels, with two prime channels. We got 2 bars on Verizon. There’s an interesting mix of full timers, seasonal, and short termers. I state interesting as many of the permanent party live along the South to West perimeter. Most take pride in their sites but as good as the park sites look towards the front it degrades in too many sites looking like, well, a “trailer park”. There’s a very clean and well maintained facility with a Rec Room, showers and nice big laundry. We like the rule where a site can only use two machines at a time. Unless you want to trek out into the desert where the Quads and ATVs go, there are no trails here to walk your dog, but there is a small fenced, off-leash dog area, which was nice. We thought this park would be more of a destination park and for us, it was not. This park had the worse road noise we've experienced after two years on the road. Our sound machine could not drown out the internal park muffler rumbles of locals going to work that started about 4:00 AM, the highway noise all day plus most of the night, and the 5:30ish AM train. We stayed here three nights based on reviews from other websites. Our opinion overall, this place is nothing special. However, it is a good overnighter and could be an option to explore the Reno area.

This is the only RV park in Fernley I've found that caters to overnighters. Today I made a reservation for one night in September. After answering their questions re: rig type, # of people, pets, etc., was shocked when I received the confirmation email.

In addition to the $38 reservation fee for one night (minus $5.70 discount for Escapees), upon check-in I would be charged:
$4.00 extra for 4 people inhabiting the RV (?)
$2.00 resort fee
$3.55 lodging tax
$1.00 charge for the vehicle towing the RV into the park (?)
$1.00 pet fee for a PROFESSIONALLY TRAINED SERVICE DOG for our son who has a physical disability. When making the reservation, I made a point of mentioning that the dog is not a pet, but a service dog.

When I called back to politely question the service dog fee and point out that federal and Nevada state law prohibit public accommodations from charging a "pet fee" for service animals, I was told that the policy of the park is to charge a fee for "pets" and that they "have a nice dog park." $1 is not worth fighting for, but due to this and the other unusual fees, I've cancelled our reservation and we'll just push through to our next destination.

This is a well kept campground run by kind and helpful staff. Check in was quick and easy, but despite still being under a state indoor mask mandate, there were none to be seen here.
The layout and spacing is pretty typical of commercial camping with level sites throughout. Our pull-through site was easy to access, and while we fit, it was snug all the way around. Our utilities were easy to reach and worked well, including a heated water hook-up (handy here in the winter), and our Verizon service worked well without a booster. The park is pretty tight on space and low on grass for dog walking, but they do offer a reasonably sized dog run and there is an open field behind that park that worked well for us. There is only a little road noise, thanks to their privacy wall, but there is a lot of coming and going throughout the park (though every car that passed, drove slowly, and I didn’t hear a single car stereo).
This CG is more expensive than what we usually pay for this type of site/location, and their actual pricing is a little different/vague from what I saw on their website - nightly we paid $44.18: $38 for March/Winter + $1 resort fee + $1 pet fee + $4.18 tax.

Admittedly, Fernley is an ‘on-the-way’ location for most travelers so having a well managed, clean, safe and friendly place is what you want. This is just that. Really clean and well laid out bathrooms and site layouts are very well done. The folks are helpful, the place relatively quiet, and while Nevada looks like Afghanistan with gambling, we had great sunsets and quiet Saturday night, just what you want after an I-80 drive.