Border Inn Casino & RV Park

Easy in/out plenty of room for our 40' Motorhome. Friendly staff. Sites are level and there is room on either side. Full hooks, picnic tables, shade trees, gravel roads. Sites are gravel as well. There are some full-time residents. Quiet place. They have a restaurant which prepares good food, a casino (slots only), and a laundry which we did not use. Lots of dogs wandering around but they were not a problem. The only issue for us was the water faucet was stripped so we used a neighbor's water supply. AT&T 2 bars 5G signal. WiFi gave us 3-4 bars during our stay. Cleanliness was good. We would stay here again.

We are full-timers in a 36 ft Class A with a Cherokee Trailhawk tow. We stayed in site 11 for 5 days in early June, waiting for a package to be delivered to the Baker Post Office. The CG has 50A service with FHUs, sites are pretty level and most have a medium tree and picnic table. There were only a handful of other RVs here during our stay, but there were several permanent residents here as well. Most people only overnight here on their travels east or west along the “Loneliest Road in America”. The staff was friendly and helpful. It’s in a convenient location for visiting Great Basin NP. They also have 2 EV charging stations. The restaurant makes a pretty good breakfast burrito too. If you have a dog, there is a long gravel road leading out from the back to walk it.

AT&T coverage was good, with 2 bars of 5G and speeds up to 7 MB/s. We had access all 3 western DISH satellites and Starlink had speeds up to 12 MB/s.

We pulled in with no reservations on a Tuesday, based on FCFS status in other reviews. Well, they do take reservations now (I could have called to double check). However, it was no issue and we got a site with no issues. Nice view of Wheeler Mountain! The laundry is a bit cramped, but it exists and is fine. The food at the grill is quite tasty and a welcome change from cooking on the road. Everyone we talked to on staff was pleasant and happy to assist with any questions. Nice little no frills campground that we would stay at again.

This is a first come first serve campground behind the gas station/casino. There are pull through sites and we had no issues finding space for our 42' 5th wheel. They are full hookup sites with 50 amp service. We went into the casino to pay and it was $25 per night plus tax. There is also a dump station with potable water for those passing through.

Overall the campground was fairly quiet, but you are next to a main highway. The sites are in a gravel lot, but they aren't crammed in too tight. The casino, bar, and gas station are open 24/7 and the grill is open until 9:30pm. The staff were very friendly and helpful.

There is wifi in the casino and you can get the signal just outside on the picnic tables. The wifi is hit or miss though. It was great starting around 7pm, but was marginal during the day and wouldn't hold a video call. The cell phone service with Verizon was 3G with 3 bars of talk. I had no problem with phone calls. We did have 4G ATT service with 3 bars of talk. It wasn't LTE, but it was enough for one of us to have a video call during the day. We did use our booster with ATT and it made a slight difference, but could not get any better service with Verizon. We couldn't get anything with Sprint.

Planned to stay here while visiting Great Basin NP as the others in the NP and in Baker were full, however the cell service here for both Sprint and Verizon is 3G Extended ONLY, NOT LTE and that is with the WeBoost booster. Had to move on as bandwidth tests with Ookla and with Open Signal both FAILED and we had work and school obligations requiring more.

Nearest LTE coverage in the direction we were headed was Milford, UT, 83 mi SE. There's a lot of beautiful nothing in this part of the country.

If you need a spot to stay for the night on the road, this works. The location is close to Great Basin National Park which is convenient. The RV park itself is very basic with full hookups, level gravel sites. It looks primarily like a resident RV park that isn’t well cared for. Our nearest neighbor was an old beater looking trailer with plywood protecting the wheels and had 6 cars parked around it. Across the park where several single wide trailer homes with some weeds growing around them and an old mattress on the ground. It made me a little uneasy. The Hwy noise went on all night and we got woken up by a big rig backing up near our campsite and then running the engine for over an hour.

Our first choice for the night (Sacramento Pass) had no cell service (I work from the road) and we weren't sure about availability at Great Basin NP so we kept going and this is where we ended up after an exhausting 2 days of travel from Reno, NV (which included a breakdown in Eureka). Location has lots of conveniences (store, bar, restaurant...didn't eat...pool tables, old school slot machines that still take/dispense coins, friendly staff) but the water for the showers onsite were never warm enough to use. Gravel sites with some trees for shade (first row) and full hook-ups. Permanent trailers at the edge of the park are well-kept. Great location for accessing Great Basin (which is why we came this direction in the first place) and pretty sunsets. Very quiet at night. We stayed a second night due to high winds all over the area.

Verizon was 4 bars 3G Extended, good enough for emails, accessing Internet. We do not stream.

We had one of the wildest experiences of our lives in this little casino with some space to park out back.

The sun setting over Utah was blinding us through a dirty windshield. The route long, and with limited vision, an otherwise easy drive proved significantly treacherous. Thus, we pulled into the Border Inn and pulled up a chair in the church basement style casino / eatery / pool hall.

The beers were domestic and the food completely unmemorable. We likely would have went straight to bed if it weren't for the interesting trio that approached us, perhaps because we were the only other young people (this was a couple of years back, FYI) in a fifty mile radius.

One of the young men was clearly Limp Bizkit, the other bore a goatee that exclaimed he could eat a tin can with no problem, and their lady companion was the first to greet us. We played pool, and video games. We drank beers. We listened to stories of their goat, and what good he could or could not do. Before we went to bed, they gave us presents and wished us well.

They worked in the gift shop. That's where they got the gifts from.

Though the site had amenities such as hookups, we needed them not, as we were now the proud owners of snow globes and "Remember when..." pamphlets from days long gone by...

I don't know if we weren't aware of Great Basin National Park back then, or the sun had simply burned our retinas useless for more driving, but I would probably try and shoot for the park as opposed to this place next time. Unless I wanted to loosen my wallet on the slot machines, of course...