Silverwood RV Park

We stayed here as we were spending a day at the theme park. Probably one of the better private RV parks or resorts we've been to. The whole reason for staying here is to visit Silverwood, but the RV Park is not underwhelming in spite of the captive audience. It isn't perfect, but it is much better than average.

From what I can tell, great effort was put into ensuring that the sites are level, at least where it counts, where you park your rig. Pull-thru sites are all circular drives, but they are broad circles which works fine for longer rigs. Utility hookups are in good condition. Water pressure is excellent. We had no issue with power fluctuations in spite of the park being quite large and having a lot of rigs plugged in and using A/C.

We had broken toilet fill valve on our rig when we visited, so we were forced to use the public facilities. While the staff did clean them very well, they did so very early in the morning, like 6am. After that the facilities didn't seem to get any more deep cleaning attention. I think there was a staff walk through in the evening, but mostly to ensure that consumables were topped off and excess trash was taken out, but the bathrooms were cleanest and most presentable very early in the morning and after that kind of went downhill. And relative to the number of non-rv tent sites, the quantity of facilities or rather the quantity of shower stalls, toilet stalls, etc. felt sorely limited. The men's bathhouse in the center of the campground had 3 toilets, 3 urinals, 4 showers and 4 sinks. The bathhouse at the front of the park connected to the office/store had 1 urinal, 1 toilet, 2 showers and 2 sinks, and was visibly much older, although modernized. For the number of sites in the park, especially non-rv and unserviced sites, this seems like way too few resources. Ever heard of hot bunking? Well, I experienced the toilet stall equivalent one morning as I had to wait for a stall and there was almost always a guy showing up right as a stall opened up. Also the last morning we were there I showered in the central bathhouse and of the 4 showers, somebody had broken the valve on one of the showers and it was constantly running cold water. Only 3 showers remained and they were almost constantly in use for 2 or 3 hours straight. So, if you are thinking about tent camping there, be forewarned that a full RV park means really full and really busy bathrooms. In short, they need to build another bathhouse and it needs to be at least double the size of the larges one they currently have.

There are some amenities in the campground. A modern set of heavy duty, park grade, playground equipment, a sand pit with volleyball net. All the roads and loops through the campground are paved. The RV pads are all compacted gravel. There is sufficient grass to set up your outdoor area at most campsites. Plus you get discounted park passes from the campground office; so I recommend that you reserve your campsite, and then buy your tickets to the theme park when you arrive

You stay here because you want to go to Silverwood theme park and this park is right at the entrance- your walk is the same as those parking in the parking lot for the day.

For how close the park is to the theme park, a huge parking lot and the highway- its actually not bad at all. The sites are spacious, level , and there is a lot of nice green grass. Most of the sites also have huge gravel tent pads along with the picnic table and fire pit. Has all your typical RV park amenities plus you get a discount on your park admission for staying there.

We were able to book on Thursday for a Saturday spot in July (although we did get the second to last spot). We tried to book at Ravenwood first as we had friends staying there- but they were full that night. We visited there and the park amenities and atmosphere seemed nicer but the spots were closer together-plus you can't walk to the park (although they offer a shuttle).

Our only complaint was the price- close to $60 after taxes and all we really did was sleep there