Boise campground or RV park March 07, 2012, 02:53:22 pm Yahoo Message Number: 128982Hi All, My wife and I are going to be spending a few weeks in Boise in May. I'd appreciate any recommendations for campgrounds or RV parks in or near the city. Proximity to downtown and the airport would be advantageous. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.Terry2003 26.5'RB Gardnerville, NV
Re: Boise campground or RV park Reply #1 – March 07, 2012, 03:29:27 pm Yahoo Message Number: 128983Quote Hi All, My wife and I are going to be spending a few weeks in Boise in May. I'd appreciate any recommendations for campgrounds or RV parks in or near the city. Proximity to downtown and the airport would be advantageous. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.Terry 2003 26.5'RB Gardnerville, NV Terry, it has a couple of years since I worked the area but I stayed out in Nampa at Mason Creek RV. Nothing fancy but very adequate. http://travel.yahoo.com/p-hotel-6598824-mason_creek_rv_park-i You don't want to stay at the KOA by the airport, it is in flight path unless they moved to different location.Joe Hamm
Re: Boise campground or RV park Reply #2 – March 07, 2012, 03:33:23 pm Yahoo Message Number: 128984Quote Hi All,"Proximity to downtown and the airport would be advantageous."Terry 2003 26.5'RB Gardnerville, NV Never had much experience with Boise, other than spending one night in a dump of a campground just one cinderblock's width from the freeway. However, GS Campground Guide lists three Good Sam parks in the city. The highest rated (9.0) is the Boise Riverside RV Park, 6000 N. Glenwood St. 83714 (800-375-7432) and is only ten miles north of the airport and even closer to downtown.Hope this helps! Check for their web-site.Steve S. Lazy Bones & Jiggs
Re: Boise campground or RV park Reply #3 – March 07, 2012, 03:35:59 pm Yahoo Message Number: 128985tlburnes wrote: My wife and I are going to be spending a few weeks in Boise in May. I'd appreciate any recommendations for campgrounds or RV parks in or near the city. Proximity to downtown and the airport would be advantageous. --- Hi, Terry, Just a suggestion: Mountain View RV Park is pretty close to the airport and fairly accessible (Boise has really grown and spread out a *lot* in the past several years!) to the "downtown" areas of Boise. The park is near the highway, so it can be a little noisy, and I remember that the sites are pretty close together, but that's usually SOP with RV parks.http://boiservpark.com/Joan
Re: Boise campground or RV park Reply #4 – March 07, 2012, 03:49:26 pm Yahoo Message Number: 128986Mountain View RV Park is pretty close to the airport and fairly accessible to the "downtown" areas of Boise. The park is near the highway, so it can be a little noisy, and I remember that the sites are pretty close together, but that's usually SOP with RV parks.QuoteJoan Ah Ha! Thanks for jogging my memory Joan... this is the dump I stayed at the last time through Bosie. It's so close to the freeway you can feel the ground shake and forget trying to sleep unless you have ear plugs.Steve S. Lazy Bones & Jiggs
Re: Boise campground or RV park Reply #5 – March 07, 2012, 04:03:31 pm Yahoo Message Number: 128987QuoteAh Ha! Thanks for jogging my memory Joan... this is the dump I stayed at the last time through Bosie. It's so close to the freeway you can feel the ground shake and forget trying to sleep unless you have ear plugs.Steve S. Lazy Bones & Jiggs Steve, out of curiosity I looked at the Mtn View Website which showed some pretty attractive photos (of course!). What is going on there that makes it a "dump" that doesn't show in the photos?Chris
Re: Boise campground or RV park Reply #6 – March 07, 2012, 04:11:51 pm Yahoo Message Number: 128988lejest2003 wrote: this is the dump I stayed at the last time through Bosie. --- I don't remember Mountain View as a "dump"; the sites are closely spaced, but the place was pretty well kept and tidy. Of course, I was there only for an overnight to pick somebody up from the airport, not for "weeks", so I didn't pay any attention to any noise. I made the suggestion because the place does meet Terry's criteria of being close to the airport and being accessible to the downtown areas of Boise. Not many choices in Boise proper!As ever, YMMV.Joan
Boise campground or RV park Reply #7 – March 07, 2012, 04:13:38 pm Yahoo Message Number: 128989Quote Just a suggestion: Mountain View RV Park is pretty close to the airport and fairly accessible (Boise has really grown and spread out a *lot* in the past several years!) to the "downtown" areas of Boise. The park is near the highway, so it can be a little noisy, and I remember that the sites are pretty close together, but that's usually SOP with RV parks. Hi Joan Thanks for the tip. We also will be staying in Boise for a few days in May. We will make reservations at the Mountain View as it is only four miles from where we are going. We overnight occasionally in rest stops near freeways and car and truck noise has never kept us awake. Nor does airplane noise. Nor does really anything with the exception of large diesel pickups in nearby campsites idling for 5 or 10 minutes at at a time. Why do they do that? Just to annoy people :>) ? Tom
Re: Boise campground or RV park Reply #8 – March 07, 2012, 05:27:58 pm Yahoo Message Number: 128990On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 14:13:16 -0800, "Tom Johnston" johnstn@...> wrote:QuoteNor does really anything with the exception of large diesel pickups in nearby campsites idling for 5 or 10 minutes at at a time. Why do they do that? Just to annoy people :>) ? Tom You get a lot of that at private campgrounds. Especially the easy-on, easy-off ones. We just spent a month at a really nice place in the Texas Valley. Every day, we heard the freaking diesel's. Tonight we are parked in a large field - several football fields large. One other rig is with us. Life is good. Well, maybe not all that good, as rain is on the way for several days.PS Tom, a .50 will stop all noise from a diesel and Red Jacket now makes a silencer for them.
Re: Boise campground or RV park Reply #9 – March 07, 2012, 05:29:40 pm Yahoo Message Number: 128991Quote "Steve, What is going on there that makes it a "dump" that doesn't show in the photos?"Chris Chris Glad you asked! When you are tooling down the freeway you better know the exit # or you'll fly right on by. Then, once you make the exit you have to double back into an industrial area following the streets that they give in their directions. As you approach the CG it's confusing as to where the entrance is located. You first come to the EXIT and have to bypass that to get to the entrance and the office which is not too well identified. It looks for all the world like it might be a garden shed. Then, once in the park you find that you are sandwiched in between your neighbors and hope to heaven that the vehicle parked across the street is gone in the morning when you want to depart because if not you're stuck. Talk about tight quarters! Then there's that "sound wall" that separates the park from the freeway. Like I said, just one cinder-block thick. And, if you have a pet the office will direct you to their "dog Walk", a vacant weed overgrown lot across the street from the park (and not part of it), despite the fact that they advertise a 'dog walk' in their literature. And so, next time I pass through Boise I will NOT be spending a restless night at the Mountain View (which mountain I never did see).Steve S. Lazy Bones & Jiggs
Re: Boise campground or RV park Reply #10 – March 07, 2012, 10:07:21 pm Yahoo Message Number: 129011Yes, we stayed at Mt. View RV Park this summer and DO NOT recommend it. Convenient, yes, but VERY NOISY!Pat & Gary from Portland in Phideaux[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: Boise campground or RV park Reply #11 – March 12, 2012, 10:15:16 pm Yahoo Message Number: 129096To all who made some recommendations for a place to stay
Re: Boise campground or RV park Reply #12 – March 13, 2012, 11:57:00 am Yahoo Message Number: 129117Quote To all who made some recommendations for a place to stay in Boise, a big thank you. After reading your comments and doing some other research my conclusion is that there really aren't any superior places to stay there. Surprising that such an "outdoor" city doesn't have better camping nearby. A scenic state park would be nice, eh? Anyway, despite some advice to the contrary I think we'll stay at Mountain View RV Park. On the plus side it seems well managed and is the most convenient for our stay. On the negative side, freeway noise and a bit crowded and "tight." We'll only be there about a week and will be away from the park most days. After that we move to McCall and hope to stay at Ponderosa State Park, which sounds nice.Thanks again for your help.Terry 2003 26.5'RB Gardnerville, NV Terry, in the spirit of Paul Theroux, and using your considerable writing skills at travellogese, I'm sure you will provide us with a full report of your stay at this campground. We shall be waiting...Chris
Re: Boise campground or RV park Reply #13 – March 13, 2012, 01:30:49 pm Yahoo Message Number: 129121Quote Hi All, My wife and I are going to be spending a few weeks in Boise in May. I'd appreciate any recommendations for campgrounds or RV parks in or near the city. Proximity to downtown and the airport would be advantageous. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. This may be too late for you, Terry, but we stayed at the Boise Riverside RV park a couple years ago. It's right on the river and the Green Belt. Here's the site: http://www.boiseriversidervpark.com We found it pleasant. We were in a site that backed up to the river and there was paved walk/bike path for miles. Clarkie
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