Nevada County Fairgrounds — Attraction in Grass Valley

I first stayed in 108A (water and electric only) and then moved to a full hook up site. Check in was easy and the host was very friendly and helpful. The partial hook up sites looks like at one time were single sites but converted to dual sites. There is only one 30 and one 50 outlet on the shared pedestal so if two trailers using the pedestal both want 50 amp, one is going to be out of luck. One can pull in a site from either direction. There is little shade. This is basically a big open field with electric pedestals and water spigots added. 1-2 bars AT&T, Verizon works better here. Wifi is available. Plenty of antenna TV channels. Pay extra to use dump site. No campfires. No picnic tables, basically a field with water and electric hook up $35 daily. Bathrooms are available. The full hook up sites don't share pedestals and they have a picnic table. I paid $40 for full hook up at site 08FH. There are no fire rings but I think one can rent a propane firepit there for a reasonable cost. Propane is available at the fairgrounds for a suprisingly cheap price per gallon. There are flies here, probably because of nearby horses, but it's by no means terrible. I'd stay here again if I were coming back to the area.

UPDATE FOR SECOND STAY

We camped at Nevada County Fairgrounds RV Park site 18 in a 36’ 5th wheel camper. I was disappointed in our site because 6 months out I reserved site 12 and received an email confirmation for it. 1 day prior to arrival they called for payment and told me “I have you down for site 18”. The site I reserved was longer and a pull through site. The site I got was supposed to be a pull through but I had to back in because there is a utility pole located at the rear of the site that prevents pulling through.

This is the second time I’ve stayed at this RV Park. I would stay again as it’s convenient for the area and there’s really not much else to choose from. I paid $40 a night for full hook up; there are no discounts that I know of. It’s a pretty quiet place.

The pull through sites are gravel and grass. There isn’t much shade. The roads are gravel and they sometimes have a truck that sprays water on them to keep the dust down. There is a nearby pond and geese frequent the RV Park. There is goose poop everywhere. I could get 1 bar AT&T cell signal, which was sometimes not useable at all. My wife could get 2 bars Visible (Verizon) that was useable but slow. Wi-Fi network NCFG Guest appears but I could never connect. I paid $2.89 / gallon for propane which is a decent price for places like this.

The hosts on duty are friendly and try to accommodate your needs. As there was space available I was able to move into a partial hook up site for a few more days after I reached my 7-day recreational limit in the pull through site. My partial hook up site, site 115, was only 30 amps, had partial shade and was all grass. It cost $35 daily. It was in a pleasant location, not side by side like the full hook up sites are. The sign on the dump station says $15. I dumped at my next camping location.

Gate 4 to the RV Park is locked with a chain and padlock. They provide the combination prior to your arrival and ask that you keep it locked. I guess this is due to COVID, as it was never locked when I stayed here before. Locking and unlocking the gate is annoying.

When choosing a site compare a satellite view on google maps to the campground map to help you choose as the campground map is somewhat different from the...

mostly I have been here for the spring strawberry music festival events since they moved from nearer yosemite after the rim fire. Unlike the very remote older location, these fairgrounds are only about 5 minutes to downtown grass valley by car or 15 by bicycle or 25 walking (and fairly hilly), so campers at the festival can go to town and get stuff that they forgot or buy more food or whatever. Cell phone signals and internet-bandwidth are available from local towers. Some people don't like that, insisting that it spoils the isolated "mountain" culture of the old festival, but I live in mountains myself and have fewer idealistic notions about that. I like it even though you can hear some highway noise from CA-20 and the relatively busy road on the north side of the park as well. It's still a nice piece of real estate, with a small lake that allows kids (but not adults) to fish apparently. The terrain is flat on the south end and hilly on the north end, so if you want to let kids ride their bikes, make sure their brakes are working correctly.

The fairgrounds also have about fifty RV spaces, year around (I presume by reservation especially in peak vacation periods) and most of them are full hook-ups. They have a dump site but since that is part of the festival entry fee, I don't know how much the fairgrounds RV park charges for that stuff otherwise. During the festival, most campers are parking RVs and pitching tents in non-hookup locations in the larger parking areas, but reserved guests (some not for the festival, but just staying for other reasons) are also using the RV hookups. Inside the fairgrounds there are concessions and restrooms and other forms of entertainment depending on what events are going on, but during the festival you do need to pay an entry fee to go "inside the gates" for the entertainment and concessions.

It can be a bit tricky to make the correct turns when heading to the fairgrounds from the CA-49 interchange with CA-20 so watch the signs or better still...

family and I have been residents of Nevada County for nearly 20 years and in that time I have never seen or been a victim of such willful discrimination and vicious approach by an employee of any business, let alone someone so closely associated with a County position. As such, after hearing from you in response, hopefully very shortly, I will be sharing this letter in form of review on Google, Facebook and other social media outlets. I am a quite popular reviewer and am read by many on a frequent basis. This is probably something else you should remind your staff at regular meetings: media is highly considered as the “fourth branch” of government and social media is becoming more like a “third and a half branch,” so we all must be mindful of how we come off as people, employees and “hostesseses” in this very cold, unforgiving world because it could be broadcast by anyone.

Thank you very much for your time this morning sir and apologize for the lengthy complaint. My fiancee and I are just so very appalled by your employee’s lack of skill, ability or willingness to be even slightly human towards us we felt the need to share it with the highest of officers within your organization.

Again, thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Stephanie Truscott And Marc Eller

I do apologize for any misunderstanding of the procedures required by visitors and patrons, but from what I have experienced, especially coming in late, tired and road-weary, they aren’t exactly uncomplicated or...