Great Falls RV Park — Attraction in Great Falls

The campground is located next to the section of i-15 that passes through Great Falls, but there is no direct access from the highway. If you approach from the east, you’ll pass the park and then take the off-ramp at exit 0 to access it. On your final approach to the campground, you’ll pass under a 14-foot high railroad bridge (if your RV is somehow taller than 14 feet, you’re probably already aware of that). The entrance to the campground which leads to the office is the second entrance on the right after the bridge. The office is about 100 feet from the entrance, and you can park in the right lane to check in.

The office contains a small store with some supplies, refrigerated drinks, and an ATM machine. You can also purchase ice and propane at the office: the propane tank is next to the office building. If you have packages delivered while you’re at the campground, they’ll be dropped off at the office and kept in the front left corner for you to come by and pick up. The small laundry room is to the right of the office, and there are bathrooms at the end of the building. There is another bathhouse building a few rows away from the office.

The campground is a mix of back-in and pull-through sites, but most of the back-in sites are occupied by long-term residents. With the exception of the row in front of the office, the pads are gravel. We stayed at two pull-through sites during our stay, and both were fairly level. There are rules against putting any mats or stakes into the grass: each site has several tiny sprinklers that will pop-up during the overnight hours if it hasn’t rained in awhile. A nice feature of the pull-through sites we had was there was an extra parking space at the rear of the site, you can you park two vehicles at your site. The sites near and east of the office are fairly shaded; the rest of the park is mostly open.

While the residents of the campground are fairly quiet, there is a lot of environmental noise: road noise from I-15, the occasional train horn from the active tracks about a mile away, and the airplanes flying in and out of the airport behind the tall hill off to the west of the campground. And on Friday and Saturday nights during the summer, you can faintly hear the musical acts performing on an outdoor stage at the bar just down the street from the campground (on the other side of the bridge). But all of that is to be expected at a campground on the edge of downtown. And the location has certain advantages: there is a shopping center with a grocery store, a Home Depot, and a few restaurants just a mile away, and a short walk from the campground entrance puts you on a bike trail that parallels the highway and brings you over the Missouri River.

There are plenty of places to walk dogs: inside the campground there is a fenced-in dog area in the southwest corner of the campground, and next to that is a grassy field used as a storage area for boats and RVs. There is a also a forested area just across the street from the campground.

In terms of cell service, the average speed I got on my Verizon Jetpack with MIMO antenna during our stay was about 21Mbps down and 8Mbps up, and we had no real trouble steaming video other than some occasional buffering. The one speed test I did with my AT&T phone showed 60Mbps down and 7 up.

We didn’t originally plan to stay here as long as we did: we had a medical emergency during our initial stay and as a result we had to extend our stay and then make arrangements to come back after a quick trip to Glacier National Park for a medical follow-up. The campground staff told us they always keep one or two sites in reserve for such emergencies and they let us extend our original reservation in the same site so we didn’t have the extra stress of changing sites. So we would definitely stay here again if we were...

Let me start by saying that I am aware that the park is in a transition period with new owners. However, we paid $46 a night for an electric only spot. They told us there was a dish washing station when we got there and bathrooms/shower houses. Our spot was literally a spot on the pavement. No table, no grass, nothing. It felt like we just in the middle of a parking lot. The shower house located right next to us (which we chose specifically because our camper is a retro camper without bathing or bathroom capabilities) was under construction. The men's was completely shut down and non accessible. The women's was in awful shape. The faucet on the sink was hanging off. The door on the toilet stall was broken. The showers were disgusting. Band aids, hair ties, hair, and icky stuff all of the floor. I wouldn't even shower in there. I resorted to sponge baths in my trailer. The second shower house located on the other side of the park (about a 1/4 of a mile away) was no better. Completely disgusting. Again only offering two toilets and two showers. This park is HUGE. With that many people there, it is impossible for these shower houses to accomodate that many people. Staff was constantly seen sitting on the porch smoking cigarettes and just hanging out. Why are they not cleaning these bathrooms? The "Dish Washing Station" was a plastic sink in the laundry room (meant for use for laundry purposes). It was full of icky stuff and lint and other gross things. This is where they said I could wash my dishes. I am sure the people doing laundry don't appreciate dirty dishes being washed here anymore than I want to wash my dishes where someone's shoes and dirty clothes have been. I won't be staying here again. We stayed here while my husband was on a work project. But, next time we will be staying elsewhere. I don't expect things to be fancy at an rv park. But, I do expect a certain level of sanitary and...

Stayed there for 2 days. First off, you're following your GPS down some questionable streets that seem to be leading to a dead end. Pass a bar/casino, under a railroad bridge, and I was beginning to think we were going to have to unhook the toad and back our Motorhome out of there. No signs of any kind of to encourage you onward. Miraculously there was a RV park back there. Neighborhood seemed a little shady, but the park seemed ok. Checked in, was given my site, a back in right in front of the office. I was sure I'd asked for a pull thru, but the confirmation didn't say either way. Backed in the site and it was very obvious that the back end was much higher than the front. Stacked two 2x12's under each front tire and the leveler still almost lifted the front tires off the ground. Anyway, we'd gone through a severe storm of bugs that day and the windshield and front of our rig was coated in bugs. Read the rules, stated that you had to pay to wash your rig, but you could fill a bucket and wash the front. I thought I understood the intent of the rule, don't waste water. I opted to spray the front with water, apply my bug remover, then scrub the bugs off. After that, I rinsed the front off, using probably 2 gallons, but definitely less than a five gallon bucket worth. Didn't work. Man came marching across the drive to tell me that I had to pay because I didn't use a bucket. He either couldn't or wouldn't understand that I used less water by what I'd done than filling a 5 gallon bucket. Didn't matter. I walked across the drive and paid the price. I never travel with more than approximately 30 gallons of water in my fresh water tank, but you can bet that when I left there my 100 gallon tank was full. I won't return. We camped at Great Falls RV Park in...