Kootenai County Fairgrounds RV Park — Local services in Hayden

$109 to be belittled by camp hosts apparently angry about where bad retirement planning had landed them.

Upon my arrival in just the first three minutes I was verbally assaulted by my less then desirable camp hosts. I finally had to stop that show and make it abundantly clear I didn't pay $109 for 2 days to be treated like someone's dirty laundry. At the end of which my lovely hostess proclaimed "I can have you f'ing evicted". Now we were aware WA State had those oversized murder hornets but didn't realize they had crossed into Idaho.

I thought "evicted" a strange term for someone with limited vocabulary and customer service skills to match. The park had no apparent permanent residents and a max stay of 14 days. So I did a little digging. There sits that same verbage redundantly repeated, once in paragraph form and directly below that paragraph as a bullet point on the web page, which you can not get to from their main page because the web admin is also apparently a novice at the job too and renamed the RV Park page but didn't update the main page links.

Maybe you wouldn't have to evict anyone if you greeted them with the courtesy one might use on something like, lets say, a paying customer.

Another thing that should make you go hmm. Notice when you checkout online,  they have a some legalese that proclaims they do not guarantee your site will be available.

We've been camping full-time 4 years now and have never seen an eviction threat or a non-guaranteed reservation system. Reminded me of the Seinfeld episode with the rental car. Just...

This is the nicest fairground RV park we’ve ever stayed in. Full hookups at every site. All the sites and interior roads are paved. There is decent spacing between sites with nice green grass – which the camp hosts tend to diligently. There is no privacy and no trees for shade. All the sites appear mostly level with some sites longer than others. We were in one of the longer sites and it was just long enough for the MH and toad. Great electric – our three ACs ran a lot during a hot spell of 100 for over a week and never experienced a blip. It was sooo hot that all we did was shop and drink beer! Satellite would not be a problem. There is no WII FI but Verizon was 4g 4-5 bars so our hot spots worked fine. It is quiet at night but Dalton road is busy during the day. Coeur d’Alene is a much bigger town than we expected. All the big box stores are there as well as a plethora of restaurants and breweries. The main focus of activity is, of course, the lake. There are public beach areas, and they were packed. Boats are available for rent, and they are very expensive. Every person we interacted in this town was exceptionally friendly … did they all take some special class?...

We were scrambling a bit as we drove into town in early August because we didn't have a campground reserved and everywhere we called was full. We drove past several parks with trailers crammed next to each other in a complex puzzle. And then we found the wide open fairground spots. And for only $40 a night with full hookups (50amp, water, sewer).

We were late enough in the year that it had cooled down so we didn't mind having no shade trees. We lucked out and they booked us on one of the pull-through asphalt handicapped spots for the 4 nights we were there. The other spots are gravel but everything appears to be level. The kids loved riding their books around the paved road over and over again while we washed the RV and took care of some needed repairs.

Close to town, restaurants, a Home Depot and grocery stores. A couple days we were there we heard some horse contests at the fairgrounds next door but it wasn't very loud and the kids loved watching all the horses.

If for some reason you need to access a dump station, there's a very nice dump station right next door to...