Expo Center RV Park — Local services in Redmond

The Expo Center offers a very practical camping experience- various sizes of pull-through and back-in sites, all relatively level, paved, and FHU in a parking lot type setting. This isn’t what most people look forward to when they think of camping, with nearly no privacy or greenery, but it’s a good location for getting around to see the surrounding area. There is a nearby train, Redmond airport up the road, and they were doing construction and road work next door during our stay, nothing terrible but expect some noise consistently. We tried to sleep with the windows open once, and it was intolerable and instead used our sound machine every night. Generally the park often felt very busy with RVs and vehicles always coming or going, and the Expo Center events did create more of that (the dog show was probably the most chaotic week during our stay). Our utilities worked fine, and I appreciated that there was plenty of space to walk our dog. Bathroom and laundry are available, but we didn’t use either. There is no WiFi or cable, but our Verizon service worked well without the booster. This was one of the few times in our 3+ years of travel that we needed early check-in, and they weren’t terribly accommodating. We stayed here because it’s the crazy-busy tourist season for Bend (which is 20-30 minutes away depending where you are headed), and for this trip the location was more important than the CG scenery/feel. Bottom line: this CG is pricey at $38 (30 amp)/ $42 (50 amp) plus a 10.5% tax for what it is, but we would...

Expo RV park Redmond OR This RV park is next to an events grounds. It was built in the year of 2000, according to the staff, and is both well-maintained with extremely level pads and provides a good amount of space between rigs. It appears that even the larger rigs have enough pull through sites to make parking easy. It has all the required amenities of electric, water and sewer per site. It also has tent camping available.

Reservations should be made online prior to visiting. The office closes fairly early and may necessitate you calling ahead particularly if you need to obtain the code to use the restroom facilities. The restrooms and showers appear clean and plentiful. While we were there I only saw two other people utilizing these facilities and so there always seems to be availability, including handicapped accessible toilet and shower combination.

We came during the Fourth of July and saw fireworks from the grounds. Of note, the fireworks can be seen the best from the east side of the park facing the large open field. I would recommend setting up your chairs there if seeing fireworks is important to you. I did not investigate the Wi-Fi strength but cell phone service from Verizon...

Stayed there 5 days and it was okay. Very, very tight between trailers. No way could we use our side awning. We were in D11 and thankfully had grass behind us and no one on one side. Some spots have only gravel or pavement. We didn't appreciate the 6 am garbage trucks or folks letting their big dogs run free. It's a good spot if you only plan on spending the evening and sleeping there. Planes weren't as loud as they could have been but beware of the 11:30 pm train plus whistle.

We had a broken top on the sewer top when we arrived. I called the office and left 2 messages asking for a return phone call. Nothing. I finally walked over to the office about 1 1/2 hrs later to make sure they knew we hadn't damaged it and the office person was sitting at her desk right where I had seen her 2 hours before. Not so great at returning phone calls 🙄

Note that there are only 3 washers and 3 dryers in the laundry room so plan accordingly.

We left 2 days early since we finished our sight seeing and didn't want to just hang out in a hot unshaded parking lot. There is a big sign in the office that says "No Refunds" so don't bother...