Southern Utah RV Resort — Local services in Washington

SURV is conveniently located with access to the amenities of St. George, Zion NP, and many retail and outdoor area activities, and our rate was $675 +$20 (dog fee) for 30 days in the first back-in row of this brand new park. They offer easy online booking and the owners/staff are incredibly nice and helpful, including quick email responses and allowing guests to receive packages. While this is very much a commercial park (lots of gravel, concrete, and little privacy), this is one of the more spacious and well designed private parks we’ve stayed in. Sites are all wide and long, and we could have parked in any with room for our truck and access to our garage. The sites are all crushed rock, relatively level, and the utilities worked perfectly. Their WiFi quality varied, but Verizon worked well without a booster. There are 2 small, but green, fenced dog areas, and while there isn’t much for dogs to walk-on in the park, the surrounding sidewalks and low traffic roads worked well. As other reviews have noted, there are both indoor (laundry, etc) and outdoor (sports courts, fire pit, etc) common areas, and despite being often full and host to more kids than any park we’ve stayed in, the CG is quiet in terms of neighbor noise. Overall, it feels like a lot of thought and work went into designing this park, and they continue to take great care in how it’s run. SURV has one notable negative, road noise from I15. While the roads surrounding SURV are low on traffic and quiet, the sound of I15 is about what you would expect and constant. Our site backed up to the highway, so while I’d assume that the inner sites enjoy more peace and quiet, we were grateful for our sound machine. A couple of other notes that may only be relevant due to current events and/or only to some travelers. For the first few weeks of our stay, office staff/owners did not wear masks, but they are as of November 2020. Additionally, during a particularly contentious election season, some guests and staff/owners are displaying political...

From a pure layout and site-spacing perspective, it’s fairly typical for a private campground that doesn’t have a lot of space to work with. The gravel sites are narrow but not uncomfortably so, and they are decently long and level. They have three small dog areas (two fenced in, one not), but half the time we walked the dogs along the roadsides just outside the campground (where there were plenty of bushes to make our male dog happy).

But while the sites are ordinary, the amenities are nice. The office has a small souvenir shop, and there’s an indoor gathering area in the same building (there were no events hosted there at the time probably due to COVID-19). There are a number of small recreational areas around the office: two small multi-hole putting greens, a fenced-in area that doubles as both a single hoop basketball court and a pickleball court, a playground set, a cornhole set, and a few small communal fire pits (note that there are no fire pits at the sites). The recreational areas and the bicycle-friendly paved streets make this a kid-friendly campground. There is also a separate building with the bathrooms (which are nice) and the laundry room (which we didn’t use).

In terms of cell service, The best speeds I got on my Verizon Jetpack with MIMO antenna during our stay was around 20Mbps down and 20Mbps up, which was enough to stream TV but during the second half of our stay the bandwidth was unreliable during the evenings. The campground WiFi was decent the few times we used it (note: we didn’t use it for streaming).

I want to conclude, though, with a story illustrating their customer service. The day before we left, we were out driving on dirt roads and made a wrong turn, and ended up getting our truck (our tow vehicle) stuck in deep sand. We called the campground to ask if they knew anyone local who could help, and they sent out two staff members with their trucks to pull us out. So this campground looks out for...

Wonderful resort! We stayed unexpectedly for 3 nights as we were passing through the area when we had an issue with our RV. I was calling all of the RV parks in the area in hopes someone would have availability but it was around 7pm so most of the offices were closed. When I called SURV, it went to voicemail and I decided not to leave a message because I figured no one would get my message until the following day and we really needed to find a place that night.

(No overnight parking is allowed at the Walmart in this area)

Jason sent me a text asking if I was looking for a place to stay for the night. When I told him yes, he immediately called me and explained that he screens the calls after hours as many people call after they close trying to make reservations month in advance. He said he has no problems with taking calls after hours when it's a time sensitive matter so if you are ever in a bind and are looking for a place to stay but the offices are closed, try calling anyway. You never know when someone will reach out to you if they know you are in need of immediate help.

Jason was extremely kind and helpful. He made the whole process so easy and his kindness actually helped put me in a better mood since we were stressing out at the time.

The RV resort is beautiful. They have large spaces with lot of amenities. The public bathrooms are kept in great condition and it looks like they clean them every day. The office staff was very friendly.

The location of the resort is great, too. We weren't there long enough to explore much, but we decided to take 1 day to drive to Zion . It was about a 45 minute drive the the national park. Very easy to navigate our way there.

Overall, we really enjoyed our stay and are so thankful to Jason for his help and generosity. Would definitely recommend...