Pony Express RV Park — Local services in West Yellowstone

Advantages: ||||Location--This park is exactly on the boundary of Yellowstone NP and within minutes of the west entrance station. It is located very well within the town of West Yellowstone, a town overrun with typical tourist traps: t-shirt shops, souvenir shops, more t-shirt shops, gifts shops, and so on. You are however near gas and groceries, too. Most importantly, this park is very well situated to the most popular sites in Yellowstone NP; better in fact than some campgrounds with the NP. ||||Price--This was less than half the price of some other parks. Prices in this town are going up dramatically, including RV parks, as foreign investors by up property. ||||Facilities--The laundry and bathrooms are clean and adequate--nothing special about them though.||||Disadvantages:||||Facilites--The sites are close, mostly unshaded, and tight. You are in a gravel/dirt area of a motel, in other words, a parking lot. Most sites have a table as did ours. We moved it behind our trailer to avoid being next to our neighbor's dump station. The lost needs another layer of gravel added to the surface. Rain makes for some inconvenient puddles.||||WiFi--When other campers go to NetFlix due to the poor cable selection, WiFi is stone age slow. In the middle of the day, it was just fine.||||Bottom Line:||||I would absolutely stay here again under the same conditions--primarily price and location. The staff was very courteous and professional. Do not come here if you expect to spend much time outdoors at the park. I doubt...

3 starts but I'm probably being generous. We arrived and we couldn't believe what we had booked ourselves into. We had 2 rigs: 34' Class A and 31' 5th Wheel. The sites were tiny, dirty, dusty and so close together your sewer connection could be under the stairs of your neighbors. This is nothing more than a parking lot next to a hotel with RV hookups. Lets start with the positive points. The park is in an excellent location. It is walking distance to the park entrance and all of downtown West Yellowstone. We walked downtown almost everynight to see a play, get a bite to eat, enjoy a nightcap, go to the Grizzly Park, etc. Truly a great location. Clean bathrooms and laundry facility. Finally, it does have full hook-ups. Negative...just about everything else. If there are cars parked along the street curb, forget about getting your larger rig in a site. The sites are extremely tight and the roads narrow. Its really frustrating getting into your site. We didn't hook our sewer up because it was literally within a few feet of their front door and we didn't want them to have to step over the hose or smell our waste. Looking for an inexpensive RV site within walking distance of downtown...this is your place. Looking for a great RV site experience, pony up the extra $'s and stay in a...

The only reason I'm giving this RV Park a "2" is because they did have clean, well-kept bathrooms. However, that is the ONLY perk.||First of all, we couldn't even FIND the place. There are two motels side by side in W. Yellowstone. One is called Pony Express. The other is called Brandin' Iron Motel. There is a sign for Pony Express RV Park, but no arrow or sign guiding a camper to the correct office. After walking the premises for ten minutes, a bar waitress at the next door saloon was nice enough to explain that the office for Pony Express is inside the Brandin' Iron Motel office. No sign, nothing.||We were assigned Site #10. They had had a huge rainstorm the night before, and when I approached the site, it was comprised of two lakes, with a very small dry island in the middle. I had to seriously ARGUE to get a dry site, as they were saving their last dry spot for someone else who hadn't even shown up yet! Finally we got the drier site, but the whole campground is a sorry excuse for a camping experience. It's basically just a parking lot between two very old, run-down motels. ||Fortunately, we were there for the wildlife inside Yellowstone and hardly spent any time at the campground--a concrete jungle of a place with hardly ANY grass at all. Needless to say, we...