DOUBLE FEATURE: A Ride Along plus A Park Review - Salt Lake City to Double Dice RV Park in Elko, NV

MAY 2013

Double your pleasure, double your fun ...

now I have the double mint chewing gum song in my head!  

McTraveler is leaving Salt Lake City, UT and making our way to Elko, NV for the night. The drive along I-80 goes through a lot of scenic landscape changes.  You'll see the green mountains with snow caps as you leave SLC, then by the expansive Great Salt Lake and on toward the flat desert floor vistas of the Great Basin where we found the Bonneville Speedway with salt flats that are blinding white; immediately as you cross the Nevada line you'll find mountains again and finally flatting out some as you enter into the hot, dry desert area of Elko, NV.

This leg of our 2013 Spring RV Trip also included a first ... a cattle drive outside of SLC where the cowboys were herdin' 'em doggies underneath I-80 ... what a fun sight to behold!  That was never expected ... did a double take then snapped a photo.

                                                  Now I have the Raw Hide song going through my head!

Because of the weather, we chose not to boon dock overnight ... just didn't want to have to run the generator all night for A/C.  So we found the Double Dice RV Park in Woodall's Directory and they did give us the Good Sam discount.  Like the name says, we're in Nevada, so everyone has some sort of gaming on property, even the RV park has a casino.  We didn't gamble, but later on we felt we had lost enough money just by staying here.

Campground Views

The park is a glorified gravel parking lot, but we were grateful to find anything with hook-ups on this long lonely stretch of road.  The staff was nice and said to go pick and site and let them know one we settled into.  The vast majority of the 100 park sites were allotted to permanent residences so there were little to chose from.  I peeked into the laundry and showers ... both areas are dirty coin operated messes.  

We did go to the on-site bar restaurant and had  a just okay meal ... but it was nice not to cook after driving all day.

Suffice it to say, we enjoyed the beautiful drive and endured the overnight campground.  Overall rating of this fine establishment get a big fat D.  I was surprised when I just looked at Trip Advisor and they had one excellent, six very good, and four terrible.  We felt the park rated in the terrible range.

We're sorry you had to visit our virtual campground but hope you'll only stay at this campground as a last resort.  But we do hope you enjoyed the ride along to our misadventure.  We promise better adventures at our next stop in Reno, NV ... see you there.

Until then, wishing you safe travels,
Pam, Jim, Maxx and Mollie