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Mountain Valley RV Resort, Heber City, UT

15 06 2023

Welcome to Heber City, UT.

We last drove through Heber City back in 2016 while traveling between Jordanelle State Park and Vernal, UT. We’re currently parked in site #S9 at the Mountain Valley RV Resort. We’re here for the next 7 nights along with about 70 other Montana RV Owners for our annual Western Regional gathering. This is a beautiful park of about 100 sites separated into two “phases”, with families in Phase 1 and adults only in Phase 2. Peak rates (April-November) run from about $65 to $90 per night. Tack on sales tax and Utah transient room tax and you’re around $600 for our 7 night stay. But, the facilities here are some of the best we’ve seen. Two clubhouses with kitchen areas, beautiful fireplaces and pool tables. 3 outdoor pools & hot tubs. Pickleball courts, a kids playground and dog run areas. The sites are all concrete, internal roadways are blacktop and there are trees, bushes and flowers everywhere you look. With nearly daily rain showers while we’re here, everything is green, lush and in full bloom – gorgeous!

Mountain Valley RV Resort, Heber City, UT

Our Montana clan has plenty of plans for our 7 nights here, from almost daily Happy Hour/ Hors D’oeuvres gatherings, an afternoon onboard the Heber Valley Railroad, daily Poker Walks, craft projects, a “Baggie Breakfast” and a Bingo/Cookie Munch party. The RV resort is providing a Movie Night for us to enjoy, Keystone RV is bringing in dinner one night and we’ll conclude the week with a Pot Luck Dinner and White Elephant exchange. But, these gatherings are more than just the fun – we also exchange tons of information about our travels, our rigs, and of course the coolest new floorplans and features released by the RV industry.

Heber Valley Railroad

From Heber City we’re headed to Bayfield, CO to meet up with friends for a few nights and then home. Our first night out will be Sun Outdoors Canyonland Gateway RV park just north of Moab. More from there…

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Categories : Summer Camping 2023

Off to Heber City, UT

11 06 2023

After a “close call” for Jury Duty, I’ve been released on Friday and we’re going to head out tomorrow. The annual Western Regional Montana Owners Club rally starts next Wednesday in Heber City. This is the same rally that we attended for the first time last June in Dolores, CO. We’ve also met a smaller group of Montana Owners in Quartzite in January.

Gunnison KOA Journey

We’re going to visit friends in Montrose, but decide that nearly 5 hours is just a bit too far, so our first night is at the KOA Journey in Gunnison. This campground is more like a city park, lush green lawns, big trees and even a small fishing lake. We’re parked in site #48 which provides a very long back-in site with full hookups right behind the office. This site isn’t bad, but if the “Kottage” is occupied, you’ll share your patio area for their parking. We’d prefer to be further around the circle, site # 26, 28 or 16, 18.

Moochdocking in Montrose

From Gunnison it’s a relatively easy trip over to Montrose, including passing through the US 50 Little Blue Creek Canyon Improvement Project. In Montrose we enjoyed Colorado Boy Pizza and Beers on Sunday evening. On Monday evening we joined additional friends for an informal dinner of wonderful salads, beans and hot-dogs! Thanks M&D for letting us “camp” in your front yard.!

Green River State Park, Green River, Utah

From Montrose we’re headed to Green River State Park. We’ve stayed at Green River before, and have always noted their mosquito problem apparently due to overwatering of the lush grass. It’s not as bad in previous years, but the little nuisances are still obnoxious when walking through the grass or just after sunset. We’re parked in site #26, basically just a wide spot in the main road with hookups on the wrong side. Not optimal, but it’ll work for a quick overnight. We’d also note that it appears that the park is adding 10-20 new tent sites and at least 1 new shower house.

After Green River, we’ll be in Mountain Valley RV Resort in Heber City for 7 nights. More from Heber City…

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Categories : Summer Camping 2023

Jordanelle State Park, Utah

5 09 2016

Jordanelle State Park, site #90

We’re parked at site #90 at Jordanelle State Park on the Jordanelle Reservoir about halfway between Park City and Hebor City, UT. Arriving without a reservation, the front gate assigned us to site 90, a somewhat short back-in site on the Wasatch Loop, closest to the lake. RV parking is available in about 100 sites at the Hailstone Campground, organized around 4 loops and one long row of pull-through sites. A mix of back-in and pull-throughs with 86 sites of partial hookups (electric/water) and 14 sites with full hookups (electric/water/sewer). There are also 40 small RV or tent dry sites at the McHenry Loop and 28 walk-in tent sites at Keetley Point. Nearly all of these sites are reservable online. At the Hailstone RV section, there are 3 toilet/shower buildings and one central camper services building that provides toilet, shower and laundry facilities. There is also a dump station available.

In addition to water and electric, sites provide a picnic table, fire ring and BBQ pit on a large cement pad. The loops are organized across a hillside, so nearly all sites have some type of views across the water. Some favorites include #90, our site, which provides good lake views as well as good privacy from other nearby sites. It has a good shade and a fairly flat tent pad. Site #76 is a long lakeside pull-through site with some shade. Site #53 – 44 are perched on the edge of the Lower Fisher loop providing great views, but not a lot of shade. #34 is a very private back-in along the same loop, but without much of a view. Over the air TV was nearly non-existent here, but with blazingly fast T-Mobile service, we could stream nearly anything we wanted to watch. This is a great Utah State Park and one we’d return to.

We’ll continue east along highway 40 tomorrow, with a planned stop somewhere around Vernal, UT. More from there…