Gina P.
Yelp
Going to the Shoshone RV Park has always been a wonderful experience for my husband and I and we do plan on returning. Unfortunately, this last visit left me disheartened and, quite frankly, more than a little upset.
We arrived on Saturday afternoon hot, tired, and anxious to get in the pool that is on the premises for the RV Park and Motel guests to use. It is my understanding that they do not allow anyone to use the pool without paying for a room or a camping spot. As we were setting up camp we heard a lot of whooping and hollering coming from the pool area. Some of the phrases I overheard were pretty rude and I will not repeat them here. Eventually, we realized the pool was full of at least 20+ men that the female RV park manager let in for a swim and more were arriving by the minute. She must have been charging them to get into the pool because I saw a lot of cash changing hands. She said they were special guests from the historical society and that she made a reception, I'm pretty sure she meant exception, for them to be allowed to swim and drink in the pool area. Unfortunately, they proceeded to drink, and drink, and drink some more. They actually had ice chests floating in the pool and were throwing cans of beer across the pool area to one another. As one very drunk man put it, as he was trying to pick up on my girlfriends and I, "We're either from the historical drinking society or the drinking historical society. We haven't been able to decide which one." And we were not about to go swimming under those conditions. I think the RV Park manager showed a blatant disregard for any ones safety including mine, by allowing drinking to go on in the pool area. There are serious liability issues involved and it is clearly signposted as being "not allowed" for good reason. Now, I don't have a problem with the men being allowed to swim. After all, it was a hot day and they did put up a sign for the town of Shoshone. But the drunk and disorderly manners of the men was just too much. When the men finally left, we had to pick up at least a dozen beer cans form the pool area before we could enjoy the pool ourselves. And, if that wasn't bad enough, about 3am, a bunch of town teenagers woke us up after they climbed the pool fence and were parading across the roof of the pool, naked, whooping and hollering in the water. Where were the RV Park managers? They've obviously had this problem in the past because the fence had been repaired in a few places.
Continuing with the story, on Sunday, a fire broke out behind the downtown buildings in Shoshone. As the fire trucks ran out of water, they decided to fill them up with the pool water. Before I continue with my rant, I feel I should explain how the pool water is obtained. There is a fresh water spring that comes out of the mountain and is directed into a pipe that fills the pool and the pool then overflows and continues down a little stream off into the desert. I was told that the water flow is so great that the entire volume of the pool is exchanged in just 4 hours. There is a lever on the pipe that will either make the water flow directly into the pool or it will flow thru a pipe filled with holes and shower into the pool. As we were swimming, one fire truck parked outside the pool and filled up with water. The firefighters joked with us about the water level dropping but we didn't notice any water drop whatsoever. Then, a few minutes later, the male RV park manager came into the pool area and turned off the shower pipe without saying a word to us and then walked out. Mind you, the full fire truck was parked outside the gate and didn't move for several hours. We continued to swim and turned the shower back on to enjoy the massage it gave as it fell on our backs. Again, the male RV Park manager came in and turned off the shower without any explanation and left again. The third time he came in, he said as long as the fire trucks are filling up that we couldn't use the shower. Wait a minute, the fire truck was already full and had been sitting there for several hours. Furthermore, no fire trucks came to fill up again until at least two hours after we left the pool for the night. I felt he was just pushing around his authority and we were somehow in his way of looking good for the firefighters. Whether the water flowed directly into the pool or it went thru the pipe with holes made no difference on the rate the volume of the pool was replenished.
Now, it's Monday. As we are packing up to leave, my husband disconnected the RV septic and I had to use the bathrooms for the first time since arriving. What an experience. It smelled like those open pit toilets you have to use at the state parks. Never, in the past, have the toilets smelled like that. Then my husband went into the men's toilet and one was overflowed with toilet paper. As we were leaving a lady at the office said they knew about it and that someone used too much toilet paper. But, they left it like that? Why?