Playground
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Keep the little ones happy at campgrounds and RV parks with playgrounds. Featuring swings, slides, and climbing structures, these play areas provide safe and enjoyable spaces for children to burn off energy and make new friends.
RV parks and campgrounds with Playground near Malad City, Idaho.
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Phillips RV Park
42 RV Sites, 3 Tent Sites
Phillips RV Park in Evanston, Wyoming, has operated under family ownership since 1936, bringing nearly nine decades of accumulated hospitality experience to a campground that has served travelers on the US-189/US-30 corridor in Uinta County since the era when the Lincoln Highway carried the first transcontinental automobile tourists through the high-desert sagebrush country of southwestern Wyoming. The park's longevity reflects the consistent quality and personal attention that multi-generational family operation typically produces, and its position in Evanston—Wyoming's gateway city from Utah on I-80—makes it a natural stopping point for travelers moving between the Wasatch Front and the Wyoming high country. The park provides full hookup sites with water, electric, and sewer connections on big-rig-friendly pads, with clean restrooms, showers, laundry, a playground, and Wi-Fi rounding out the amenity set that extended-stay and transit guests alike require. The Bear River's proximity, noted in the park's listing of nearby features, adds a natural waterway element to the setting—a creek-side character that the high desert communities of southwestern Wyoming provide rarely, given the predominantly arid and treeless landscape that defines the region between the Wasatch and the Medicine Bow ranges. Pet-friendly policies welcome the dogs that many western travelers bring on road trips through Wyoming's wide-open spaces. Evanston's position in the Bridger Valley at 6,748 feet elevation in the Bear River drainage puts guests in a landscape defined by the high sagebrush steppe characteristic of the Great Basin's eastern margins—vast, windswept, and dramatically open in a way that the tree-covered mountain ranges of the surrounding Uinta and Bear River ranges make more visually complex than the simple flat-desert stereotype. The Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Bear River Valley to the southwest near Brigham City, Utah, is one of the premier wetland bird sanctuaries in the Interior West, with shorebird and waterfowl diversity during migration season that attracts serious birders annually. The Uinta Mountains rise dramatically to the south of Evanston along the Utah border—the only major mountain range in the contiguous United States with an east-west orientation rather than north-south—and the Ashley National Forest's Wyoming portion provides hiking and fishing access in the Uinta's northern drainages. Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, approximately 60 miles south in Utah, protects the Red Canyon and Green River reservoir system with boating, fishing, and geological touring that showcases the spectacular canyon geology of the Colorado Plateau's northernmost extent. Salt Lake City lies approximately 90 miles southwest via I-80 for guests who want access to Utah's urban amenity set. Phillips RV Park operates year-round in Evanston's high-altitude Wyoming climate, where summers are pleasantly cool compared to lower-elevation camping alternatives and winter brings the cold and occasional snow that characterize every Wyoming mountain community. The park's 1936 founding gives it a historical depth unusual among operating campgrounds, and the family's decades of experience managing a gateway-community campground has produced the kind of operational reliability and local knowledge that independent travelers on long western road trips particularly value. The park's combination of solid infrastructure, family ownership character, and strategic I-80 gateway positioning makes it a consistent and trustworthy choice for Evanston overnight stays.
from $26/night
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The Longhorn Ranch Lodge & RV Resort
46 RV Sites, 7 Tent Sites, 5 Lodges
In Dubois, Wyoming—at the eastern gateway of the Wind River Canyon where US Highway 26/287 threads through the Absaroka Range and the painted badlands of the Dubois basin before climbing to Togwotee Pass and the descent toward Grand Teton National Park—Longhorn Ranch Lodge & RV Resort sits with the Painted Hills' vermillion and ochre badlands to the north and Whiskey Mountain in the Wind River Range rising to the south, offering full hookup RV sites, lodge accommodations, a hot tub and sauna, horse pens for equestrian travelers, bike rentals, and a setting of raw Wyoming landscape beauty that makes Dubois itself a destination rather than simply a waypoint on the Yellowstone circuit. For travelers who want the Wind River country's extraordinary geology, wildlife, and mountain environment without the crowds of the national parks, Longhorn Ranch delivers. Full hookup RV sites with big-rig accommodations sit alongside the lodge's guest rooms in a property with a creek or stream on the grounds that creates the natural soundscape of the high Wyoming valley. Horse pens serve the equestrian community that uses the Dubois area as a base for backcountry trail riding in the Shoshone National Forest and the Fitzpatrick Wilderness, and the bike rentals support the cycling guests who want to explore the Wind River Canyon's dramatic highway corridor on two wheels. A laundry, clean bathrooms and showers, a playground, dog park, and general store provide the practical amenity infrastructure, and the hot tub and sauna offer the restorative option that the Wyoming mountain climate makes particularly welcome. Dubois sits at 6,917 feet in Fremont County at the confluence of the Wind River and Horse Creek, in the high desert basin where the geology tells one of Wyoming's most visible stories—the badlands north of town expose the same volcanic and sedimentary strata that color the landscape at Bryce Canyon and the Painted Desert, creating the pink, red, white, and yellow banding in the cliffs that gives the Painted Hills their name. The town's character as a working Western ranching and outfitting community, combined with its position on the Yellowstone-Teton circuit, creates the authentic Wyoming atmosphere that distinguishes Dubois from the resort-town alternatives in the region. Yellowstone National Park's east entrance at Sylvan Pass is approximately 65 miles west via Togwotee Pass, a mountain route that crosses the Continental Divide at 9,658 feet through spectacular alpine scenery and is consistently ranked among Wyoming's most beautiful highways. Grand Teton National Park and Jackson Hole lie approximately 85 miles southwest, with the Tetons visible from Togwotee Pass on clear days in the dramatic silhouette that makes the approach from the east one of the finest introductions to a mountain landscape in the American West. The National Bighorn Sheep Center in Dubois—the interpretive museum dedicated to the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep that winter on Whiskey Mountain in the largest concentration of bighorns in the lower 48 states—provides the wildlife education that contextualizes the sheep viewing opportunities immediately adjacent to town. Longhorn Ranch operates seasonally in Dubois's high-altitude Wyoming climate, with the summer and early fall season from June through October the primary operating window when the mountain passes are open and the national park circuit is accessible. The Whiskey Mountain bighorn sheep viewing in late fall and winter is exceptional and occasionally extends the Dubois season for wildlife-focused visitors willing to navigate the mountain roads. Reserve your site or lodge room at Longhorn Ranch and let Dubois's painted badlands, the Wind River Range, and the Wyoming landscape between Yellowstone and the Tetons show you what most travelers miss by driving through without stopping.
from $30/night