Kings Court RV Park

King's Court RV Park in Grand Coulee, Washington, is a 24-site full-hookup campground in the heart of eastern Washington's Grand Coulee country — minutes from the Grand Coulee Dam, Banks Lake, and Lake Roosevelt, the Columbia River reservoir that extends 150 miles behind the dam through the Columbia Highlands and the Colville Indian Reservation in one of the most geologically dramatic landscapes in the Pacific Northwest. Grand Coulee's position in Grant County's channeled scablands gives the campground its identity as the gateway to the largest hydroelectric facility in the United States by generating capacity, a dam so massive that its construction in the 1930s and 1940s transformed the Columbia Plateau's agricultural economy and the Pacific Northwest's electrical grid simultaneously. Twenty-four full-hookup RV sites with the convenient location near Grand Coulee Dam, Banks Lake, and Lake Roosevelt give guests the complete practical base for the eastern Washington reservoir and coulée country that this specific section of the Columbia Plateau delivers in its most concentrated form. The campground's Grand Coulee position gives guests the walking-distance or short-drive access to the dam's visitor center and laser light show that the summer evening Laser Light Show program — projected on the dam face and representing the largest laser light show in the United States — makes a signature experience for dam country visitors. Pets are welcome. Grand Coulee Dam, the largest concrete structure in the United States when it was completed in 1942, generates 6,809 megawatts at maximum capacity from its powerhouses on the Columbia River in a structure 550 feet tall and 5,223 feet wide — a scale that the dam's visitor center and the overlook viewpoints only partially convey, since the dam's full height and the volume of Columbia River water it impounds in Lake Roosevelt require the aerial perspective of a flight or a viewpoint well removed from the dam face itself to register in full. The Bureau of Reclamation's guided tours into the powerhouse interior give guests the specific scale of the individual generators whose capacity surpasses that of most state electrical grids individually. Banks Lake, immediately south of the dam on the Grand Coulee's floor, is the reservoir that delivers Columbia River irrigation water to the Columbia Basin Project's million-acre agricultural district — a reservoir whose 27-mile length and the basalt coulée walls above it create a water recreation environment of striking visual character. Walleye and bass fishing in Banks Lake sustains a tournament fishing economy, and the Steamboat Rock State Park at the lake's north end provides the dramatic basalt fortress formation hiking and swimming beach access that give Banks Lake's public land recreation its most concentrated quality. King's Court RV Park serves guests through the eastern Washington touring season with the summer months from May through September providing the most reliably warm weather for reservoir recreation and the Grand Coulee Laser Light Show's full summer programming. The Columbia Plateau's July and August temperatures can be hot by western Washington standards but the low humidity and the reservoir water recreation make the high-desert summer manageable for guests acclimated to eastern states' summer heat. Reserve sites ahead for the summer laser show season and July 4th weekend, when the Grand Coulee Dam area fills with visitors from the Puget Sound metro who make the eastern Washington summer trip specifically for the dam's combination of engineering marvel and outdoor recreation.