Roanoke Texas
After our trip down to see Mom in Bryan, we needed a place in the Dallas area to stop before the place at Sandy Lake could accommodate us. We got out our trusted Good Sam "bible" and looked at the Dallas parks. Not really very many for a metroplex this size. The Good Sam rating of a maximum 10/10/10 for the Northlake Village place in Roanoke to the northwest of town looked like it fit the bill. We had just been to the Palm Creek place in Arizona with the same rating (look back a couple of posts) so we thought it would be really, really nice ... ooops.
We have stayed in over 250 parks and the Good Sam folks really need to rethink their rating system as today it is meaningless for the RV community. If Palm Creek in Arizona is the top 10 park then this older mobile home park is an 8 at the very most. What they have done is take the old mobile home sites and put two RV spots in the original space ... double the occupancy with no, absolutely no, further improvement to the place!
To get to the place you wind behind some light industrial buildings that you see in the above pic and are stuffed into a very tight unleveled gravel spot. The concrete patio they boast about is really the remnant of whatever the mobile home owner put in twenty years ago and every site is different. There's about 10 sites for transients and the rest are permanent RVs that just doubled up after the larger mobile homes were evicted ... pretty sad ... but I guess fills their bottom line.
Even though you were on top of your neighbor it was a fairly quiet place even though there wasn't a level spot in the park. These pictures really make it look good but are very deceiving. I guess the Texas racetrack is nearby and it is on I-35W so for the tailgate party it might be OK for a couple of days ... but for normal big rig folks looking for a decent park with all the amenities that the super rating would suggest ... don't even slow down.
Yeah I know, he just keeps following us around ... my fashion and RV park statement for the day ...
