Elk City / Clinton KOA Journey 21167 Route 66 North, Foss, OK 73647

"Front desk lady was less than helpful, asked to move closer to the dog park (there were only 4 other people in the park total) and said there was someone booked for that spot, didn't try to move us closer we were actually furthest from the k9 park. Just not as accommodating as most of the KOAs we stay in esp when there's no one else there. Highway noise was moderate but typical"

"I’ve stayed at KOA cabins since I was a child and I am now 45. In all those hundreds of visits all across the country over a 40 year span this was honestly the one and only KOA cabin that did not meet KOA’s usual standards of excellence. I’ve always known KOA cabins to be spotlessly clean and tidy (which is why I love them) but this cabin at this particular location was not clean. It smelled very strongly of urine and the mattress on the bed was so dingy dirty that we felt the need to check it thoroughly for bedbugs (fortunately we didn’t find any but the fact that we had to check it tells you something about how dirty the cabin felt). If we had not been so exhausted from our trip, we would have left and found other lodging but it was late so we felt forced to stick it out. This is the one and only KOA I am unable to recommend. We still love KOA campgrounds but not this one."

"We stayed here one night while traveling between Kansas and Texas. Coming from the east, our GPS wanted us to get off of I-40 at exit 53, which would have had us traveling down a narrow stretch of old Route 66 for 3 miles to reach the campground. We opted to take exit 50 instead as instructed in our reservation email, which allowed us to pull into the check-in lanes in front of the office while pointed towards the campground entrance. The campground has a mix of pull-through and back-in sites. All of the sites in the front half of the campground has asphalt pads, grass lawns, and picnic tables.The short back-in sites on the east side, just beyond the campground entrance, have one or two shade trees, while the pull-through row in the middle of the campground has plenty of them. Our site (site 56) had tall trees on all four corners of the site, and all of them were trimmed high enough that we had no problem getting in and out of the site, and it was level side-to-side. The hookups were reasonably placed, but the sewer opening was not threaded. The office doesn't have much of a store when compared to other KOAs, but it is attached to an on-site restaurant that serves a variety of simple dishes (such as pizza, burgers, pulled pork sandwiches, and wings). They have 20lbs propane tanks for exchange as well as a propane refill station. There are tables and chairs on the elevated back porch for enjoying your food when the weather is nice that also overlooks the swimming pool area. There is a small simple, playground area on the west end of the campground with a swing set, a merry-go-round, a basketball hood, and a horseshoe pit. There are bathrooms attached to the office building that are secured by an 8-digit code (the longest bathroom code I've ever seen) and there is a separate building in the middle of the campground with a small laundry room. There are two dog parks. There's a small run next to the playground, and a much larger park on the north end of the campground at the end of a large grassy area. The larger park has some solar-powered lights attached to the fence: they were barely lit during our stay, possibly because it had rained all day. The Verizon signal pulled in by my Jetpack hotspot with MIMO antenna showed 4 bars, but the download bandwidth was terrible during the day and throughout the early evening, likely because local smartphone traffic was prioritized over mine. Before 7am on the day we left, when I guess no one else was using the network, I got 18 Mbps down and 25 up. In contrast, the speed test I ran on my 5G AT&T smartphone showed 84 Mbps down and 8 up and was consistent throughout our stay.  I tried the campground WiFi and got 3 Mbps down and 1 up. We would stay here again if we were passing through."

"This was a nice overnight stop. Highway noise is moderate. Hot water wasn't working in the bathrooms while we were visiting. Sites were nice, well maintained, and well arranged. Staff were helpful and pleasant. It was a little hard to see at night on the roads leading from I-40 to the campground, but arriving before dark would solve that."

"Convenient location. The nicest and friendliest staff you’d ever want to meet. Chatted with them all during dinner in the restaurant getting some local insight into the area. The one big pitfall here was the horrible washer and dryers in the laundry. Had to run a load several times to actually get the clothes to wash and spin. The staff apologized and gave us some $ to cover the added cost of multiple runs. You’d think for as nice as this park is that the owners would spend a little money and get some working washers and dryers."