Elkhart Campground

Spent two nights here on our return trip from Alaska. As most people know the Elkhart / Goshen area is the mecca for RV manufacturing, especially RV trailers. Elkhart Campground is very conveniently located about 2-3 minutes from the main Elkhart exit. It's just north of the freeway / Indiana toll road in a country setting. It butts up near the freeway, but is far enough away as to filter out 90% of the traffic noise. At one time it looks like it was a KOA. The whole campground is flat, so all sites will be level. All campground roads are firm gravel. I would say its a 50 / 50 mix of shady sites and open sunny spots, leaning towards more of the full service sites being sunny. If I remember right all sites are grass pads. They seemed fairly firm, but I did see a one or two large rigs get a little muddy leaving their site. About 75% of the sites are pull-thru's. And about 70% are full service sites. On average the sites fairly large. The pull-thru's are long enough that if you wanted to keep your toad attached, it would still fit in your site without disconnecting. Full service sites ran $39-43 a night which is about average for the Midwest. They do honor Good Sam 10% discount. The facilities are a little on the older side, but well kept. The electric / water connections looked older, but even with a fairly full campground never had power issues, but this was in mid Sept without the AC running. There are a lot of "rallies" that are scheduled here as it's a good location so close to the following: Downtown Elkhart, RV factory tours, RV Hall of Fame, RV salvage stores and your general Amish gift shops and restaurants. They had a large meeting hall which our group (IRV2.com) used for our rally of about 90 rigs. The shower building was like I said "older" but very clean and spacious. The mini golf was older looking but had new carpets. The pool was closed but look very inviting. Overall I have been to some older once branded KOA campgrounds that were well past there prime, where as Elkhart Campground you can see they made a good effort to keep the standards up with what they have. For that I will give them a 4 star.