First to Review
Clean, Friendly, Well Maintained RV Campground on the CDA River

Albert's Landing is a clean, well managed RV campground on the shores of the North Fork of the CDA River near Cataldo, Idaho. 

The campground offers 60+ sites with water & 30\50 amp service, level gravel pads, picnic tables, and fire rings. There is nearly 1000' of river frontage, a camp store, and a river float shuttle. However, the campground does not currently have a septic dump, trash facilities, or showers, Those services will be available soon though.

The North Fork of the CDA River is a popular destination for river floating, fishing, and off road recreational activities. 

Down the road from the campground is the historic Snake Pit restaurant. Highly recommend stopping in for their great food, atmosphere, and colorful history.  

If you're planning to visit the North Fork of the CDA River, I highly recommend Albert's Landing.

Roadhouse on the CDA River - Rowdy RV Resort

Country Lane River Resort is located on the CDA River near Kingston, Idaho. The resort has its own down-home charm and is convenient for floating the river. It has a restaurant and bar, river float shuttle, full hookup RV sites, and tent sites. The staff are helpful and friendly too.

Unfortunately, it's a crowded, inebriated mess on the weekends. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a drunken, dehydrated float down the river like anybody else, but I also like to retreat to the privacy of a quiet campsite to sleep off the day's indulgences. The problem with the Country Lane Resort is that there's precious little privacy and the noise rarely drops below the level of a Toby Keith concert. 

It's also highly likely you'll see some drunken fool flying a confederate flag on his UTV. This actually happened the weekend I was there. I know it's Idaho but come on people. 

The Country Lane Resort is a mashup of the Double Duece roadhouse, a Hank Williams, Jr. concert, and a MAGA rally. Certainly this will appeal to some campers, but it's probably not for most. 

Despite the great staff, the Country Lane Resort is just too damned loud and drunk to be any fun for someone looking to relax in the peace and quiet of the great outdoors.

Convenient but Crowded

This was our first visit to an RV “resort” and it wasn’t horrible. MarDon has lots of nice amenities but boy is it crowded. If you don’t mind crowds and like the convenience of resort camping MarDon is a good choice.

(Disclaimer: I prefer boondocking and getting as far away from people as possible, so read this review with that in mind.)

MarDon Resort sits on Potholes Reservoir about 16 miles southwest of Moses Lake. The reservoir is massive and offers excellent fishing and water sports. Central Washington gets dry and hot in the summer so come prepared.

The Resort has been around since the 1970s and offers a lot of amenities: full hookup sites, tent sites, monthly rates, marina, restaurant & bar, swimming beach, mini golf, boat & golf cart rentals and more.

First to Review
Welcome to the Wild West - Beautiful but Busy

At first glance, Cow Lake is a beautiful and secluded oasis tucked away in the scablands of Eastern Washington.

However, the area is a very popular local fishing and recreation spot and gets crowded on the weekends.

Cow Lake is about 10 miles east of Ritzville and is a free, dispersed camping area.

The road here is dirt and the last mile or so is pretty rough. But, most vehicles shouldn’t have any problems.

There are no services, facilities or potable water but cell service was good.

We arrived early Friday afternoon and there were just 2 other vehicles here. But, by evening there were over a dozen boisterous people fishing along the shore. Sound travels well over water and it was very noisy.

Luckily, the people fishing left and we basically had the area to ourselves until Saturday morning when family groups arrived for a day of fishing and fun.

By far the worst of it was the yahoos who came in later that evening to drink and shoot their guns. It was like we were camping in the middle of a shooting range.

We would not camp here again. Too crowded, too noisy & too many guns.