Encore Countryside

We are spending our first winter here and really enjoy Countryside. We have already signed up for next winter.

There are lots of things to do here. Activities abound. Pool, jacuzzi, shuffleboard, corn hole, and more. Movies, games, and get together as well as food trucks and outside entertainment. Looking forward to returning.

Neighbors are great. Rachel in the office is amazing. Very grateful for her.

We stayed at Encore Countryside for the month of January. The park is clean, the sites are tidy. The residents seem to genuinely care about their slice of the park. The sites aren’t big, but we had enough room to extend our awning. The concrete pad is a great addition to any camping spot. So much to do in the park/community; food trucks, BINGO, swimming pool, hot tub. Rachel, the manager, was super friendly, and helpful. When we did have a concern, she handled it quickly. Great view of Superstition Mountain and beautiful sunsets.

My husband and I are spending our first season here at Countryside. The park is neat and clean with open flat spaces to park our toy hauler. There are multiple activities, going on practically all day every day, line dance classes every morning are my fav! If you get bored here it’s your own fault 😂. This park is full of friendly people and great office staff, and management (Rachel is amazing). We are having a wonderful time so far and plan on returning every year!

This is a very nice park full of very nice people, including Rachel and Meghan in the office. There are great daily activities for just about anyone who wants to partake, whether you are staying short- or long-term. There are also scheduled activities (like dances, carnivals, potluck dinners) held throughout each month (especially over the winter). Food trucks come weekly. Activities are all scheduled by the park association rather than the RV resort itself. There is a large clubhouse, a nice pool and hot tub area, a billiards room, craft room, shuffleboard court, very large library, media room (with lots of movies, games and puzzles available), fitness room and laundry facilities. The only thing that was missing was a pickleball court (which is apparently available at a sister site a couple of miles away).

The spaces are very large and level - you get a hard-packed dirt space to park your rig with a large, cement pad on the door side as well as another hard-packed dirt site on the other side of the cement pad to park your tow vehicle. Though most of the spaces are also long (giving you lots of room to sit either on your cement pad or behind it), it can feel a bit crowded if you have a large rig in the next site.

There were some issues with cleanliness and maintenance of the public spaces (bathroom, showers, laundry room) during our stay. While they changed cleaning companies shortly after we arrived (and we did notice a bit of an improvement in cleanliness), there were many issues with the toilets near the fitness centre. One of the toilets was not secured to the ground and would tip over, while the other was always clogged and overflowing. The on-site maintenance person did as well as he could, but it finally got to a point where even he had to complain the management about it. They finally brought in a plumber to resolve the issues, but only after the issues had existed for quite a few weeks.

We experienced a god-awful stink quite a few times. We knew it wasn’t our rig as we only ever have pee in our black tank (along with lots of water). And it was beyond someone simply dumping their tanks. It was so bad the first time we experienced it (along with many others around us) that we called the after-hours emergency number, which happened to be Gene’s cell phone. He didn’t answer, nor did he call me back (ever) to say he had received the message or was doing anything about it. We didn’t get a chance to talk to the office about it the next day (a Friday) and the stink seemed to have dissipated, so we thought the issue was resolved. Until that evening when it returned and again on Sunday morning (when it was so bad it woke us up at 6am!). I finally ran into Charlie, the maintenance guy, on Monday morning (while he was dealing with the final straw in the ever-clogged toilet) and explained what had been happening over the weekend. He told me that Gene had (finally!) arranged to have the holding tanks below our site pumped out, along with several others that were apparently long overdue. (He has also arranged to have a plumber come deal with the long-standing toilet issues when Charlie threatened to quit.) No one had yet called us back to inform us that this would be happening or even when. They finally showed up on Tuesday afternoon and it was all (mostly) good after that.

No one should ever be subjected to the kind of smell we experienced on more than one occasion, and it never should have gotten to that point! Pumping out (well-used) holding tanks in an older RV park is something that should be done on a regular basis, especially towards the end of a busy winter season. The people we met there were lovely and we enjoyed our stay (other than the smell). I would have given four or five stars if the management was better. However, because of the lack of seriously needed, regular maintenance, we won’t be returning to Countryside RV.

Such a nice friendly park the staff... welcomed us & worked with us through our difficult schedule .
There's a really nice laundry room
Shuffle board
Pool
Hot tub
Big patio slabs
Clean clean clean huge rv park right off the freeway..
Call ahead and reserve makes it easier for you & staff . I enjoyed tenants Christmas displays & the sunsets i could see from there its close to the (4 sons station) who have wonderful huge pizzas . You can't go wrong here. I'll post the sunsets I caught from there & the buy 1 get 1 pizza i got from next door at 4 sons delicious... order pizza there before 5 tho.. 😉
This is a 55 up park ..I loved this place & the quiet area 😍❤