Reviews

For Moss Creek Lake Park: DON'T BOTHER COMING HERE. We would have been better off staying at WM. After paying $12 for w/e, all the power supplies were not working properly. (Open ground) Not gonna chance it. Stayed boondocking style. Did have a lake view.

Posted Mar 28, 2018 by KBKECK from Washington. This is the subjective opinion of a traveler and not of AllStays LLC.

For Moss Creek Lake Park: I am not sure what one would need to do to make this park any worse. Maybe take a backhoe to the roadbed or spray it with Agent Orange. Having read the allstays.com reviews (2), we were prepared for a run-down, garbage-strewn, unkempt, grounds with questionable hookups. We probably should have prepared for the overwhelming sadness.

From the initial turn from the road, through the gate to the frontage road leading to the place where folks were camping?very sharp and impossible to navigate with a trailer larger than 25 feet?everything was inhospitable. Limited signage, including any sign to indicate this was a park?save the Gate locked from 10 pm to 7 am??forced us to guess about everything. Do not attempt dark arrival; there is no functional park lighting and some pretty hairy potholes to avoid. I think we were locked in for 9 hours.

Upon entering, one is immediately struck (almost literally) by the rusty metal gates with rebar spikes sticking out of them (to keep people from ramming the gates after hours--although why anybody would want to enter this scab of land so badly eludes us). We made the turn, barely, and drove 100 yards or so to the 20 +/- RV sites offering hookups, a moderately level horseshoe-shaped area with and outer and inner roadbed joined by 40-50' long, pull through sites set back quite a way from the lake. Two other longer-term resident trailers were present?but no humans visible. (They remained unseen for our short stay, possibly oil field workers.) We picked a spot away from the others.

Our first spot was on a slight grade, but that wasn't the reason we abandoned it. We looked at the hookups and found no sewer, no handle on the spigot, and a very scary power outlet terminals. (We have photos, but cannot post them. Take our word for it.) We looked for a more functional spot, picking a more level one between our 2 neighbors out of necessity: most of the other sites' hookups were similarly damaged or incomplete. Seeing no visible campground host, the more permanent of the 2 trailers welcomed us with a Don't worry about the dog; beware the owner sign, with the menacing graphic depicting the business end of a revolver aimed at us. We walked back toward the entrance gate to try to find the pay station.

We surveyed the grounds as we walked the mile to the only structure. Although there were ample dumpsters around the border of the sites, most people just abandoned trash, only to have the winds snag it on unpruned trees and shrubs surrounding the sites: plastic bags, candy wrappers, beer bottles, Styrofoam coolers, all manner of waste. A large pile of garbage, including an old abandoned refrigerator, lay behind our spot. Excrement (Peccary? Coyote? Dog? Human?) liberally spotted the grounds. There was a lake, but no visible way to access it and, no signage. This place could have been a set from The Walking Dead.?

We approached the only house on the edge of the earthen dam creating this lake?an unmarked house surrounded by half a dozen junky cars, old tires, lots of metal scrap. This office looked meth-ravaged, but had that been the case, one would see signs of failed attempts to clean the park up a little. We decided it was heroin. Our approach set multiple dogs barking and straining their chains beyond a rusted self-pay station. Only these dogs acknowledged our existence. Handwritten instructions in black Sharpie amounted to little more than threats of a fine if fees were not paid. Paid $15.00 for our full hookup. I considered the fee a donation to the general fund, seeing no evidence of any investment in the maintenance of the park if it ever found its way into the city's books at all.

If allstays.com hadn't said so, there was no way to know it was a park. On some level, it is no longer a park. Spiritually speaking, this place has been utterly abandoned for years. Like places I would have gone as a kid to drink beer, no one would be there to bother you and anyone who was there wouldn't mind a bunch of drunk kids.

Texas Pride wasn't displayed her. We've stayed in some dumpy/spooky places, but those were private RV parks. This place is in a sad league of its own among the city/county parks we have visited. Big Pine must never read the memo about using public spaces to inspire civic pride. The cumulative effect of this place was enough though to get us up and out early and skip our next stop and boogie directly to Austin instead of risking another taste of rural Texas pride in between. We're not Messin' with Texas. Moss Creek Lake Park is already messy enough.

Posted Jan 07, 2018 by Ian from Sandy, OR. This is the subjective opinion of a traveler and not of AllStays LLC.

For Moss Creek Lake Park: We like to find city parks and use Allstays to find them. Not sure this park should be included in the listing due to its condition. The 30amp power has an open ground, the park doesn't look like it has been mowed for quite some time, there is a great deal of trash throughout the park. All in all, it doesn't look to me that the city of Big Spring cares about the park nor the very bad impression visitors will have of the city. If improvements are not made, I would recommend that this park be removed from the Allstays listings.

Posted Apr 29, 2017 by Nehusker33 from Wy. This is the subjective opinion of a traveler and not of AllStays LLC.

For Moss Creek Lake Park: The lake is pretty, scenery is pretty, but the park is run down. I decided to stay in a dry camping spot instead of a full hook up or a partial hook up because those spots looked very run down. I didn't want to hook up my electricity to something that looked like it was built in the 50's. The dry camp spots have a great view of the lake but there is a lot of trash. There is an office, but it looks like a house and there is a note on the door that says use the dropbox that is in the parking lot. It is impossible to tell from the road which spots are full hook ups and which are partial. I paid nine dollars for a dry spot which is a pretty good price for a view of the lake. There are stairs going down to the lake at one of the dry spots but after the concrete steps run out the wooden steps are unsupported over eroded soil and water. It surprises me that there are no warning signs. At another dry spot there are the remnants of what used to be steps but only the railings remain.

Posted Mar 22, 2017 by Leslie from CO. This is the subjective opinion of a traveler and not of AllStays LLC.