Bakersfield Palms RV Park

Don’t stay here! March, 2016
This park is full of full timers that are not the typical RV people we usually see– undisireables for sure to the point that you lock everything up, don’t wander off and concerned about your safety. Their spaces are unkept and junky.
They even lock the electrical boxes at each site and cut it off with bolt cutters? The trains are loud, but that’s the least of our worries. They do have security gates, not sure why!
We are in a 39 ft motorhome & towing — this park was difficult to maneuver around due to tight turns. We stayed here because of Passport America, We will never stay here again!

We didn’t stay here but wish we had! We’d had reservations at another park and they didn’t hold our reservation and were full when we got there and we ended up at another park… argh;)
Well, the next morning, we decided to check out Camping World before we left and they told us about the restaurant here so we pulled our truck and Airstream in and had breakfast there. Took a little spin around the park before we left and liked what we saw. Breakfast was good and the price was right! They have a bar in the grill so would be a good place to hang out after a long day of driving. The park itself looked nice and they had spaces specifically set aside for overnight/​short stays which is awesome. So many parks today have all the spaces taken up by long term people making it hard to grab a night here and there on a road trip!

I found this location to be a nice

We went to this RV park and the staff were really friendly. The showers and bathrooms were clean. I couldn’t believe how far off of I-​5 it was! The sites were nice and well maintained. The only problem was the railroad tracks and the trains that came through during the night. The good news is the helicopters and planes stopped flying after about 10PM. This is a place to stay for a night– not for much longer because there just isn’t much to do. There was easy access to the highway. The park is in the midst of the industrial area.

Very disappointed! $ 33 per night! The railroad tracks ran literally next to the RV park. The trains were loud, long, frequent and shook our fifth wheel all night long! The hot tub couldn’t have been hotter than the 90 degrees. The wifi code was only good for one device so my husband and I had to share one iPad. We were exhausted after a long day of traveling and hardly slept a wink! I would not recommend this RV park!

Well… the overnight area was nice looking enough, and everything worked. BUT the noise from trains rolling past every few minutes, a truckstop next door, and a couple of busy highways a block away was unbelieveable! And in the morning when I took my dog for a walk to the «dog park», I found that it was not fenced in, and the full timers there apparently don’t all clean up after their dogs. Also, the «full timer» area was really kind of run down, and unkempt appearing. Some of the residents allow their dogs to roam around off leash, and my little shih tzu and I got barked at, growled at, and chased on our one walk.
We were happy that we only had reservations for one night. But the seven hour drive the next day was pretty rough because of the lack of sleep.
Will we stay again… OH HECK NO!

My family and I are on an RV trip from San Francisco to Vegas to Big Sur, and Bakersfield is right between Vegas and Big Sur. There is absolutely nothing here, but it’s a good place to crash. The reasons this place earned the first three stars are the super friendly staff, the clean bathroom/​showers, the pool, and the hot tub. Also, it’s really easy to find and is pretty close to 58. The reason it doesn’t get the last two stars is that it is located right along side several train tracks. Yep, big huge trains were loudly storming by all night. We have an infant with us and it was a miracle she slept through it. Also, around dusk we began to notice a strong sewage smell. We couldn’t identify the source and were briefly conviced it was our own RV since we don’t fully understand how to operate it. But no, something else was causing the smell. Anyway, it’s otherwise a pleasant place to make a pit stop, but not a vacation destination.