WirelessTrips.com Campground Review: Big Red Barn RV Park, Carthage, Missouri
This park was added to our itinerary at the last minute. What a good choice it turned out to be.
The first thing that strikes you is how clean and orderly the entire park is. By far it is the cleanest park we’ve ever stayed at.
It seems to cater to the full-timer crowd, as there wasn’t much for the kids to do. But the owners do a good job of catering to that segment of the market.
The WiFi was very good - consistently providing just over 400K upload and download speeds. (By comparison, we have about 500K of bandwidth up and down on our home DSL line.) It certainly ranks in the top five WiFi connections we’ve encountered so far. And best of all it is entirely free.
I spoke with Bob, the owner, about the WiFi and it turns out he installed it all himself. After much research, he told me, he decided to go with the offering from the local utility company. They actually beam the signal to him wirelessly, then he in turn re-broadcasts the signal through his own antenna setup out to the park itself.
One thing - they don’t take credit cards. So be sure to bring cash with you to pay for everything. (A full hook-up site was only $20 per night).
Four out of five marshmallows.
Big Red Barn RV Park
5089 CL 138
Carthage, MO 64836
417-358-2432
Latitude: N 37 deg 07′37″
Longitude: W 94 deg 18′16″
http://www.bigredbarnrvpark.com/
May 15th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
I visited the Big Red Barn recently and learned that there are new owners and that they have made improvements to the WI-Fi by adding a 71′ tower and as you said rebroadcast the signal in the park, all areas get a very strong and very fast signal and the park now takes credit cards. The owners say that they are expanding the park over the next couple years and will be adding more amenities. The park is supper clean, the people very friendly and willing to help. The sites are large and the over all feeling of the park with all the trees and wild life is something that calls you back to stay a while, I know we are headed back for an extended stay this fall.