Sky Valley Resort

We wanted to explore the Palm Springs area, but our week here coincided with a big country music festival, so our options for RV parks in the area was very limited. We booked the week at the Sky Valley Resort, which is a fairly typical 55+ retirement community. The park is filled with 90% park models for the snow bird crowd coming to the area to enjoy the warm weather, with the remaining sites for RVs. Our site was not good. The site was sand with a concrete pad measuring about 6x8 that was broken into dozens of pieces and unusable. Our site is considered a pull through premium site. In order to pull through the site, we needed to pull off the road, drive along the dirt access road along the back of the two adjacent sites. If we wanted to park our tow vehicle on our site, we needed to go off road to park behind our coach. Getting in and out was a 4x4 adventure. The park has two club houses with pools, hot tubs and other amenities. The workout room was small and looks to be used very infrequently as many of the machines and benches were not in working condition. Dumbbells go up to 50 lbs, but no working benches to do much with them. There is a single bike, treadmill and eliptical machine. They have a small library and several meeting rooms for various activities. The club house was nice, clean and updates, save for the work out room. Location, location, location. The park is 30 minutes away from Palm Springs and Palm Desert, which is not too bad, but the area is more than a little sketchy. We thought the GPS was taking in the wrong direction after we left I-10 because the area is so dilapidated. We rate the resort a 2 out of 5 primarily because our site was so bad and the surrounding area.