Banning, CA - Silent Valley a ROD park

We had a late start this morning because our motor coach would not start. Bill enlisted the aid of the park maintenance man and used our Yaris to jump start the coach. We really need to look into new batteries. The drive from Yuma, AZ to the town of Banning, CA was pretty uneventful. However, from Banning it was a ten mile harrowing drive up a narrow, winding mountain road to Silent Valley RV park. This park is a ROD park and we were expecting great things. To our disappointment, the park was virtually empty. There was a sea of orange plastic bags over most of the electric meters and we were told to go and find one that was not covered. The spot we found was not very level, as you can see from the picture above. Bill had to put his tool box under the steps so we could step on it in order to get into the rig. Walking around the park we discovered that the pool was closed and there was some uncertainty about the status of the hot tub. The night of our arrival we left our tow car in one of those numerous closed spots next to our rig. The next day we headed into town and on our return found a note reprimanding us for taking two spots. Oh well...we moved the car onto our site. Later in the day we were confronted by the maintenance team who handed us the rule sheet and told us we needed to use wood under the stabilizing pads on our rig. After reading the rule several times we didn't see how it applied to us since we have a fairly new rig with adequate size pads. But....there was no pleasing the two maintenance men who were not leaving until they were sure we had complied with the rule. They told us in warm weather small pads would sink into the asphalt and ruin it. Gee, it is winter and the temperature is close to freezing! The more I thought about the park and its rule enforcers, the lack of activities, and the cold climate the more I didn't want to be here. So I suggested that we mosey on out of here the next day and bump up our reservations to Wilderness Lakes by a few days. On the way out of the park we cancelled the future reservations we had made for Silent Valley. No wonder Silent Valley is so Silent; who would want to be here under these conditions when there are so many other wonderful places to choose from.