The Gathering Place was a great headquarters for our St. Anthony Sand Dunes trip. It was centrally located between Egin Lake staging and the town of Rexburg. The time to staging was around 10 minutes and the time to Rexburg was also around 10 minutes.
The property was gorgeous. Very park like. A lot of green grass, big trees, birds singing and a flowing river with a nearby fire pit. We had some fun playing corn hole and we brought our own disc golf basket. Lots and lots of room to play.
We had five trucks and flatbed trailers. There was plenty of parking in the field beside the house and we felt safe leaving our trailers and side by sides there as we went to explore other areas.
We had the max amount of people and the only area that ever felt slightly crowded was the kitchen. It’s a little bit of a strange set up, but still works. We figured out the flow pretty quickly.
The separation of the house was perfect for our group. The master bedroom, 2nd bedroom, kitchen, half bath and the living room downstairs. 3 bedrooms, a family room, and a bathroom upstairs. The kids could be upstairs playing and watching tv and everyone else downstairs playing games. A large dining table made that possible.
We were a little worried about no air conditioning in the house, we had a couple of almost 90 degree days and it stayed pleasant and then cooled right down at night. I’m not sure how that would go later in the summer though.
Sharie was great and stayed in communication with us.
The whole house was super clean and even our germ-a-phob was happy.
The ONLY negative would be that we did see a mouse. And when we tried to trap it, we ended up finding 2 dead mice in the vent. I think the dead mice happened while we were there because when we arrived that bedroom was clean and smelled fine. But somewhere around mid stay that room started to smell. The house is located in the county, near fields and they were doing some digging. Might be a one time thing.
We would stay again!