We Paid $74 to Stay at Love's RV Stop (Here's What We Found)

We've overnighted at Walmarts, Cracker Barrels, and even a casino or two. Those stops are free, and you get what you pay for: a parking lot, some road noise, and no hookups. Love's RV Stops sit in a different tier. Ours cost about $74 for the night, which is more than plenty of full-service campgrounds charge. So the question we wanted to answer in this video was simple: do you actually get $74 of value, or is it just a fancy parking lot behind a truck stop?

What our Love's RV Stop cost

Our night came to $73.92: $63 for the site, $7.56 in taxes, and a $3 booking fee. That was one night at the Love's RV Stop in DeMotte, Indiana, in June 2026, so check the price for your stop when you book.

The diesel discount took some of that back. The pump said $5.68 a gallon, and with the Open Roads program we paid $4.64, about $1.20 a gallon less. More on that below.

We wrote up the site itself, with the hookups, check-in, Starlink and site size, in our Love's RV Stop DeMotte campsite page.

Watch the full video on YouTube.

What a Love's RV Stop actually is

If you've only seen the regular Love's truck stops along the interstate, the RV Stop is a separate area with actual RV sites: full hookups, pull-throughs, and its own entrance away from the truck parking. You book a numbered site, not a patch of asphalt. That alone puts it ahead of the usual overnight options, but it also means it gets judged like a campground, not like free parking.

The level test: staying hitched with the slides out

Travel-day stops only save time if you can skip the full setup. Our test for any one-night stay is whether we can stay hitched to the truck and still put the slides out, and that comes down to how level the site is. Our site passed. We stayed hitched, ran the slides, and were set up in minutes instead of the usual unhitch-and-level routine. For a one-night stop, that matters more than almost anything else.

Water hookups and what came out of the tap

The site had water and full hookups, and we ran everything through our Blu Tech AR3 filter like we always do after finding lead in a campground's water earlier this year. This time the water ran clear through the filter, and you can see it in the video. Short version: good news here, but we still won't drink campground water unfiltered.

The amenities surprised us

We expected a glorified parking lot. We got a playground, a dog park, and a tennis court. Love's lists laundry in the check-in building too, but that building was closed when we stayed and we never found the laundry, so don't count on knocking out a few loads on a travel day.

The one thing nobody warns you about

Here's the catch we didn't see coming, and it isn't site spacing. There's lots of room between sites. But at night, with the lights on and the windows open, we realized we could see right into a neighbor's RV, which means they could see right into ours. Close your shades once it gets dark. This is a one-night stop, not a destination.

The diesel discount that offsets the price

The part that changes the whole value question: Love's participates in the Open Roads diesel discount program, and on this stop we saved about $1.20 per gallon. Fill a truck like ours and a chunk of that $74 site fee comes right back. If you tow with a diesel and you're not using a discount program yet, that's the first thing we'd fix.

So is it worth $74?

For a travel day, yes, with caveats. You're paying for a level pull-through, full hookups, and fuel savings in one stop, and that combination beats a free parking lot by more than the price difference when you're tired and rolling in late. What you're not getting is quiet or a reason to stay a second night. We'd stop at one again on a long haul. We wouldn't plan a weekend around it.

Watch the full stay, including the level test and the filter results, on YouTube. We also send a short weekly newsletter about where we are and what broke this week. The signup form is on our newsletter page.