Finding Our Way
Campground: Cave Creek Regional Park Location: Cave Creek, Arizona Site: 9 Cost: $30 Services: E (50 AMP), W Comments: The campground has nicely groomed spacious sites with great views and easy access to hiking trails. Even though it is close proximity to a built up area it was very quiet
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Campground: McDowell Mountain Regional Park Location: Fountain Hills, Arizona Site: 74 Cost: $30 Services: E (50 AMP), W Comments: A beautiful park with wide open vista view of mountains and desert. Sites are nicely spaced and beautifully groomed. The park has over 65 miles of hiking and biking trails. A
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Picacho Peak is right off I-10 between Phoenix and Tucson which makes it a handy place to stop, rest, hike, and relax before heading on to the next destination. Campground: Picacho Peak State Park Location: Picacho, Arizona Site: B18 Cost: $25 Services: E (50 AMP), W Comments: A lovely
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If you are military/retired military and you need to be in or near Tucson then this place is a great place to stay. A nice, neat, RV park with great views right in the heart of Tucson. Campground: Agave Gulch RV Park Location: Davis Monthan Air Force Base – Tucson,
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Whitewater Draw Wildlife Preserve is owned and operated by the Arizona Department of Fish and Game. It is located just south of McNeal, Arizona and about 20 miles north of Douglas, Arizona. It is accessible for a primitive dirt road which means you might get a bit dusty and dirty
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Rockhound State Park, nestled in the Florida Mountains southeast of Deming, is a unique state park where you are free to collect rock samples, up to 15 pounds, and take home with you. This park, as the name implies, is frequented by “Rockhounds”. It is a beautiful setting with
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Valley of Fires Recreation Area is a 5,000 year old lava flow which is one of the youngest in the continental USA and is approximately 5 miles wide and 40 miles long and 160 feet deep. The campground is managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and sits above
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We had stayed here a number of years ago and got a site that was down the hill and unlevel. This year we made sure to request a level pull thru on top of the hill. We did get a pull thru and we did get on top of the
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Abiquiu is a small town located north of Santa Fe by about 60 miles and was made famous by the painter Georgia O’Keefe. It is home to Cerro Pedernal (Flint Hill), Ghost Ranch, a monastery in the desert, a mosque, lots of hiking trails and forest roads, and is surrounded
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We had wanted to attend the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta for a number of years and we decided last year that this was the year. We knew we wanted to stay at the fiesta grounds to avoid traffic and we wanted to stay the entire week to ensure we had some
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