Tent Camping near Yarnell, Arizona
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5.0
Meadview RV Park & Cozy Cabins
25 RV Sites, 1 Cabin, 4 Tent Sites
Meadview RV Park & Cozy Cabins in Meadview, AZ, offers 25 full-hookup RV sites, 1 cabin, and 4 tent sites, with 30 and 50-amp service and back-in sites for rigs up to 42 feet. Sites are split between an upper level and a lower level, all back-ins carrying water, sewer, and electric with a picnic table and barbecue, and ADA-accessible sites are available. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, and a dump station cover the essentials. Pets are welcome. This is a small, straightforward park — full hookups, level sites, and a quiet night in country where the nearest services are a long way off. There's no recreation program on the grounds, which is fitting given what's outside them. Meadview sits at about 3,400 feet in the remote northwest Arizona strip country, where the western Grand Canyon meets Lake Mead — Grand Canyon West and the Colorado River are the reason to make the drive. Rates for sites, the cabin, and tent spots are on the booking page. Stock up on supplies before you arrive; this is a genuinely remote corner of the state.
from $20/night
3.2
Gateway To The Petrified Forest RV Resort
31 RV Sites, 7 Tent Sites
Gateway to the Petrified Forest RV Resort in Holbrook, Arizona, offers 31 full-hookup pull-through RV sites and seven tent sites with 30 and 50-amp service, sized for rigs to 45 feet, 22 miles from Petrified Forest National Park. Every RV site is pull-through — the right configuration for a park-touring stop on the Route 66 and I-40 corridor. Thirty-one pull-through sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp, sized to 45 feet, with water-and-electric pull-through options also available. Seven tent sites cover dry camping. A general store handles supplies, and a community fire pit anchors the evenings. The gravel lots are sized for rigs of most configurations. Pets are welcome. On-site facilities are practical rather than extensive — this is a national park base rather than a destination resort, and guests spend their days out in the painted desert country. The community fire pit and shaded picnic areas cover the campground socializing that suits a park-visitor property. The distances are what matter here. Petrified Forest National Park is 22 miles, the Painted Desert 42 miles, and Winslow — where you can stand on the corner and visit the La Posada museum and restaurant — is 41 miles, all on the historic Route 66 alignment. Holbrook itself carries genuine Wild West character in the architecture and streets around the park entrance, which makes it more than a waypoint. The resort operates on the I-40 corridor year-round. Spring and fall deliver the most comfortable conditions for walking the petrified forest and painted desert, and those shoulder seasons carry the heaviest demand. Reserve ahead for March through May and September through October.
from $28/night
5.0
Country Rose RV Park
48 RV Sites, 4 Tent Sites
Country Rose RV Park in Fredonia, Arizona, offers 48 full-hookup RV sites and four tent sites at the Arizona-Utah border, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 45 feet. Back-in and pull-through categories join a general store, laundry, dump station, community fire pit, and dog park. Forty-eight sites run in back-in and pull-through categories, both carrying water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp, sized to 45 feet, with picnic tables. Two straightforward categories keep booking simple. Four tent sites and cabins round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, dump station, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. One practical note for planning: Arizona stays on Mountain Standard Time year-round, though Navajo lands observe daylight saving — worth checking your clock against your itinerary. A community fire pit, dog park, and picnicking fill the grounds, with a river nearby. The amenity set is deliberately spare, which keeps rates reasonable for a park whose guests are here for what surrounds it. Pets are welcome. Fredonia sits in Coconino County at the gateway to the Grand Canyon's North Rim — the quieter, higher, less-visited side of the canyon, roughly 80 miles south through the Kaibab Plateau's ancient ponderosa forest. Zion is close to the north, with Bryce, Coral Pink Sand Dunes, and the Vermilion Cliffs all within range. The North Rim season runs mid-May to mid-October, and that is the window. Reserve well ahead for summer.
from $35 $31/night
4.67
Joshua Tree Lake RV & Campground
39 RV Sites, 79 Tent Sites
Joshua Tree Lake RV Campground in Joshua Tree, California, provides a lakeside and desert camping experience at the gateway to Joshua Tree National Park—the 800,000-acre California desert preserve where the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts converge and the iconic twisted Joshua trees create the alien landscape that has made this park one of the most photographed national parks in the American West. The campground's pond and lake, wedding venue, live music programming, and exceptional dark-sky stargazing access distinguish it from the park's own developed campgrounds, providing resort-amenity camping with the Joshua Tree character—moonlit boulder piles, star-filled desert skies, and the haunting silhouettes of Yucca brevifolia in the desert night—that defines the high-desert camping experience at the edge of one of California's most beloved national parks. The campground's facility reflects the desert environment and destination event character: a private lake and pond for fishing and desert water recreation, planned activities and live music and entertainment programming that takes advantage of the dramatic desert landscape setting, a wedding venue for celebrations in the Joshua Tree destination event market, bird and wildlife watching in the desert tortoise and roadrunner habitat, a general store, pavilion, showers, bathrooms, dump station, pet-friendly policies, Wi-Fi, and mountain and desert views that frame every camping site with the park scenery that brought guests to Joshua Tree in the first place. Stargazing events and the campground's exceptional night-sky access provide the evening programming that no facilities can improve upon in this dark-sky desert. Joshua Tree National Park's Wonderland of Rocks—a concentration of massive rounded granite monoliths that rose from magma intrusions 100 million years ago and were exposed by erosion to create the boulder-pile landscape that defines the park's distinctive visual character—contains over 8,000 documented rock climbing routes that have made Joshua Tree the most visited and most iconic rock climbing destination in North America. The Skull Rock Nature Trail, Keys View's panoramic Coachella Valley overlook, and the Cottonwood Spring oasis in the Sonoran Desert section provide the representative national park experiences accessible on day hikes from the campground's Joshua Tree gateway position. The town of Joshua Tree, Twentynine Palms, and the High Desert arts and culture community that has grown around the national park's western gateway have developed a distinctive creative culture of galleries, music venues, and the annual Joshua Tree Music Festival that reflect the desert landscape's effect on artistic practice in the creative community that has colonized the Morongo Valley's high desert terrain. The Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum in Joshua Tree—a free outdoor sculpture garden of assemblage art created by Purifoy from the debris of the 1965 Watts Riots—is one of the most significant and unusual outdoor art installations in California. Joshua Tree Lake RV Campground operates year-round in the high Mojave Desert's four-season climate, with the fall and spring seasons from October through April delivering the most comfortable desert temperatures for hiking, rock climbing, and boulder exploration in Joshua Tree National Park—the summer months above 100 degrees Fahrenheit make the park's sun-exposed terrain genuinely dangerous for unprepared hikers in the heat of the day, while the mild winter nights create extraordinary stargazing conditions when the desert air's low humidity and the campground's minimal light pollution combine with the Milky Way's winter arc over the park's boulder silhouettes. The spring wildflower season in February and March after winter rains creates the desert bloom that brings maximum visitor volume to Joshua Tree.
from $15/night
