RV Camping near Apache Junction, Arizona

Sunrise RV Resort

5 RV Sites

Sunrise RV Resort in Apache Junction, AZ, offers 5 full-hookup back-in RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 40 feet. Sites are standard short-term back-ins carrying water, sewer, and electric. This is a 55+ community, gated, with laundry, a bathhouse with showers, personal mailboxes, and recycling. Pets are welcome, with a dog park. The resort posts local emergency numbers for police, animal control, and the utility alongside 911 — a small thing that reflects how the place is run. The amenity list belongs to the wider community rather than the five sites: a heated outdoor pool, a hot tub and sauna, a fitness center, a recreation center, a clubhouse, a library, a craft room, sport courts, tennis, pickleball, shuffleboard, billiards, walking trails, and live entertainment. Apache Junction sits at the base of the Superstition Mountains, forty minutes east of Phoenix in the high desert. Rates for short-term stays are on the booking page. Confirm the 55+ requirement, and note that short-term RV availability here is genuinely limited — call rather than assume.

from $49/night

Blue Star RV Resort

Blue Star RV Resort in Apache Junction, Arizona, is a 55-plus community offering full-hookup RV sites with water, sewer, and electric in back-in configurations, open all year in the Superstition Mountain foothills east of Phoenix. An outdoor pool, clubhouse, library, game room, and a dedicated pet area anchor an active-adult resort with mountain views. Full-hookup sites carry water, sewer, and electric with site WiFi throughout, in back-in configurations. Laundry, restrooms, and showers serve the extended winter residencies that make up most of the occupancy. The resort is open year-round, and its location keeps the weather workable across most of the calendar. The amenity package reflects the active-adult model. An outdoor pool covers year-round aquatic recreation in the Sonoran climate, a clubhouse anchors community programming, and a game room, library, and billiards fill the social calendar. Walking trails run the grounds and a dedicated dog park gives pets their own space — the resort explicitly welcomes them. Planned activities run through the season, with a golf course, casino, and state park all nearby. Apache Junction sits where the East Valley's suburban edge meets the volcanic landscape of the Tonto National Forest. The Superstition Wilderness rises immediately east, giving the resort a mountain backdrop that few Phoenix-area retirement communities can match, and putting genuine wilderness rather than commercial density at the doorstep. Peak season runs the winter months, when snowbirds from across North America fill the East Valley's age-qualified communities. Book well ahead for January through March, and expect easier availability through the hot summer months when the resort stays open but demand eases.

from $67/night

Sunhaven RV Resort

15 RV Sites

Sunhaven RV Resort in Apache Junction, AZ, offers 15 full-hookup back-in RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 40 feet. Every site is a standard back-in carrying water, sewer, and electric. This is a 55+ community, and at 15 sites it's a small and settled one — the 40-foot maximum keeps it to mid-size rigs. Laundry and WiFi are on site, and pets are welcome with a dog park. The social side carries the resort: an outdoor pool, a hot tub and sauna, a fitness center, a clubhouse, a library, sport courts, pickleball, shuffleboard, and a billiards scene that residents will tell you is the real center of the place. Apache Junction sits in the East Valley's established active adult corridor, at the foot of the Superstition Mountains east of Mesa. Rates for monthly and seasonal stays are on the booking page. With 15 sites and a winter clientele, availability is genuinely tight from November through March.

from $50/night

Rosehaven Estates & RV Resort

48 RV Sites

Rosehaven Estates and RV Resort in Apache Junction, Arizona, is a 55-plus community offering 47 full-hookup RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 45 feet. Super and standard back-in and pull-through categories join a pool, hot tub, spa, fitness center, craft room, and library in the East Valley. Forty-seven sites span standard back-in, standard pull-thru, super back-in, and super pull-thru categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp, sized to 45 feet. Four tiers keep booking simple — pick your configuration and whether you need the extra room. A laundry and restrooms handle the practical side. An outdoor pool, hot tub, sauna, and spa anchor daily recreation, with a fitness center, clubhouse, game room, craft room, library, billiards, shuffleboard, pickleball, and a dog park filling the rest. Pets are welcome. The spa-centered wellness focus paired with genuine creative programming is what distinguishes this from the East Valley's many other active-adult properties — a craft room and library alongside the pool and courts make for a fuller day than shuffleboard alone. Apache Junction sits at the foot of the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix, with the Apache Trail, Lost Dutchman State Park, Canyon Lake, and Goldfield Ghost Town all close, and the full metro's medical, dining, and shopping infrastructure a short drive west. Winter is decisively the season in Arizona's 55-plus communities. December through March fills with snowbirds. Book well ahead for those months, with easy availability and considerable heat through the summer.

from $49/night

Pacific Manor

9 RV Sites

Pacific Manor in Apache Junction, Arizona, is a 55-plus community offering nine full-hookup back-in RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service, sized for rigs to 40 feet, at the base of the Superstition Mountains. A pool, hot tub and sauna, spa, fitness center, pickleball courts, and a clubhouse deliver a full active-adult amenity set at unusually small scale. Nine standard back-in sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp, sized to 40 feet. RV storage is available for residents who travel between stays, and laundry serves extended residencies. With nine sites, availability is genuinely limited — book well ahead rather than counting on a space. The recreation infrastructure is the draw and runs well beyond what nine sites would suggest. A pool and hot tub with sauna cover daily aquatic recreation, spa services and a fitness center round out wellness, and pickleball courts, billiards, shuffleboard, and a game room fill the competitive calendar. A clubhouse anchors community programming, with a library for quieter hours and a dog park for pets. A golf course is nearby. Pets are welcome. Apache Junction sits at the metropolitan area's eastern edge, where the Pinal County desert begins and the Superstition Wilderness extends east. The wilderness walls rise roughly 3,000 feet above the Sonoran floor, giving this community the most commanding mountain backdrop of any Phoenix-area retirement property. A state park is nearby, and supermarkets, medical facilities, pharmacies, restaurants, a mall, and a university are all in the immediate area. Winter is peak season across the East Valley's 55-plus market. Reserve as far ahead as possible for January through March.

from $48/night

Jakes Corner RV Park

5 RV Sites

Jakes Corner RV Park in Payson, AZ, offers 5 full-hookup back-in RV sites with 30-amp service and room for rigs up to 46 feet. Every site is a back-in carrying water, sewer, and electric. Note the electrical: this is a 30-amp park, so a rig wired for heavier service will need an adapter and some load management. Laundry is on the property and pets are welcome. Five sites with reliable full hookups is the whole offer, and in this country that's enough. The park sits on the site of an original stagecoach stop, on a route that once threaded the Mogollon Rim country — a piece of western history that still functions as a working RV park. Payson sits on Highway 188 in the rugged Rim country of central Arizona, with the Tonto National Forest, Roosevelt Lake, and the Rim itself all within reach. Rates and availability are on the booking page. Five sites means calling ahead is how you book here.

from $45/night

7LazyB Roping Camp

12 RV Sites

7LazyB Roping Camp in Wickenburg, Arizona, offers 12 full-hookup RV sites on nine acres of mesquite-shaded desert, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 40 feet. Back-in and pull-through categories join on-site roping arenas, horse pens, paddocks, a pet washing station, and a community fire pit. Twelve sites span back-in 30-amp, pull-thru 30-amp, and pull-thru 50-amp categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with site WiFi, sized to 40 feet. Three straightforward categories keep booking simple. A dump station, pet washing station, and community fire pit handle the practical side. One important navigation note: the listed address does not route correctly on GPS — navigate instead to JLM Tack and Consignment at 51031 US Highway 60/89 in Wickenburg and follow the park's directions from there. The horse infrastructure is the entire point. On-site roping arenas, stalls, pens, and paddocks make this a purpose-built destination for team ropers rather than an RV park that tolerates horses, and that combination is genuinely scarce. Pets are welcome, and the wash station serves both dogs and dusty gear. Wickenburg calls itself the Team Roping Capital of the World and has the arenas, events, and year-round western culture to support the claim. The town's Desert Caballeros Western Museum is among the better western art collections in the Southwest, the Hassayampa River Preserve is close for birding, and Phoenix is about an hour southeast. Roping season runs through the cooler months, with winter and spring events driving the sharpest demand. Reserve well ahead, and confirm arena and stall availability when you book.

from $50/night

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

Rice Ranch RV Park

153 RV Sites

Rice Ranch RV Park in Quartzsite, Arizona, offers 153 full-hookup RV sites on a big-rig-friendly layout, with 30 and 50-amp service. Categories are sized by rig — Slim, Mid-sized, and Large in both back-in and pull-through — alongside a general store, dog park, and pickleball in the Sonoran Desert. One hundred fifty-three sites span Slim back-in, Slim pull-through, mid-sized back-in, mid-sized pull-through, Large back-in, and Large pull-through categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp. Pricing and sizing by rig class is genuinely fair — a van or small trailer does not pay for space it cannot use, and a big coach knows exactly where it fits. A general store handles the practical side. A dog park and pickleball fill the grounds, with offroading nearby. Well-behaved pets are welcome, leashed outside your site. The amenity set is deliberately spare, which is exactly right here — guests come to Quartzsite for what happens outside the park, not inside it. Quartzsite is one of the strangest and most compelling seasonal phenomena in North America. A desert town of about 3,500 permanent residents in La Paz County swells to something like 200,000 snowbirds each winter, drawn by the gem and mineral shows, the sprawling flea markets, the vast BLM dispersed camping areas, and a warm, dry winter climate at the meeting point of the Sonoran and Mojave. Winter is the entire season here. January and February are peak, when the shows run and the town fills. Reserve as far ahead as you can for that window, with easy availability and blistering heat the rest of the year.

from $31/night

The Palms at River Edge

The Palms at River Edge in Ehrenberg, Arizona, delivers a family-friendly waterfront resort experience on the Colorado River in the Sonoran Desert where the Arizona-California border is defined entirely by the river's course, providing direct beach, boating, and water sports access on one of the American Southwest's most iconic waterways in a gated community environment suited to both seasonal stays and active water recreation enthusiasts. Positioned in La Paz County where the lower Colorado River corridor has developed as a winter snowbird and warm-weather water sports destination, the resort combines resort amenities with the Colorado River's recreational resources. The resort's facility is designed around the water-centric lifestyle that the Colorado River enables—a beach for swimming and launching non-motorized watercraft, a pool for independent aquatic recreation, paddle boarding, canoeing and kayaking access, fishing directly from the property's river frontage, and boating opportunities on the Colorado's broad lower channel. A gated entrance, clubhouse, recreation center, dog park, playground, general store, propane fills, and laundry serve the comprehensive residential and recreational needs of extended-stay guests, and the shuffleboard and swimming pools provide social recreation alongside the river's more active opportunities. The lower Colorado River at Ehrenberg flows through a landscape that represents the Sonoran Desert at its most dramatic geographic expression—a narrow, intensely green riparian corridor cutting through a stark, tan-and-rust desert environment where temperatures regularly exceed 110 degrees Fahrenheit in summer and the river's presence defines the zone of habitability in a landscape that would otherwise be entirely uninhabitable. The river's warm water—heated by the desert sun across hundreds of miles of Arizona and Nevada before reaching Ehrenberg—creates excellent conditions for water skiing, jet skiing, and tubing that have made the lower Colorado one of the country's most popular motorized water recreation destinations. Quartzsite, approximately 20 miles north on US-95, is one of the American Southwest's most fascinating community phenomena—a small desert town that swells from a few thousand permanent residents to several hundred thousand during the January and February gem show and winter RV rally season, creating one of the largest temporary human gatherings in the western United States in a remote desert location. The Dome Rock Mountains to the east and the Trigo Mountains to the west provide off-road recreation terrain for guests with OHV equipment, and the BLM land surrounding Ehrenberg contains extensive open desert camping and exploration opportunities. Joshua Tree National Park is accessible approximately 45 miles west through the Palo Verde Valley. The Palms at River Edge operates year-round with dramatically different seasonal characters—winter's mild desert temperatures from November through April make it ideal for snowbirds and casual water recreation, while summer's extreme desert heat concentrates activity in the early morning and evening hours with midday retreat to the pool and air-conditioned facilities. The resort's full-service infrastructure and Colorado River access give it competitive advantages over simpler Ehrenberg riverside campgrounds, and the combination of gated security, resort amenities, and direct river frontage makes it one of the more complete water recreation destinations in the lower Colorado corridor. Reservations during the Quartzsite show season fill early.

Ridge Park RV and Campground

20 RV Sites

Ridge Park RV and Campground in Silver City, NM, offers 20 full-hookup RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service and back-in sites for rigs up to 50 feet. Sites come in three categories — back-in 30-amp, back-in 50-amp, and back-in water-and-electric 30-amp — with full-hookup sites carrying water, sewer, and electric and a picnic table. The campground is rated big rig friendly within its 50-foot limit. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a dump station, a fitness center, a recreation center, and both RV and boat storage cover the practical side, along with a community fire pit. Pets are welcome, with a dog park. Hiking and biking are the recreation, and the location is the reason: the campground works as a full-service base rather than a destination. Silver City sits in Grant County at the edge of the Gila Wilderness — the world's first congressionally designated wilderness — where the Mogollon Mountains' pine ridges and canyons meet a historic mining town with a serious arts scene. Rates and availability are on the booking page. Ask about monthly rates and storage if you're using the park as a Gila basecamp for a while.