“the place of the little hills”
“Homolovi” is Hopi for “Place of the Little Hills” — the traditional name for Winslow, Arizona.
Homolovi State Park now serves as a center of research for the late migration period of the Hopi from the 1200s to the late 1300s. While archaeologists study the sites and confer with the Hopi to unravel the history of Homolovi, Arizona State Parks provides the opportunity for visitors to visit the sites and use park facilities including a visitor center and museum, various trails and a campground. Several covered picnic tables are located throughout the park. Pullouts provide the opportunity to observe wildlife in this park of over 4,000 acres at an elevation of 4,900 feet.
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Confirmed by 10 users | Last reported on April 16, 2024I really enjoyed staying overnight here. For me, being part of the open range seemed to spark the imagination of "yester-years". The park has two areas of Hopi Indian ruins to see. There are some walking trails perhaps a bit too soft sandy for trail bikes but they are allowed if you want. There is a park office where staff was very informative and helpful. Don't expect a lot of amenities other than electric, water, a clean campground with clean showers and restrooms. My wife would have preferred more of a traditional RV Park. I felt this was a worthwhile stop, especially if you enjoy learning or expanding Indian history.
Loved my stay here! Was a very peaceful, restful stop! It was not over crowded and the rangers were very friendly. I could not get the shower to lock, but I felt safe, which was important being a female traveling alone. Pet friendly and loved the open range. Made for great sunsets and awesome view of the stars!
Price was $7.00 per carload, but included in the camping fee if you stay at the park. Two ruins, each had over 1,000 rooms. Sounds incredible, because it is. I have never, ever seen so much pottery just laying around. Not much is left of the house, but plenty of pottery. Check their website for a great MP3 audio self tour for the Homolovi II site. Rangers were incredibly nice.
Entrance to the state park is included in the campground fee, so we found it very inexpensive to stay here. Sites had water and electricity or nothing. Rangers and camp host were very nice and helpful. Bathrooms appeared very nice. Not any other amenities in campground.
Excellent place to stay. You are basically camping on a desert plain. The sites are paved, with enough room for your rig and your toad. You can see for miles from your motor home window. We are self contained, so only needed electric. This was the perfect choice of campground for us. OTA television yielded 26 stations. Verizon signal is a very strong 4G...no problem getting on line.
Nightly Rate: $20.00
Days Stayed: 4
Site Number: 13
Cell Coverage Rating
Verizon 4G
Only stayed one night as it was just a stopover. Very friendly and helpful campground host when I was there in March 2016. I am not sure how many special programs the park runs, but when I was there, they had a local potter giving a pottery talk/demonstration outside the visitor's center. Good TV coverage with just antennae.
The sites are very good but little in the way of privacy other than spacing. When I was there, the campground was far from full so everyone had plenty of room.
You have to go to Winslow, AZ to just see Standing at the Corner. Also other historic sights in town.
Nightly Rate: -
Days Stayed: 1
Site Number: 40
Cell Coverage Rating
Verizon 4G
Signs everywhere indicate that rattlers can and will eat your children if you stay here, but we're headed out tomorrow after staying for the work week and, sadly, all of my kids are completely rattler venom-free.
On the other hand, a tornado warning came through a couple of days ago. We got a notification on our phones, I guess AT&T has some sort of GPS-powered warning system. There isn't much in the way of "shelter" here, like most campgrounds, but I called the ranger (who had no idea there was a tornado warning) and he said to hunker down in the showers until it all blew over. Which it did, with no tornado, but high winds shredded our awning up.
Anyway, I think it should be noted how wonderful the showers are here. They're personal, for one. You go into a very clean, tiled room and get to lock the door behind you. Always nice. And they're free. And hot. And not timed.
Not sure what the draw to Winslow is, other than the song, but there was a hotel there with very expensive, eclectic dishes and the Lady and I enjoyed that quite a bit. I guess they have the two largest pieces of the World Trade Center on display somewhere, too. Seemed like a strange thing to have, but no stranger than that bridge in Havasu...
At a mean age of 35, though, I do believe we were the youngest people (aside from our kids) within 100 miles of Winslow and Homolovi.
On a double positive, the sunsets here were epic and though you can see the lights of Winslow off in the distance, the skies were dark enough to catch a few shooters.
AT&T was only good for calls, but Verizon was fast enough to stream video and work my soul away.
Nightly Rate: $25.00
Days Stayed: 5
Site Number: 34
Cell Coverage Rating
Verizon 4G
This is a small And well-kept park. The site was level and had a great view stepping out of my rig. Nice walking paths and gorgeous sunsets
Nightly Rate: $35.00
Days Stayed: 1
Site Number: 28
Cell Coverage Rating
AT&T 4G
Homolovi SP was easy to find off I-40, just follow the signs. We went straight to the campground (CG) as the entry shack was not occupied. We should have gone to the Visitors Center and register first, which we did immediately after setting up, but we had reservations and our site number. The visitors center parking lot is fairly small, but we could have parked there with our 39’ 5th Wheel. We easily parked in pull through site 28 with 50 AMP & water. The pull throughs on the right side of the road in the 20 and 30 area all have the 50 & 30 AMP electric and water on the passenger/RV door side. The site was plenty long and we had no problem positioning and running our electric and water under the rig. Sites throughout the CG are nicely spaced apart. The Arizona State Park website provides excellent details on sites and camping here. We saw quite a few overnighters each day during our 3 nights stay over a weekend in June, and the park was never full. Suggest you bring ant spray as the little buggers headed up the stairs soon after arrival. Early one morning we walked the mile down to the Homolovi 1 ruins and were pleasantly surprised by a small herd of donkeys that posed for pictures but didn’t get too close. We also drove over to the Homolovi II ruins. Lots of history in this SP. We drove the short distance to Winslow where we were “Standing on a Corner” and did a supply run to Walmart and Safeway. We enjoyed our three nights stay in our spacious site with desert views.
Nightly Rate: $30.00
Days Stayed: 3
Site Number: 28
Cell Coverage Rating
Verizon 4G
This campground is painless to navigate. The cost was $25 with $5 on line reservation fee. It was easy to get to from I40 and the campground is paved in a figure 8 shape. All sites are paved but not all the pull-throughs and there are non-electric, 30A or 50A sites, with drinkable water. The dump is on the way out of the park, along with the trash disposal.
Campground has bathrooms and showers and looked clean and was reported to have hot water (we didn't use them).
There are no lights at the campground other than by the bathrooms which makes for nice night sky viewing. You can see I-40 from the campground in the distance but could not hear it.
The ranger station had nice exhibits about the ruins. The rangers were very friendly and gave us information about Winslow activities and Winslow is close enough for supplies. Nice proximity to Petrified Forest National Park.
Nightly Rate: $25.00
Days Stayed: 1
Site Number: 51
Cell Coverage Rating
Verizon 4G
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