Mark Laffin

We stayed here 2 nights. Very pleased. Brand new park; opened July 22, 2022. Gravel sites that are level and easy to get into and out of. Friendly office staff.

I’m sure they are still getting things in order. Need a folding table, waste basket, and hanger rack in the laundry room. The water spigot was below grade in a small round irrigation box. Very difficult to access the threads on the spigot. There is no room to install a pressure regulator on the spigot; you need a short length of hose. Picnic tables at each site would be a welcome addition. 50/30/20 power at each site. Sewer connection was easy to get to.

Open skies for Starlink use.

Road noise from adjacent high is noticeable.

Avery’s BBQ is right down the road; excellent food.

The park is relatively new. The clubhouse is clean and spacious. The bathrooms/showers and laundry are modern and relatively clean. The campsites are asphalt and reasonably level, and there are both pull-throughs and back-ins. However, most everything is asphalt and there are a few small trees. No picnic tables or other site amenities. There is a 3-foot wide strip of astroturf at each site. It’s a great place for an overnight but, I can’t imagine why anyone would spend the summer or an extended time here. There’s virtually nothing to do in Ontario or Fruitland across the river (fuel is much cheaper in Fruitland).

It’s a large gravel lot behind a gas station with 6 full hookup sites. That’s it. No picnic tables or shelters of any kind. There is a small unheated building with 2 bathrooms/showers and a washer and dryer ($1.50 each). There’s also a separate dump station. The infrastructure isn’t well maintained but, seems to work. The gas station and RV park are owned by the Baker Ranch. Reservations and cleaning are handled by the Stargazer Inn (not affiliated with Baker Ranch) a couple blocks down the street. The park is very close to Great Basin National Park, 10 minutes away. Very little road noise. Easy in and out. Can handle very large rigs.

Primitive dispersed campsites with lots of separation. There is a pit toilet and trash receptacles at the Grandview Lookout Tower. 14-day maximum stay; no permits required. Lots of trees for shade. Most sites are relatively level. Very dark and quiet at night. Easy access to Grand Canyon NP. Also very close to a cell tower; great signal.

We did an overnight here on our journey from Phoenix to Seattle. Very friendly and helpful staff. Campground and facilities were clean and well maintained. The only knock is the road noise from the adjacent highway; lots of noise that continues late into the night.

We stayed here one night on our way back home. We clearly stated that we had a 34-foot TT with a 19-foot tow vehicle and we needed 55 linear feet for our full rig (we have a Hensley hitch that required the TV and TT to be nearly perfectly aligned front to back to hook up). The office put us in site 8...a 36-foot concrete pad with just the road in front of the pad to maneuver in. It was a VERY tight fit with lots of jockeying the rig to get into the sight. There are only a very small number of siite that can handle "big rigs" and long TV/TT combinations and they book up pretty far in advance.

The location is wonderful...very close to bike trails, a water park, amusements and Presquile Island state park. The park is great for walking or biking, particularly in the "off season." Sara's is a very busy campground with few vacancies. if you have a smaller rig, you should be fine. If you have a larger rig, check and double-check with the office when making the reservation that you will have enough room to get into and out of the site. The roads through the park are narrow and the curves are a bit sharp.

There is a Walmart, grocery store (Wegmans) and other conveniences nearby.

We would stay here again but, only if we can get a site that enables us to get our rig in and out safely.

Stayed here 3 nights. It’s a huge 500 site RV park on the Apache Reservation in the pine forest south of Pinetop-Lakeside at 7,200 feet. The layout is confusing and the roads are not well marked. The park infrastructure is not well maintained. Site numbers are hard to find. Utility pedestals are in disrepair. The roads of the park are volcanic cinders, not gravel. Most of the sites are occupied by long-term campers. I doubt that we will return.

The campground is now called Chatham Lakes Campground; it was recently purchased and the new owner changed the name. It is a large campground with many sites centered around a number of small lakes. There is a large number of seasonal campers here. We stayed here for an overnight on our way south to our Florida winter camp. The camp officially closed on Oct 15 but, the camp host was kind enough to let us stay the night since the campground is not winterized yet.

The camp host was very kind and friendly. She even came over with her trimmers and cut back some of the brush and poison ivy in the campsite she placed us in. There were many open sites that were in much bette shape; not sure why she chose site 109 for us. The campground is easy to find using Google Maps. Garmin stubbornly retains the old Honey Do campground name, despite the best efforts of the new owner to get Garmin to update its database. The location is several miles from the interstate highway with paved roads in between.

The site was/is in poor shape. Another long term camper had moved out of the site and the camp staff had not cut back the leftover brush and weeds. There was poison ivy growing along the boundary between the gravel trailer pad and the concrete picnic table pad. The host trimmed back the worst of it.

The water in the bathhouse shower stalls and sinks has a distinct order of rotten eggs, or hydrogen sulfide. It is an unpleasant smell and needs to be addressed. The new owner and his crew are working on adding sites to the campground. Perhaps they should turn their attention to fixing their water problems first and cleaning up their existing sites so they are at least free of large weeds and poison ivy.

State Route 83 is adjacent to the park and road noise is noticeable most of the time.

I would stay here again in a pinch but, I would certainly look for another campground in the area first. The site quality and the smelly water were the biggest issues I had with the campground.

The campground recently changed owners and is now called the Luna Sands Resort. The campground is now owned by Travel Resorts of America. Campgrounds are increasingly changing their names to “resorts” in hopes of attracting a more upscale and higher paying clientele. Luna Sands is a great example of this trend. The campground appears to have been a KOA at one time (the KOA logo is still on the bottom of the pool), then became the Clark Family Campground, and is now Luna Sands Resort. There is nothing resort-like about this campground. We’ve stayed in RV resorts that are more closely aligned with the resort description...paved roads, paved or hard-packed gravel sites that are level, well-maintained buildings and grounds, evidence of recent and continuous improvements and infrastructure investments. Luna Sands is none of these. It’s an old campground that hasn’t seen much investment in the infrastructure or grounds in quite some time. There are fallen trees from Hurricane Irma that have not been cleaned up. There are derelict trailers and motor homes sitting on sites in the seasonal/permanent tenant areas. The bottom of the pool is dirty, showing footprints where people have previously walked. The roads and sites are mostly sand, not gravel. The concrete patios are old and crumbling. The roads are narrow with trees very close to the shoulders.

There is quite a bit of road noise and aircraft noise that is noticeable during the day...things quieted down at night. The campground is very dark at night, requiring a lot of concentration when driving on the roads after dark.

$50/night for a FHU site is pricey considering the state of the place...$25-30 would be a more reasonable price. The nearby state parks offer more value for the price if you can get a site (they were full when we booked our reservation).

We made the mistake of going into the Welcome Center and were ambushed by a Travel Resorts salesperson pitching memberships in their company ranging from $8,000 to $15,000 (up front). She was using Luna Sands as a great exmple of the quality and amenities offered in their other resorts...she has a very tough sales job if her prospective buyers have been in a true RV resort.

The staff was friendly and helpful. The public restrooms/showers were clean and orderly. Most of the picnic tables had a fresh coat of paint on them.

As an overnight stay, the campground is fine. However, it is not a place I would spend a week or an extended period at.

We arrived to learn that the water filtration system for the potable water serving the park had failed several days earlier. It would have been nice to have been contacted before driving 3 hours to this remote RV park and given the option of cancelling our stay. We had to track down the owner/camp host to check-in, even though the office “open” sign was illuminated. Ringing the video doorbell, as instructed on a sign, did not raise anyone. The owner advised us of the water problem and offered us a gallon jug of bottled water. We went to our site since we were in a remote part of CA with few options. The site was nice enough but, it was very difficult to get the rig level front-to-back because of site sloped somewhat steeply down front to back. The 30A receptacle was worn out. We did not connect to the park water system while we discussed our options. We used the park WiFi to contact the only other nearby park and were able to secure a reservation there (it was a pretty poor park). I went into the men’s restroom/shower room and found feces on the floor near a toilet that was being repaired. The floor was wet and it stunk in there. We broke camp and headed to the other nearby park. The owner agreed to refund our 2-night campsite fee.