Steve and Lynn

It's a free campground, it's level, has pretty sunsets, picnic tables but no shade, view of the lake (sorta). Nothing to get too excited about and there's no privacy to speak of but it's a very convenient location for seeing the sites around Page, AZ like Upper and Lower Antelope Slot Canyons, Lake Powell, Wahweap Marina, Horseshoe Bend and Glen Canyon Dam. There are only a few spots at the campground but each morning that we were there at least half would be vacant and then they'd fill up again each evening. We were there in early May in the middle of the week. I imagine weekends are tougher. As a back-up there's a WalMart in town that looked super-popular with RVs.

On the east side of the dam, there's a nice "beach" area where you can park and hike down the smooth rock to the water. Or from the campground you can walk up the road and hike into the hills to explore. Up that road there are a few more spots for camping before it turns into a 4-wheel drive road.

We took the tour of Upper Antelope Canyon. We just showed up at the gate about 8:30 and got on the 10:00 tour. It's cramped and crowded but still beautiful. $60 per person plus recommended tip. We did the Lower Canyon a few years ago.

There are a couple of gas stations in Page that have RV dump stations. We went to the Wahweap campground to dump but there was no public water there unless you use a campsite that's not occupied. At the campground office there are also pay showers and a laundromat.

This is dispersed camping on BLM land within the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. The surroundings and the sunsets were beautiful. We were there in mid May for 5 days. It was chilly at night but light jacket weather during the day even though it was snowing at the Grand Canyon North Rim just 40 miles from us “as the crow flies.”

As you turn off of highway 89A the road drops off at the edge so be careful if you have clearance issues like we do in our 30 ft class C. We dragged our motorcycle carrier a bit going both in and out. You'll go through a gate to the BLM road - be sure you close it behind you. We only drove about 150 yards inside the gate and parked in a dry wash that was fairly large and level. Even though we were close to the road, it was quiet and we were partially hidden from passing traffic. We had a decent phone signal with ATT.

About 150 yards further in there is a fork in the road. If you go right, there is another spot next to a fenced-off environmental site operated by Northern Arizona University. That spot was also large enough to accommodate us and had enough space to turn around. If you got off the highway with no problem then the road to that spot is a breeze. If you go left at the fork the road has some rough, rocky spots that would be best suited to a vehicle with good clearance. We saw a few 2-wheel drive vehicles inch their way through. We explored on our small motorcycle and had to walk the bike over a couple of rough spots. If you do drive further in you can camp right on the canyon's edge and the road seems to continue for quite a ways.

There are some really cool large balanced rocks in the area. Some are right across the highway but the most impressive ones are 2 miles west on Hwy 89A. Just past that is a restaurant and camp store.

The closest dump station and water is at Lee's Ferry about 12 miles to the east. Lee's Ferry is operated by the National Park Service so the dump is free if you have a National Park Pass. The dump is about a half mile past the Lee's Ferry Campground. There are lots of hikes to do in the park. There is a store, restaurant, laundromat and gas just outside the Lee's Ferry on Hwy 89A.

Campground located within the Padre Island National Seashore park. The campground is on the bayside of the island. It's quiet and was not crowded when we were there (early January 2023). It seems to be a popular campground for fishing and windsurfing. In fact, they have windsurfing rentals and beginner lessons if you're there at the right time of year. They also rent kayaks. There are no hook-ups or water. Generators are allowed from 6am-10pm and we did hear a couple while we were there. Mostly in the evenings. Sites are close together but we've never seen it very full and most everyone spaces themselves apart. We try to come to PINS each year and have camped on the beach several times. Bird Island Basin is a great alternative if you're worried about getting stuck in the sand, changing tides, or storms (we've experienced all three). It's located on the bayside with solid ground to park on and looks out over quiet waters. The turn for Bird Island Basin is maybe 1/2 mile after the National Park gate. There is a fee at the gate unless you have a National Park pass. Campsites are first come and cost $8 but if you have a senior or access pass they're $4. It's easy access and parking for any size rig. We had some phone service with T-Mobile and no booster but it came in and out. If you need a dump station, the Malaquite Campground within the National Park has one and is just 4 miles south from Bird Island Basin. We also saw people filling their fresh water tanks there but signs said "non-potable." Another mile south is the Malaquite Visitor Center where they have indoor and outdoor cold showers. In the park store you can pick up a free tide chart and ask about weather conditions.

Disclosure: We were there in Oct 2018 so things may have improved since then. When we were there it needed some attention but still, we loved the park.

It's a small, quiet campground in a beautiful wooded setting and the staff was very helpful and friendly. The sites are $15 per day plus $3 per person per day. They waive the $3 fee with a Texas State Park annual pass. They have hot showers, one each for men and women, and clean bathrooms. According to their website, you can borrow a GPS at the headquarters for geocaching in the park. Nearby is Caddo Mounds State Historic Site and along the highway are various historic markers. 12 miles away in Alto you'll find gas, groceries, and a family dollar.

The issue was that the asphalt pads at the campsites were in serious need of repair. We tried to level in probably 6 sites before settling on site #10. The other sites we tried would have been pretty difficult for us to level our 30' class C. The ones we didn't bother trying were either way too rough, too unlevel or too short. Most sites were probably better suited to RVs smaller than ours. We arrived without a reservation so lucky for us the campground was empty and we had our pick of sites. We were told most of their campers are hunters in the Fall.

We'd love this park to see more business and be able to improve the campsites. Either way, we'd gladly camp here again.

So happy they have cleaned up the RV park!
When we were here July 10, 2023 there was an abandoned trailer here that had been here for a while and another had some wheels off but looked occupied.
We've been here several times over the years and it was very disappointing to see. But we were back a month later and the old trailers were gone and the sites had been cleaned up. Good job, Littlefield!
Free electric, water and wastewater dump station. Some sites even have shade trees.
We stay here everytime we're passing through. We always spend some money in town and pick up some trash in the RV park as a thank you.

Beard's Lake has 5 water and electric sites with 20/30/50 amp connections and 3 dry sites next to the the lake with no hookups. All have a table and fire ring. The bathrooms were very clean and had flush toilets but the door locks didn't work. There's a boat ramp, three docks, a short nature walk and a kids playground. It's close to the road so there is traffic noise, especially the occasional logging trucks but it's not constant and it's still pretty peaceful. The posted rate is $13 whether you have electric and water or a site without but you get a 50% discount for the National Park Senior or Access Pass. The self-pay station is across the lake from the campsites by the boat launch. The sites are non-reservable. We were there in early October and there was only one other camper. The main activity here is fishing and it looked like a good spot for it so I assume it's a busier park in the warmer months. The sites are paved and all looked pretty level. We took a primitive site to be next to the lake and didn't need to level. There's at least partial shade at each site except two of the lakeside dry sites. The sites are suitable for any size RV and the roads are paved. ATT and Verizon had 1-2 bars and was enough to make calls and get on the internet. I didn't see public water other than at the campsite hook-ups. There were signs about alligators and we heard stories but unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) we didn't see any.

There's no wastewater dump here but there is one just outside Beard's Bluff Campground less than 2 miles to the East. There are actually 4 campgrounds here within 3 or 4 miles of each other. Beard's Bluff Campground is nice but was full, River Run East Campground, River Run West Campground which was closed when we were there, and Millwood State Park.

This was a nice find and hard to beat the price for hookups. The campground is open March 1st - October 31st.

We arrived at Lake Catherine State Park about 5:30 so the office was already closed. Late arrivals are supposed to go to the office by 10 am the next morning to register. The park was pretty full for a Tuesday but we found a site for overnight. Our site had electric and water but you'd need extra hose to actually hook up water. They also have full hook up sites with sewer. There are a lot of lakeside sites. Most have a view of a large factory across the lake - not terrible but at some you could hear the hum of the factory. Just 15 minutes from the campground is the Garvan Woodland Gardens which is well worth a visit. The grounds are beautiful. We walked maybe 2 miles round trip thru the gardens. They had Japanese gardens, fairy houses, a cool tree house and an amazing chapel. Check their website for fees and hours.
We hope to come back to Lake Catherine. Next time we'll make a reservation so we can stay longer.

We arrived on a Tuesday in early October and the campground was nearly full. We took site #24 which they call a "buddy" site. Two sites share a common space but each has its own water/electric hookups, table and fire ring. Most of the other sites are down the hill and next to the lake. You can fish from the shore or launch a boat from the ramp. There used to be a pier but it was damaged in a flood. Hopefully it will be rebuilt at some point. You can see it in the Google satellite view. Site #24, our site, is near the top of the hill away from the others and doesn't have direct access to the waters' edge but there is sort of a view of the lake through the trees.
The rate for most of the sites is $15 a night. There's one primitive site for $13 that's also off by itself with no water/electric and no view of the lake. There's a 50% discount for National Park Senior and Access card holders. The buddy site #24 is $21 and we were told the next day that it didn't qualify for the discount even though there was no mention of that at the self-pay station. They were very nice about it and didn't make us pay the extra for the first night but we didn't want to pay $21 so we checked out and moved down the road to Beard's Lake.
If you like privacy, the primitive and the buddy sites are off by themselves. Although, the buddy site would be less than private if you end up with a buddy. To be honest, I wasn't clear if your $21 paid for both sites of just one.
On the plus side, it's a short walk to a bathhouse that has two private bathrooms with hot showers. These showers don't get as much use as the ones down by the lakeside sites, and did I mention they're private? The lakeside showers are inside the men's and women's restrooms.
Down the hill, by the lakeside there are benches where you can watch the sunset over the lake and there's paved parking along the shore. There's a playground but it had some damage and was roped off when we were there. At the top of the hill, near the pay station is a bird-watching deck. Across the road from the campground entrance, is the dump station. We didn't try our phones at the lakeside but up on the hill at our site we had 2 bars of ATT and Verizon - enough to watch Netflix.
The campground and the dump station are open March 1st - October 31st. This is a really nice campground but maybe don't show up without reservations like we did if you have a preference to be near the water. We definitely would have stayed several days if sites had been available and it was easy to see why they weren’t.

This campground is was small and quiet. There is a lot more day use area than camping area and the main attraction seems to be fishing. The campground is well kept and clean like the other Army Corps campgrounds we've been to. All the sites have water and electric and the fee is $19 or $9.50 with the National Park Annual Pass. They were still learning their new reservation system with Recreation.gov and I suspect the 50% discount for the standard National Park Annual Pass may go away since we've not had luck using it for discounts with Recreation.gov in the past. They do accept the National Park Senior and Access passes for the discount.
The restroom in the campground was closed and apparently due to be replaced at some time but there are flush toilets near the day use area not too far away. There's also a nice shower house and restroom at the other end of the park. It's a little less than 1 mile from the campground. It was clean and the showers were plenty warm but be warned, the mosquitoes were waiting for us when we came out of the shower. The mosquitoes were pretty bad here. May just be the time of year but they were large and hungry. At one point I thought I had a fire ant on my foot. Nope. Just an enormous mosquito.
All the sites are paved, most had some shade, and all looked pretty level and could accommodate large rigs. Each site has a covered table, a fire ring and a stand up grill and all sites have some view of the lake - some on two sides. There's a playground, a boat ramp and a dump station. Both Verizon and ATT had a couple of bars.
We really like it here and had it not been for the mosquitoes, we would have stayed longer.

The parking lot at Bass Pro is noisy. It's directly under an overpass and the wompa wompa wompa of big trucks passing overhead continued all night. The lot is fairly level and there is good ATT and Verizon service being so close to downtown Memphis. Access to and from the parking lot from I-40 couldn't be much easier. There didn't seem to be any special RV parking designated or stripped. You can sorta park in shade of the overhead interstate but you might not be in shade an hour later.
We'd heard about the Bass Pro Shop pyramid and felt like we needed to see it for ourselves. I have to say, I was a little disappointed in the store itself. We had a few things on our list we were ready to buy but found their camping section to be pretty average or below. I realize they're all about fishing and hunting, but still. However, if you're just going to see the spectacle, it's pretty impressive. First and second floors have shopping but also a pond with some really large catfish and another with alligator gars. Oh, and there are actual alligators, too. Of course, they have all the taxidermy animals we've come to expect at these kinds of stores. Above the showroom floor, you can get a hotel room with a balcony that faces into the store. There's an elevator to an outside observation deck ($10 per person), an aquarium that's large enough that a scuba diver hand feeds the fish while giving a presentation to the crowd twice a day, and there's a restaurant.
When you turn onto Bass Pro Drive, you'll pass a visitor center that's just a couple of blocks before the parking lot. You're also within a 1/2 mile from downtown Memphis and lots of options for food, shopping or just walking. If you don't want to walk, there are electric stand-up scooters everywhere that you can rent for $1 plus 15 cents per minute.
We walked about 1.5 miles to the somewhat famous Central BBQ. Nearby is the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King was assassinated. The Lorraine is now a museum and has been preserved much the way it was on that day. In the parking lot there are several video kiosks that describe events leading up to that day. There's a large wreath on the balcony marking the spot where Martin Luther King was standing. It was chilling, to say the least, to be standing in the parking lot in front of that balcony.
Bottom line: Bass Pro Shops was a good stop for overnight even with the noise. I highly recommend ear plugs even though that really wasn't enough.