Cave Creek Regional Park

Cave Creek Arizona

Our original plans to spend a week at the Grand Canyon South Rim were thwarted by nightime temps in the single digits. In a RV that means winterizing the plumbing and running the gas furnace full time. That coupled with limits on activities available, steered us to cancel our site and seek warmer temps within a reasonable drive to our next planned area.This turned out to be back in the Phoenix area at Cave Creek Regional Park. Cave Creek is one of several Regional Parks run by Maricopa County. It offers electric and water, nice bath houses, goergeous desert views , hiking trails and horse back riding. Being we were coming in at their peak season...snow birds and Spring Training Baseball followers, we felt extremely fortunate to get 5 out of 6 nights at regular sites and one in the overflow area (dry camping- no hook ups).

typical campsite at Cave Creek Regional Park - lots of space and great views

moon rise from our RV

one of many specie of cactus - Compass Cactus turns towns the sun

Saguaro - found only in the Sonoran Dessert. Holes are birds nests

Temps were perfect, the park staff friendly and the locale advantageous. We hiked, did maintenance, read books in the sunshine and rode horses.

it had been a while, but we managed to stay on for the entire ride!

a dozen of these drifted by as we were packing up to depart Cave Creek

One of the great things about camping is talking with others. The vast majority want to share their travel favorites and readily offer tips for things to see and places to visit (and occasionally things to avoid). We log this info into our trip list or if it is in the immediate area, go check it out. In other cases, to be revealed in the next post, we picked up on those travelling to our next site down the road!

hope you enjoyed and take care

Cooper and CJ