LTVA's are a real bargain in Southwest Arizona

Click the pics, they get bigger not better...but sometimes they don't even get bigger,  just like life, it's a crap-shoot.

All the pictures today Are just random landscape snapshots I take as I walk around.

It's a sunny but slightly breezy and chilly day today. It got up to 60°, which normally would've been quite comfortable, but because the humidity was up around 50%, it made 60° feel chilly.

I fell out of bed this morning just before sunrise... falling out of bed is easier than you might think in a truck camper; I poked my head out the door and found it to be raining lightly, which continued off and on till about lunchtime which gave me more than enough excuses to postpone doing laundry until tomorrow.

I moved over to the Plomosa Road area when I needed to go to Walmart the other day because it's a lot closer to the Parker Walmart than Dome Rock, where I was before, but after lunch, I've moved back to town to wake up with a different view in the morning. The closer you get to Quartzite, the more crowded the boondocking areas get, but there are still plenty of places to get off by yourself, which I enjoy.

Plumosa Road is my favorite place to stay, but it's five or six miles north of Quartzite. The closest free camping areas to Q are Scaddan Wash, Dome Rock, and Hi Jolly. I think Dome Rock has the prettiest views. Scaddan Wash is special to me because it's the first place I ever boondocked in Q, and Hi Jolly is the most crowded of the free boondocking areas.

The long-term visitor areas, LTVAs, are the closest to downtown but cost money to boondock there. The cost is very low, and most people feel it's well worth having water availability, remember, this is a desert, and water costs money: a place to dump their tanks and access to dumpsters for their trash. Best of all, there are several LTVAs, and you can use them all when you pay for one.

Because of the access to basic services that RVs need, like water and a dump station, I've always recommended the LTVAs to folks who are just learning how to boondock. For $40, you can stay there for two weeks learning what it will take to  boondock comfortably for a long period of time. A dump station, water faucet, and dumpsters nearby, will give you a real taste of boondocking since you will have to drive to them just like you have to do when you're actually boondocking.

The town of Quartzite is five minutes away with everything you would need to better equip your RV for boondocking. And maybe the most important thing is that you will be surrounded by real boondocking experts who have been living the long-term boondocking lifestyle for years. They know every trick in the book, and are more than happy to help you out with not only problems you've run into, but problems you don't even know you're going to run into.

In fact I doubt there's a place in the country where you will be surrounded by more RVers with more expertise in camping in general and boondocking in particular than in Quartzsite. And without a doubt it's the incredible boondocking opportunities that brings them all here.

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