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| - Certainly one of the best parks in the NE Phoenix Metropolitan area. On the Fort McDowell Indian reservation. I was lucky enough to get one of the sites along the back of the property, which in my opinion are the best. All the sites are asphalt, and mine proved to be fairly level. I arrived here on October 1st and stayed for 3 months. November and December weather was delightful, but October was still pretty damn hot, and sitting on a black asphalt site made it seem even hotter. I can't even imagine staying here in the hot part of the year (about 8 months). The wifi was decent, better than most parks. They just recently upgraded it. Honestly, in my experience, the wifi in most parks is usually not very good anyway.
Things I really liked:
Lots of wildlife show up on park grounds, especially along the back. I saw Javelinas, wild horses, coyotes, road runners, and yes, skunks. Lots of hummingbirds as well. The views of the Four Peaks mountain range to the North is awesome.
Grounds are well kept. Most of the help is very nice (read on).
Things I didn't like:
1) Don't bend the rules. The manager of this park can be very nice, but if you make a mistake, or don't follow the rules to the letter, you'll soon find out about it. Example 1 - a friend of mine was rudely threatened with immediate eviction because he let his very friendly dog off leash for just a few minutes. Example 2 - I put up a pop up tent to park my car under in the heat of October, and was told I could not do that, because "if everyone did that, it would begin to look like a mobile home park". Funny, I must have seen a dozen other tents used for similar or other purposes, and yet I was singled out as a violator, and asked to take it down.
Truth is, I find this unfriendly attitude pretty common in many RV parks, especially ones that are busy or popular. The people who manage or work there take their jobs very seriously, often too seriously, and seem to forget that as paying customers, we should be treated more kindly, or with more respect. It seems to me their opinion is, if you don't like it, you can leave, and we'll fill your spot again with no problem.
2) You can't wash your own rig in this park, even if you pay for the extra water. Only their vendors can wash your rigs, and it's not cheap. I was quoted $130 for my 40' motor home, not including the roof. This particular vendor does a lot of work in the park, and his rig is very noisy, so often the serenity of the day is broken by loud compressors, and spray guns. I did NOT appreciate that at all.
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