Let me introduce you to the home I have had for a month, Krazy K RV Park. This is the type of place that truly reflects the statement,” I came for a day and stayed for a week…a month, …a year, all of the above! It’s a small RV Park and it has everything you would want , but on a smaller scale. 😉

One downside, is that it is close to interstate I-17. A bit off on the other side of that cement wall, is interstate 17. Yes, you always hear the noise from the interstate but it’s just humming in the background. It is much better than being by a busy intersection, where you have cars, trucks, motorcycles stopping and starting out and making a lot of racket!

Coming up from Phoenix, the RV Park is only 3 MI from Montezuma Castle . You take the exit on I-17 to Montezuma Castle and then you just swing back along the road to get here. It has a very cute and unpretentious check in office. It is family run and began in the 1970s. They have photos in the office that show it at that time it began. It was just plain, open, hard desert ground. No trees, nothing.

These many years later, the tree cover is beautiful.

There are a lot of RV sites around Camp Verde but most of them are out in the open. Even the ones that called themselves “resorts.” When I drove here from Dead Horse Ranch State Park, in Cottonwood, which is about 20 miles west of here, this was the only RV Park that had an opening and that was not sky high in price. And I was able to stay longer and longer and explore Sedona! Once March hit, however, it’s a different story. It is now booked solid. Even their overflow sites are booked up! Spring break for one thing, and just more people coming into the area now that the weather is better. Wimps! 😂

I had full hookups here. That means I had water, sewer, and 30 amp electric. At most of the state parks, you only get water and electricity, which is practical for them. The cost here was $30 a night, cheaper than at the State Park! In addition they have a weekly rate so that was even cheaper. They do have year round sites here as well. I spoke to people who have come here, settled here and have been here for 15 years! Those sites are kept separate from the seasonals, and dailys like mine. However, the daily/seasonal sites are just as nice and that’s a big plus. That’s not always true in a lot of these RV parks. And of course the monthly rate is cheaper, but then you pay your electricity which is only fair. I can see why people come here to stay. I haven’t met him yet, because he kind of stays to himself, but there is a man here by himself who is a farmer from Wisconsin. He comes for the whole winter and then goes back to start his fields in Spring. Sounds like a plan to me!

Let me Show you Around 🙂

THE POOL

I did go in the hot tub after I had broken my wrist and it was splinted. I kept it up on the side, had it wrapped in plastic and sat on the highest step. I found out if I put the Jets on though it was harder to sit as they floated me away ! 😂 so I always stayed by the railing. And I do not use swimsuits. Just a shirt and shorts! Felt so good in there! ☺️

THE LAUNDRY.

I love this laundry! It’s regular agitation washers, which mean they fill up with water, not the high efficiency washers!. $1.50 per load and they are big loads. The dryers are a nice size, not huge, $1.50 for an hour, and dry well. I am one happy camper 😃

EXERCISE ANYONE?

I kept extending my stay, as the weather would fluctuate, and I needed to wait for good days to hike. Eventually, there were no other sites available, but they did allow me to go into overflow. Now overflow in most parks, usually means dry camping, No electricity, no sewer and you use your water onboard. You can usually only stay there for a day or two between reservations until your site opens up. Their overflow offers water and electric 👍 that’s all I need! And it is poolside! 😃 Are you kidding me? A view over the wall and a view into the pool. Very cool! I made sure my tanks were empty and then I moved up there.

We had wonderful , nice days, temperature in the 60s and sunny and then a cold front moved through. As the clouds kept moving over, we had sprinkles of rain and then snow and then nothing but cool weather. And then it would repeat.

The weather here is all about elevation as I mentioned before. Phoenix is around an altitude of 1100 ft, Camp Verde is around 3,000 ft, Sedona is around 3500 ft and of course then Flagstaff is 7000. While ours was melting on the ground, Flagstaff got 18 in of snow! A couple pulled in behind me, with slushy snow all up inside their fenders and wheel wells. They had driven over Flagstaff and through it all to here. They commented that about 20 minutes up I-17, from where we were it was still snowing heavily and nearly a whiteout. Sometimes that 5 to 600 ft of elevation makes a big difference!!

One of the things I enjoyed at my spot was the beautiful sunsets I could see over the mountains to my West. Just the clouds themselves were so fascinating. They do change their shape so much more when they are over the mountains. There was not a night unless it was totally overcast, that the sunset did not put on some kind of show

This was another night with beautiful orange reflections on the scattered clouds. Unfortunately, as I’m standing on my RV steps to get this picture, I moved to go down a step, tripped, fell and that’s when I broke my wrist!! 😕 The rest is history.

I have had a lot of help from people here throughout all of this! So if this needed to happen, I was in the best place for it. I’ve been trying to get this blog out as I keep losing it when I try to publish it. So here goes and I hope you get to see it!!

stay tuned for an update.