20 Reasons Why RVers Love Quartzsite, Arizona

Above, camping in Quartzsite in 2021. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Since I moved to New Mexico and joined the Lost Dutchman Chapter of E Clampus Vitus, I have dry camped with the group in Quartzsite, Arizona three times.

Each time, I found the area to be scenic, restful and interesting history. 

RV Travel has posted an article on 20 reasons why so many RVers love Quartzsite.

They begin with:

For some RVers, Quartzsite is a must-stop each winter. For others, it’s one stop, then never again. Ask RVers who have been there what they think of the place: half will love it, half will say “not my thing!”

For most of the year, Quartzsite is a quiet, dusty (very) desert town along Interstate 10 and U.S. 95 north of Yuma. Its summer temperatures often rival those of sizzling Death Valley — no place for sissies.

In winter, it transforms into one of the most unusual seasonal communities in North America, drawing tens of thousands of visitors, most of them RVers who squat for free or nearly free on the vast Bureau of Management (BLM) lands that surround the town proper.

To read more, go here.