In this video, we make it out of some great BLM land just west of Las Vegas and head towards the Grand Canyon – stopping at some Arizona Trust Land along the way and checking out some of the hikes!
⛺🗺️📌Our Camping Locations
We’re sharing our camping and other locations on two sites:
✅iOverlander – boondocking sites as well as dump stations, water, laundry etc.
✅Campendium – mainly established campgrounds
We also have a currently free map on Google that has all of the places where we’ve stayed along with the related video and links to more detailed reviews on iOverlander , Campendium and Google Maps.
Arizona Trust Land east of Kingman, AZ
This is Arizona Land Trust so make sure to get your yearly permit. An individual yearly permit is $15, and a family is $20 and there’s TONS of land out there!
Nice site with a beautiful view. Obviously, cows are present which also means cow pies. 🙂 Was fun to do a short walk through the wash behind the site. Trees blocked the road and it was pretty quiet when we stayed.
There is a pulloff right off the road, but we parked behind just a bit. Little traffic and noise.
Think we had 2 bars of AT&T and Verizon.
Mather Campground (Grand Canyon, AZ)
Mather Campground is open year-round and has 327 campsites. But don’t let that lull you into thinking you’ll get an easy campsite. The longest stay we could find was 4 nights.
The campground is windy and is generally recommended for RVs less than 30 feet. If you’re close to that 30 feet mark it sounded like they had maybe 5 sites that could fit a 30 ft travel trailer.
We stayed for 4 nights There were limited sites available but that may have been more to do with the fact that some areas weren’t plowed yet. We came about a week after their 20+” of snow. The sites were plowed but we had to walk through knee-high areas of snow to get around your rig. We enjoyed it, though!
We had a pullout site which I thought would be good, but be aware of trees being very close to the camper. We had to use leveling blocks, but we usually do at most parks. The roads in the campground are windy so smaller campers are a must!
We immediately saw elk grazing around the campsites, which was fantastic! We also saw the ginormous aggressive ravens so don’t leave garbage or any food-related items out!
None of the sites in Mather campground have electrical connections, so be aware of that. With the beauty of the trees also comes the challenge to use solar. They do have some limited generator hours in some loops. We ended up having to use our generator for a few hours since we were hit with multiple days of rain. I did try to limit as much as possible since the majority of the folks around us were tent campers.
We walked to the shuttle area on the main campground road since the trail was still snow-covered. The buses were easy to figure out but were JAM PACKED at the visitor center, so be aware.
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