Campground Review: Kit Carson RV Park, Flagstaff, AZ
Review Stats
| Bathrooms | 2/5 |
| Scenery | 4/5 |
| Store | none, but there's a gas station / convenience store just across the road/5 |
| Activities | 3/5 |
| Privacy | 3/5 |
| Noise | 3/5 |
| Hookups | full |
| WiFi | yes and it's fast, but only near the office |
| Fires | not allowed, grills provided |
| Alcohol | allowed |
| Sprint | 2 bars |
| AT&T | 5 bars |
Kit Carson sits just over 2 miles outside of Flagstaff’s Historic Downtown area, one of my favorite neighborhoods in all of the US, on Route 66 (now officially known as US Business 40). There are plenty of bike lanes and trails that you can take to expedite your motorless journey into town, and the bus comes only about half a mile away.
The park itself is a true campground, with plenty of giant Ponderosa Pines and dirt-lined roads. The showers are small, the toilets much more so, in fact I had to leave the door open just to sit down, but they’re clean enough, as far as RV parks go.
There is free WiFi in and around the office only, but there are three areas that you can sit down and plugin: an inside room with a small table that is open 24/7, a picnic table out front where you’re sure to be able to strike up plenty of conversation with the management and other parkgoers, and a little gazebo area with two tables in the back which was always empty and provided some privacy to get some work done or just browse in solitude.
The management here were very nice, the husband part of the duo had a great life story, having been a logger and machinist in the Idaho backcountry, boondocking in his RV for over 40 years before moving to Flagstaff to get his working hands out of the frigid weather. My biggest gripe about this park is that for some reason beyond the understanding of any mortal man, you aren’t allowed to ride your bicycle around the park. I mean, it’s practically a forest, and somehow they don’t allow two silent wheels to roll around the dirt paths. Ridiculous.
All in all though, given it’s proximity to downtown Flagstaff, I would definitely rate this park a winner.
barenakedfamily
14 Aug 2009 6:09 am
We somehow ended up in Black Barts outside of town… several times. Once for over a week as I worked a broken bolt out of the head. They have a pretty cool ‘singing waiter’ steak house that was worth experiencing.
Nathan
15 Aug 2009 11:05 am
Perhaps we’ll try that place out next time, it sounded like it had a cool vibe going for it in some of the reviews (usually if people write reviews like “Hated this park full of dirty long term residents and the restaurant was scary!” then I know it’ll be a good place). But the other one was closer to walk into town.
I always forget how you’re a jack-of-all-trades, fixing computers, fixing cars, fixing supper. Quite the sweet dad to have around.
I think the family gets tired of my duct-it-f*ck-it fixerupper attitude.