Staying At The Tombstone Dry Camping RV Park

If you’re looking for a spot to stay at to explore the small western tourist town of Tombstone, Arizona you can’t get much closer than the Tombstone Dry Camping RV Park.

This RV park is nothing more than a large gravel and dirt parking lot and, as the name implies, is completely dry camping. There are no hook-ups, water, trashcans, firepits, picnic tables or toilets available at this location. The lot is level and large enough to accommodate any size vehicle.

We had really good cell service here with both AT&T and Verizon. I’ve read people had good service with T-Mobile as well, but we don’t have that provider to confirm. The lot was clean and well maintained. I don’t think there is a stay limit. As long as you’re paying you can probably stay for a while.

Leashed pets are welcome as well so you can bring your furry friends along. The town of tombstone is very pet friendly also. If you’re running solar you will get all the power your system can handle here, because there are no trees around to block the sun.

It cost $10 a night to stay here and no reservations are required. A self pay station is located at the entrance to the parking lot. It’s basically just a box on a rock you put your money and information slip in. It’s cash only also so be prepared for that.

Their website says you can make reservations, but they charge an extra fee which, if I read correctly, was another $10. Truthfully unless it’s a rodeo weekend I don’t believe reservations are necessary. Plus, there are no designated sites you just pull in and park somewhere so I don’t know how reservations would work.

What you’re truly paying for is the convenience to all the attractions in the historic town of Tombstone. You are literally a three minute walk from the main street of the town where most of the attractions are located. Let me tell you that Tombstone is a fun little town with a lot to do.

We checked out the O.K. Corral, Old Tombstone Western Theme Park and the Gunfighter Hall of Fame during our visit. We took a trolley tour, played some mini-golf and visited a lot of shops. There’s plenty of places to eat at as well. We had a lot of fun in our two days there.

The campground host was very friendly and checked on us a couple times during our visit.

On the second night it got very, very cold and everyone in their hard sided trailers were worried we might freeze in our little pop-up lol. After a year and a half of traveling full-time in our pop-up camper we have figured out all the tricks to keeping warm.

There is a small rodeo located right beside the campground that runs one weekend a month and it happened to be coming on the weekend we stayed. We were there on a Monday and Tuesday, but the lot was already filling up in anticipation of the event. This meant a lot more campers and they all seemed to be running their generators.

There’s a reason we boondock and dry camp on BLM land and National Forests a majority of the time and that’s for the peace and quiet. We don’t like crowded places and hate the sound of generators.

On our last night a trailer pulled up beside us, unhitched and parked their truck a total of 4 feet away from us. They then proceeded to run their 4500 open frame generator in the bed of their truck till 10 pm at night and started it up again at 6 am. Needless to say I was not a happy camper.

Besides that last night with the generator this really was a nice place to stay. The majority of the time it was quiet, and people were nice and chatted with us as we took the dog for walks.

Also, you really just can’t beat the convenience to Tombstone. We generally don’t pay for camps, but this place was cheap and right in town so we couldn’t pass it up.

I also apologize for having absolutely no pictures of this place. We just totally forgot till we were hooking up to leave. There truly was nothing to see though just a giant parking lot with lots of campers parked in it.