Holbrook - Petrified Forest KOA Journey

Sites are quite tight. On driver side enough for a slide out. On passenger side there is room for the picnic table and space to walk around it but very close to next site. All sites appear to be pull through and more or less level. My total length is about 48’( truck and travel trailer) and the front of my truck stuck out into the drive road. I could not stay connected and stay out of the road.
This location is very convenient for access to national park entrance which is down 17 miles of Very straight road! I stayed on a Wednesday night near end of march and the campground filled up! Glad I called for a reservation. Laundry was $2.00 a load. Voltage was a little higher (125v) than I’ve seen elsewhere. Internet was painfully slow, less than 1Mbps. Verizon flips back and forth between 5g and lte.
This location is good for overnight if you have to. Your neighbors will make the decision for you if it was worth the extra cost, if they are noisy.

Our trip has been plagued by bad weather. Our plan was to stay in Flagstaff and do some sightseeing. A huge snowstorm was heading to Flagstaff, so we changed plans and switched to Holbrook. Staff was friendly, park very clean and they have the nicest store. This part of the country is sparse, so is the campground is the same. Not a lot of foliage. We spent an afternoon at the Petrified Forest NP. It's very close to the campground. We also went to see the corner at Winslow. Not much to see besides the corner and my husband got a $250 ticket for handing me his cell phone. Beware. Because of the time of year, the pool and the weekend pancake breakfasts weren't happening. We appreciated the fenced in dog area and another little stretch for the dogs that's not fenced. Easy on/easy off; very convenient.

We unfortunately stayed here Christmas week. First, the girl who checked us in obviously did not want to be there. Her attitude was very poor. Second, the sites are VERY unlevel. There's no excuse for this since they have a running tractor and piles of gravel but they did not have any of the sites fixed. Third, this park does NOT CARE about our very expensive rigs. There were some kids playing baseball in the road next to our rig and several others. We called the office and they said they would take care of it. We were concerned about everyone's RV, including our own, being possibly damaged by these kids playing baseball. They were all newer expensive RV's. Nothing was done and many expensive rigs could have been damaged! Even after dark the kids kept playing and we kept calling the office, which was open, but they refused to answer the phone again. Fourth, they told us numerous times our site was 100 feet long which was wrong! It was no more than 60 feet. It was enough for us but nowhere close to what they advertised and what we paid for. Never staying there again! They do NOT care about you or your RV, only your money! There are better choices out there!

We arrived well past dark. The after hours check-in process was very easy. We picked a spot and found wrote down our CC info on an envelope and dropped it inside the mailbox slot. Our spot was basically just a gravel parking lot, separated by a picnic table. It worked for an overnight stay, but not much to look at if planning to stay awhile.

Stayed 2 nights to visit Petrified Forest NP. Sites are extremely small. We had to move the picnic table that was just left in the middle of our site just to pull in. The site just barely fit a 30’ trailer. Had to park tv sideways and partly in the road just to clear. Little to no shade. Bathrooms were not cleaned and only 1 of the three showers in the women’s bathroom worked. Plus side was a great playground for the kids and a large pool. Not having shade also resulted in being able to watch an amazing monsoon storm roll through with lightning everywhere. Got plenty of pics.