Midland LTVA

3rd year down here. Dump station on site. Water in town, I go to Culligan and fill my rig, propane and gas in Ehrenberg, just a short drive across the Colorado river. Blythe has grocery stores and Dollar stores. Great sunsets and sunrises. It has been very dry and windy this winter but at least a lot warmer than where I'm from.
Nice to see green fields on the drive into town and in January they bring in the sheep for lambing time. Great to see the babies jumping around.
All in all a good place to Snowbird for the winter.

This is our second year visiting Midland, part of the BLM LTVA areas ($180, valid Sept 15-April 15) and use these areas off and on while in CA/AZ for the winter months. Midland offers a huge area to spread out (NEVER crowded in all the times we’ve been here), a pump out, and trash disposal. NO water so come prepared. Excellent Verizon (we could stream with our mifi and antenna). Lots of areas to walk, bike, although the landscape is pretty barren. Hummingbirds galore. Small town of Blythe 8 miles away, but wait to fuel up (diesel for us) in AZ (30 miles away) as prices much cheaper there. There’s an Albertsons in Blythe. Good place for solar panels as we can always count on sun here. Pleasant 70’s day/40’s nights in late November/early December. Nice camp host. Will definitely be back a few times this season.

So this is one of 8 long term Rv sites in the area where you can stay for a small fee. We liked it here even though it was hot for this time of year (upper 80s lower 90s end of Oct early Nov). It was cool in the shade (of our RV) and had some breeze that made it refreshing at times. I didn’t give it full stars because water is not easily available. So make sure you come fully watered up... we weren’t or we would have stayed longer. Just a note, don’t resupply food at the Albertsons in town, the food is easily 20% higher.

We spent the Winter here; 76 days to be exact. We chose this LTVA out of all the others because it’s the least busy. When we arrived in Dec it was at about 15% occupancy and remained this way for weeks. It started to pick up at the beginning of February. Plenty of space for everyone around. Nobody ever encroached on our spot and overall it was really quiet the entire time.

It used to be popular here, Byron tells me. Byron is the host and is just the sweetest fella around. But when the water dried up, people stopped coming. You have to get it from Ehrinburg a solid 30 minutes away at the Laundromat Mall (weird name) for $2.

We used BCM Mail and Ship in Quartszite for mail. We redecorated our rig for a Winter project and never ran into issues getting our packages from any carrier.

There’s a dump on site.

Internet was never an issue. Was able to work and stream.

Blythe is 15 minutes away and has everything you need (except water). It’s not the prettiest town, in fact its a bit run down. But not the “I don’t feel safe” type of run down. The Albertsons is really the only thing that makes the city feel somewhat “clean”. Growth in Blyth doesn’t come because of the farmers, at least that’s what we overheard in the Ace Hardware in town. They used to have a Walmart, or tried, but there’s a lot of agriculture here and they just don’t want big business’ like that in town.

There’s absolutely nothing to do anywhere around here. Some will love that. Some will hate it. For spending the Winter, we would definitely return.

We just spent 9 days at Midland LVTA. We bought a 2 week permit for $40. The location was easy to find and access. We camped with a 36' Fifth Wheel. The site has trash dumpsters, and a RV dump station, but no water.

What I liked most was all the room! Plenty of room to find a spot well away from other campers. Access to the site was easy and there were so many sites to choose from. Most of the location is flat and level.

It is a very quiet location and we enjoyed the peace. Blythe was only a few minutes away, and has most of the amenities of a small town. And you're close enough to Arizona to get the cheaper gas.

Also, we found the site to be very clean.

A nice surprise!

We were staying at Tyson Wash LTVA BLM area just south of Quartzsite AZ and were in the town of Blythe CA on New Years eve to pick up a few supplies.

We decided to take a look at Midland LTVA area because Tyson Wash was getting busy and busier every day.

As mentioned in the Campendium overview of the area, the fee is $40 for 14 days, or $180 for Sept 15 to April 15th.

The nice part about the fee is that once you pay the fee for the six month period, you are entitled to camp at any of the 7 BLM LTVA locations; Hot Spring, Tamarisk, Pilot Knob, Mule Mountain, Midland, La Posa, and Imperial, they are all included in the same fee.

Midland LTVA is mostly flat and level. Very easy access, supports any size rig, nice mountain views, beautiful sunrises and sunsets. It is now early January, probably the height of snowbird season, and I'd estimate there are only 20 RV units here. I suspect Midland LTVA could support 100 or more RV units.

The only downside, on weekdays there are many trucks going up and down Midland Road to a waste management site, you can only 'just' hear them, but there is a bit of noise for the campers who are looking for total peace and quiet.

There are trash bins on site, a dumping station (with NO water) and a landline pay phone. The camp host provides a list of locations where fresh water is available.

Lots of trails for ATVs and hiking. The town of Blythe is only 10 minutes away and has most of the common needs. Several grocery stores, a hardware store, restaurants (both fast food and sit down types) gas stations, Dollar General, Tire stores and laundry facilities. However, I'd recommend you take the short drive to AZ for gas, you will save $1.00 per gallon.

Highly recommend Midland LTVA BLM!