Cattle Tank Road

Campsites are located just off of the narrow dirt road. Established campsites along the road are limited, but the setting is gorgeous. A few campsites are pretty large. Beautiful sunsets in a cactus garden setting. You'll be surrounded by large saguaros and lots of chollas (careful for those). Nights are very dark and quiet with the sounds of coyotes. It's also open range, so you may see cattle. You may also hear gunshots periodically since there are designated shooting areas further west against the hillside.

Cell signal was adequate with a booster. We were able to work and stream on 4G LTE with both Verizon and T-Mobile.

I would not recommend this spot for large RVs. There's a loop near the entrance that can accommodate a couple large rigs that can't venture down the road. Smaller RVs should not have a problem if you don't mind a little desert pin striping. Don't expect an easy turn around unless you get into a campsite. So best to scope it out first. The road narrows quickly and gets rutted in areas. There are also a couple campsites on the other side of the road.

The road into Cattle Tank is well marked but once you turn on the gravel, it narrows quickly. We drove about a 1/2 mile and took the first open spot. I can’t recommend going down the east road. It’s rough and very few spots exists. And there’s no good turn around. The road west is much better. Level gravel sites large enough to accommodate a trailer up to 30 feet. AT&T service was just 1-2 bats LTE.

I loved this site, beautiful piece of the Sonoran Desert. I stopped at the second site that I saw, so I'm not sure how far back it goes. Ocassional carnsounds from the main road. I saw some RVs a little down the way and heard their dogs barking once in awhile, but overall I felt very secluded and private. Unfortunately there was some litter and a used needle not too far from where I was. Also, almost no cell phone coverage, but I honestly like that once in a while.

Beautiful scenery! The road goes back quite a ways, we’re in an 18’ class C and we made it back about 1.5 miles and found a big spot. You do hear gunshots all day and into the evening, but that doesn’t bother us. The dirt road runs parallel to Park Link Drive, so even though we were so far away from the entrance we still heard the occasional car drive by on the road.

I saw cactus wrens, prairie dogs, a large black snake (no rattling sound) that was startled and slithered away, and quail, among other animals. I heard coyotes howling one night. I was attacked by a cholla cactus, though.

I've only seen one group of people, and they just stayed overnight one night.

My Verizon coverage went from 3G one bar to 4G two bars. I seemed to be getting 4G two bars near the end of my stay.

If you need groceries there is a bit of an 11-mile drive to Marana.

This was a hopeful site, but this is not really a good site for towables and Class A's, though I did find a Class A down the road. It did a bit of damage to the surrounding area to fit in.
No, this is a great place for Class C's, van dwellers, and tenters.
I was able to fit in on the side of the road at the front.
Its plenty quiet and the signal strength for Verizon was fair.

We were deceived about how spacious this place may have been. We new from other reviews we would need to stay close to the road in order to fit but when we got there we had only enough room to turn around. There were two other rigs backed into the cactus forest and no way for us to continue up the narrow dirt road. We got out to take a make sure we couldn't turn around further and even though I watched where my pup stepped (right next to my feet) within a minute he had cactus paws. It just wasn't a good fit all around. Really... Heed the warnings if you have a dog (or small kids in our case as well) this place is gorgeous and amazing but oh so tricky and oh so prickly. So in summary, incredible views but no spot for our 36' fer and not a good place for dogs and small kids who trip all the time.

We stayed closer to the cattle tank, just a couple spots down. We had 2 vans and a tent canopy, which was nice to keep bugs out and little dog in. Very clean and 99% of the time quite, occasionally in day time you would hear shooting in far off distance. Night time was so peaceful you could hear an occasional moo from a cow. Only negative was my little Yorkie had to have cactus pulled out every time I took him to do his business so he spent a lot of time on tarp in tent until we went in van. Bring tweezers! Great place but not for pets.