Kartchner Caverns State Park Campground

We totally camp without reservations when we've never been to an area. Our first night here we spent the night in the overflow parking lot, which was totally fine. The second night we stayed here at the campground.
Arizona sure knows how to have great partial and full hook up State Park campgrounds.
This is a great 62 site, 2 loop campground with all the anemities. All paved roads and camp sites. And 2 dump stations on the road out. Close by walking paths, hiking trails, or biking.

We enjoyed our stay at Kartchner Caverns State Park. You will definitely, want reservations at least during peak season for both the campground and the caverns tour. Both were full/sold out during our stay in late March.

The campground is adequate, although the sites are close together and some are very unlevel. Each site has a picnic table and gorgeous fire pit. We did not use the restrooms/showers so cannot speak to those.

The visitor center is a must do, as well as a cavern tour. I wasn't thrilled that no photography was allowed, since there was no reason given except they didn't want folks to drop their phone/camera and to pay attention to the tour guide. Really? The caverns are beautiful though.

We did the Foothills Loop trail and there are several other trail options.

We had 2 bars of Verizon 4G, but the campground offered excellent wifi.

Awesome Cave and State Park... recommend cave tour reservations before but if you don't, they reserve 4 spots on each tour for walkup. These are FCFS at 8:00 morning of. I was at the Discovery Center at 7:45 and the ranger at the desk let me go ahead and reserve our tour. Excellent tour. As indicated in other reviews, there is a wide variation in sites. Ours, #7, was convenient to bathrooms but had very little privacy. Great base for Tombstone, Bisbee and Coronado National Memorial. We visited Fort Huachuca Museum as well.

Another great AZ State Park!! Kartchner Caverns campground is very clean and the bathrooms were clean and all operating. The only negative is there are millions of small thorn balls all over the rocks and grassy areas. They stick onto the bottom of your shoes and then you track them into your trailer and step on them with bare feet. Check your shoes before going inside...ouch! Also, I don't know if it was just the time of year we were there or because of the campground's position at the base of a canyon but it was super windy--gusts between 20-40 mph.

Our site was 47--back-in, long and pretty level, and backs up to wilderness. I would book this site again.

From our site we got some WiFi from the park at times and 1-2 bars LTE and 5G on T-Mobile most of the time.

As others have noted, some of the sites look flat in the campground photos but if you have a long rig, you will need a lot of leveling blocks.

I made note of a few particularly un-level sites--37, 44, 45, 54

Level but short sites--58, 43

Some longer level sites--38, 39, 40, 41, 46, 47, 51, 52, 55, 56, 57

Most of the sites I noted are in the east/lower part of the campground. I didn't walk around the west/upper part.

During our camping trip, we did one of the tours (Throne Room) and almost all the hikes (all very nice and Guilliani Loop is a good cardio workout). Near Benson we did a tour of Forever Home Donkey Rescue; and and afternoon wine tasting in Sonoita/Elgin. We highly recommend Dos Cabezas for pizza in Sonoita.

AZ state parks keep their sites one of the best I've seen. Kartchner was clean and relatively spread out, quiet too. We did the Foothills Loop, which was nice, not demanding. The short spur to the top of one hill was a little tougher, it had a few areas with big steps/rocks to get over. We also did the Rotunda/Throne Room tour which was a real treat. Believe the comments about 99% humidity and 70F. There are air lock doors and a misting hall to go in just to keep the climate right for the rock formations. We also spent a day in Tombstone, visited the Courthouse, which was a blast in the past history. Then on to Bisbee, which was interesting, but we really enjoyed the Bisbee Breakfast Club for lunch. We also spent a day hiking at Chiricahua National Monument. We really enjoyed the rock formations during the hike. I would recommend doing both those trips.

This was a quiet and clean place - stayed for 5 nights while visiting relatives in Tucson. Two hiking trails in the park: Foothills is relatively easy if you're mobile..rocky and slippery in sections and some boulders to clamber over. Guindani is a 4.2 loop trail that goes into state forest land and is much more challenging. We went counter-clockwise from the beginning of the trail and liked that direction. As you are heading back on the west side of the loop it is mostly downhill and you are exposed to the sun on a steep narrow path. Neither trail is bike friendly.
Roads are paved, some sites are roomier than others. Cave and Discovery Center were awesome.
ATT speed test: 54.7 down & 3.39 up. The free Go Ranger WiFi worked well also.
Site 11 actually DOES have a sewer connection! It fit our 35' fifth wheel and our truck. It is however very very close to the neighbor on site 12. Other sites in the park are much wider spaced.
FYI-They have a very roomy paved overnight RV dry-camping lot - so if you just want to stop over and no sites are available - there is a good chance the overnight lot will be able to accommodate you. The lot does have water pumps and covered picnic tables.

Love's Travel is at the I-10 exit and on both sides of the road they have diesel available.
AJO Bikes in Tucson fit us in to "thorn-proof" our bike tires. Great customer service, big bike shop.
Visited Saguaro East National Park and did the 8 mile loop and Visitor Center. Ate lunch at the little bistro at the entrance-very good.

Super clean, sites are spacious and all with outstanding views. Very impressed with this park. The park does not allow you to come early to check in and that’s because they clean the sites, rack the gravel and make sure everything is pristine for your stay. Everything was outstanding. The showers were clean, the water was good and electric was stable. Each site had a fire pit and picnic table.

As others have said, it’s a dart sky park so the stars are popping out of the sky.

There are bumper outs hikes to enjoy the scenery. All levels of exertion. I highly recommend this gem of a park.