Lone Tree Dispersed Camping

If you are thinking of boondocking near Lake Havasu City, this is our first choice. (Cattail Cove is a great full-service campground, but it's usually fully booked online.)

As you pull in off the Highway you'll see other rigs parked at random. We found a great space by heading in and then angling right, towards that "3-Finger Rock" and camping near the edge of the ridge. There is some early morning road noise, but not bad with coffee. It is surrounded with nice natural vistas while the location is just a couple of miles up the road from Walmart, Home Depot, Loews, etc., etc.. If you need any RV part, a great place is London Bridge RV parts. (Try to make the very knowledgeable, attractive, lady owner smile. Betcha can't.)

First off, we ended up here by accident for spring break, so I had low expectations coming into this. When we disperse camp we like to be actually dispersed... but it was late in the evening, we couldn’t get last minute reservations anywhere, and it was our first time in the area.

I was actually pleasantly surprised because for as many rigs squeezed into that area, it was so quiet. With our four children we were probably the noisiest ones. No music, parties, and people were considerate with their generator hours. Most people had to jack up a side pretty good to get level, and we did too.

Internet signal (upload and download) were fantastic. Hubby could work and all the kids could zoom at once for school.

The next day we could see lots of other boondocking places along both sides of the road as you head into Lake Havasu. Not all were listed here on Campendium. We were already unhooked so it would have been a pain to go move, but scout around the area if you don’t want cozy neighbors.

The Walmart 7 minutes away has a big water refill station in the back by the dairy 29c/gallon. We filled our 7 gal containers there.

The only complaint I had was one morning the wind was blowing and the exhaust of multiple generators around us got in our trailer and caused massive headaches. It was also breezy enough most afternoons that we couldn’t keep our awning out. It would be a very toasty place to stay in the summer.

Zero T-Mobile. This is a sloped plateau with plenty of line of sight you would think had T-Mobile service since I had no problems when I was at the Walmart a few miles back. I have a fancy Pepwave router with a second T-Mobile SIM card and 2 antennas and it can’t pick up T-Mobile either. Verizon smokin! I’m using it as a back up now because I’m too tired to move and re hitch. My friend has ATT she has 5 bars. It is crowed like an rv park and on a slope. The best I could do was 6 degree sideways then fix to 2 degrees. The class A next to me has one of their tires off the ground. Personally, there were plenty of pull outs on the south side of town I’ll try in the future.

Great location if you plan on doing a trip to Havasu! We stayed two nights, disconnected and went into town for the day. Right off the hwy with minimal road noise. Drive into town about 12 miles. Pleased to see sites left clean, kuddos to everyone doing their part in keeping BLM trash free. About 50+ RVS here, mostly clustered in center open space. We were lucky to find a spot on one of the less crowded “peninsula” sites.

We stayed three days here. about 50 other rv's in the area some in groups and most spread out around the area.

quiet at night and decent dark skies. it on top of the final drop into lake havasu so you can hear some of the louder truck coming up hill but did not really notice it was annoying at all..

We came in and went to the right near the sign posted at the area where the water had started eroding out.. we stayed about 6 ft away pointing southish.. this got decent sun for the solar panels

there were some running generators during the day and evening but my 9 or so it was quiet.

down the road are a bunch of cell towers so service was very good there.. ATT and tmobile.

it was windy the whole time which was fun.. we got to hear the wind whistling around the doors and windows.. LOL..

the ground was mostly gravel so no worries on getting stuck.. there are a couple of swells you need to be looking for especially with the lower unit like our airstream but not really a big issue.

we used the area to check out london bridge area, take a boat trip, drive over parker dam and down the CA side of colorado river to I-40, check out the other BLM area closer to town.. (this is better by a LONG shot.) and have some chil time.. there was a bunch of ATV coming through the area to trail but were going slow and waving to us..

we parked up wind to avoid the dust.. which over all was not bad..

the sunsets over the mountains are spectacular..