McDowell Mountain Regional Park Campground

We’ve stayed here multiple times this year. This stay was for two nights. We did have to change sites because we couldn’t get two consecutive nights. Sites are always clean. Sites have water & electric hook up and fire pits. Bath house is clean. Dump station just outside the campground. Didn’t get a chance this time to stop at the visitor center. The views are great all around and there are hiking trails. All staff we encountered were nice and helpful. Close proximity to Fountain Hills.

We stayed three nights at this wonderful campground while visiting family in the area. It was hard to get three nights in a row so we had to stay one night in one space, two nights in the other. We were able to find available spaces timely by using wanderinglabs.com, which will notify you when a site becomes available at any park anywhere. The sites are well spaced out and contain water and electricity. Each has a well-maintained space and a sand picnic area with barbecue grill. There are numerous bicycle and hiking trails around, which a lot of campers seemed to be enjoying. Bathrooms are close by, clean and well-lit. It’s close to the metro area but far enough away to be quiet and remote, other than planes flying overhead during the daytime. Camp hosts are friendly and helpful. In April, the flowers and birds were amazing. We loved it.

We could only get one night here March 10. Everything else was booked. Great site. Electric & Water. RR/Showers were nice and clean. The sites were raked after each camper. Very nice! Trails were great. We didn’t get to do too much and we are hoping to come back another time. Dump Station could use improvements. Only reason for the 4-star rating.

We stayed here for 14 days and the site hosts are very friendly. Restrooms were really clean with a single shower in both the men’s and women’s bathrooms. There are multiple bathroom facilities throughout the park that are within walking distance of each other. The wildlife is very active here, we saw snakes, tarantulas, and heard coyotes howling every night. We had a small hiccup in the beginning with an faulty 50amp plug on the pedestal, but they sent someone out the next day and were very accommodating with moving us to a different spot. One day was extremely windy and quite scary, but I’m sure that’s somewhat common in the area.

Renovated shower houses and bathrooms, excellent trails, cool visitors center where you can see alive snakes so you know which ones to stay away from ha! The sites are spaced out nicely so you’re not on top of each other and everyone has a fire pit, picnic table, water, and electric. It’s about a 30 minute drive to Scottsdale so bring all you need in to save gas. Dumpsters and dump site available. The trails were my favorite with trails for mountain bikes and hikers. Beautiful area. Didn’t see any wildlife in December.

I paid $32 + $8 (reservation fee)
When we went there on Saturday without reservation, the campground was full, so I book next day there and came back next day.
As you enter the campground area, you will first see the dump area. There are two dump places so 2 RVs at a time but no one was there when we are there.
Since the check in time is 1pm, we went for a hike while waiting there. If you camp there, they waive the park entrance fee.
The hike is not hilly just flat road. Did not run into any rattlesnake when we were there.
Very quiet throughout the day and night.
Verizon has 2 bars in 5G and sometimes the signal was becoming weak. I do not have cell booster so it should be better with it.
Overall pretty nice stay!

We pulled in here after dark on 10/7 based on all the fantastic reviews. Immediately we were greeted by an aggressive-seeming rattlesnake in the road. So, he won this one, and we left. There was also a big sign on the bathrooms in all caps saying “SNAKES ARE OUT” - so if you’re just passing through, be forewarned that this is what you’ll be in for in October.

We absolutely love this campground. Super nice volunteers, great sites, unbelievably fun mountain bike trails.Great road biking. So why only 3 stars? We have been here several times over a period of about 5 years and we've never been able to get a campsite for more than 4 days at a time even though we start looking 6 months in advance. This year we were able to stay here for 13 days but had to move numerous times. We discovered that some people have been here for 6 months! Unlike most of the really popular campgrounds that we've been to that have a maximum stay fo 14 days and them a mandatory break of a certain amount of time before you can re-book. Here you can make 14 day reservations one after another. This seems like a really bad policy. Not sure how these people do it since we are looking the minute the sites are available. At any rate, if you are lucky enough to get in you will have a great time!