McHood Park

The campground is just 5 miles south of Winslow, AZ and the road is paved the whole way. This place has back in and pull through sites all with tables, fire rings. The sites are huge with plenty of room for tents or what have you. This is Boondocking so no water or power but it does have garbage cans and bathrooms(very dirty though)! 14 day stay for free why not?

We showed up at 6pm in a Sunday and there was only 1 site left.

There are small thorny bushes all over so watch your pets paws.

The shower and bathroom had no doors or curtains and seems very run down, so we didn’t use it.

The sites are laid out like any typical RV Park and include a rock fire pit, picnic table, and bbq grill.

Night was super quiet and the sunset view was awesome. I would highly recommend this spot to anyone looking for a quiet overnight dry camping spot near Winslow. Free and quiet, 5 stars from me.

The good: We just needed a place to land for the night, and this campground worked wonderfully. Each site has a grill and a picnic table, and it overlooks a lake. Free is always good.

The bad: There’s no shade and the bathrooms aren’t good (more grimy than filthy, stained toilets, stalls that don’t lock), so that’s be a consideration if I were planning a longer stay. Also, they don’t have potable water.

At our arrival around 5pm on a Sunday- it was quite full. There were open spots along the inside of the water front, however some motor homes & other vehicles/campers parked so you couldn’t get another truck & trailer in to the open spots. They did not look to be sites for bigger set ups .
We parked down in the open lot down by the boat launches. For the most part it was quiet, but there were more vehicles coming through here than one expected. Verizon service was not terrible but much better with the weboost.

We loved our stay at MCHOOD. Close to town and grocery stores, loved kayaking with easy access to water from our campsite. Good Verizon service but we still used our weboost. Our only concern ,which has nothing to do with the park, was the amount of overnight tent campers and car campers that leave their trash behind on the ground especially since the dumpster is right there. The camp is clean (since other campers clean up after the slobs) Only small complaint is there doesn’t seem to be a leash law for dogs and those of us with no dogs hate that people let their dogs pee all over our camp stuff.

This was a very nice county park. We stayed in a site right on the water, but there were pull through and back in spots also available. The campground had many openings mid-week, but did fill up on the weekend. We are self-contained so we did not use the restroom facilities. It was a great place to stay to see Winslow, the Meteor crater and the Painted Desert. Verizon was best at 29MB DL/11UL speeds. AT&T worked, but it was much slower - 3MB DL/1MB UL.

This nice free campground is located near a small lake. First come first serve bases. Nice concrete sites. No amenities, perfect boondocking
Each site has a fire ring, grill & picnic table. Some sites are pull through
We didn’t use the facilities. Stayed 2 nights. Was nice to drop off our rig & explore the area
The road is paved, all the way to the campground
It appears they are doing some maintenance
Lots of picnic areas around & near the water - no camping in picnic area
14 day limit