Willcox - Cochise KOA Holiday

Stayed here beginning of Feb 2024.
Pull-through FHU 50 amp. All gravel. Site #17

General: Convenient. Great store and good restaurant on site.

Staff: Staff are very nice and helpful.
Sites: Bare necessities. Primarily nicely compressed gravel.
Campground Road: Gravel..
Campground WiFi: Great campground WiFi! Can stream and work on VPN with no problems at all. Zoom meetings were smooth as well.
Grounds: Clean and maintained really well.
Bathrooms/Showers: Did not use.
Laundry: Did not use.
Location: Gas (Love's) is less than 0.25 miles from office. 45 min from Chiricahua NM, 30 min from Tombstone, 45 min from Bisbee.
Near highway: Yes. Directly off of the interstate so you do hear the traffic.
Near train: No.
Cell using booster: Both AT&T (3 of 4 bars —4G) and Verizon (3 of 4 bars sometimes 2 bars—4G) worked well enough. Worked on VPN just fine and have Zoom meetings with small moments of lag. Could stream as well.

This KOA was really nice. This is an obvious labor of love for the staff who are very nice and will help guide you to your site. There is a cafe on-site who will also deliver food to your campsite. The cafe has Blue Bell ice cream and various breakfast, lunch and dinner. The bathrooms are really clean, nice and new looking with nice hot showers (just not a ton of water pressure). There are two showers each in the women's and men's. We didn't use the laundry, but it was a large room with parking out in front. There is also a nice playground and the store is well-stocked.

There is a heated pool and hot tub, but we didn't have time to use it. I wish we could have stayed a couple of more days here! It was strangely cold when we were there (with below freezing temps for about 9 hours), so they had us not use water (we had prepared and pre-filled our freshwater tank). The internet was fantastic - I had two kids playing videogames on their computers while talking to friends on iPads while we streamed a movie from Disney+ on a Fire Stick to the TV and surfed on iPads. They also had cable TV channels, but we didn't use them.

The only issue was the highway road noise. Our site was a little closer to the freeway with no one blocking the sound, so my guess is that it would be better the further in you are. The people here are soooo nice - I hope they get lots of people camping here!

Staff could not have been more helpful, and gave us lots of recommendations for things to do in the area, where to dine (including the onsite Roadrunner Kafe), and what local museums are worth a visit. We were then escorted to our site. Sites are on small rocks, and ours was a Patio site, so we had a lovely table/chairs/umbrella, a grill, and a freestanding fire pit. A large tree and a section of fence also made our site (Site 1) feel cozy and private, though none of the sites are packed in tight. Absolutely loved the seating area near the dog park that allowed for evening viewing of spectacular sunsets over the mountains.
Water pressure is very good (use a water pressure regulator). Starlink had some drops, but mainly good service. Safeway grocery store is just across the highway, so very convenient. We did order a pizza from Roadrunner Kafe, and it was delicious. They even deliver to your site, which was a major boon after a long day of driving. Happy to have a decent dog park, too!
The resort is right off the highway, so there is some highway noise. Traffic is relatively low at night.
We highly appreciated the text message updates, including one that suggested we unhook our water hose one evening when the temperatures were due to dip below freezing.
The effort that goes into making this a welcoming stay is evident.

Many great amenities here. Great pool, jacuzzi, close by the Roadrunner Cafe (my husband loved that little cafe! ),
group gas campfire, sunset viewing area, friendly staff, and on and on. All KOA's are not the same!

The only thing is: It is located right next to the Interstate, so you will hear the droning traffic 24/7. Most KOA's are very convenient to busy highways, so we don't usually stay at them. ( because of this very reason)

This was our 2nd stay at this campground: I wasn’t writing reviews during our first stay in the winter of 2020. Both times we stayed in one of the pull-through sites at the back of the campground. All of the sites and roads within the campground are gravel. Each site has a line of stones that mark the left and right edges of the site. The regular sites have a picnic table; the deluxe sites have a concrete patio with a swinging chair, a table and chairs with an umbrella, and a grill. Our site was level and had the hookups reasonably positioned, with the power pole more towards the back. Some sites have trees while others do not.

The campground is right off of I-10, so there is road noise that is audible inside of the RV. That’s also why the fenced in dog-park on the western end of the campground contains a highway billboard, which helps to light the dog park at night. The dog park is a decent size, but it also has a small stone gravel surface, so if your dog isn’t a fan of gravel you may want to walk them in the open space behind the campground. During our first visit, that space was just a dirt field with some desert grasses, but since then they’ve created a walking path that stretches between the dog park and a public seating area with a fire ring and rocking chairs meant to be used to watch sunsets.

In addition to the usual amenities, they have a restaurant on site - the Roadrunner Kafe - that serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. During our first visit we had dinner sitting at a table in the restaurant, watching football on their TV. This time we called in an order and they delivered it to our RV for no extra charge. Their specialty dessert is their pecan cinnamon roll. The restaurant has some nice outdoor seating (which I don’t think was there in 2020) with heat lamps and a communal fireplace.

During our first visit (when we stayed for a week), I struggled to get a good enough cell signal to work remotely on both my Verizon hotspot with MIMO antenna and my AT&T smartphone. It was somewhat better this time around: the best speed I got on Verizon during the late afternoon on a Saturday was 6.8 Mbps down and 20 up. Streaming was doable, but I ended up hooking up to the cable connection on the power pole, which provides 48 channels. At 7am the next morning, I saw 23 down and 7 up. My AT&T smartphone, using 5G during this visit, got 133 Mbps down and 10.7 up.

On the flip side, the campground WiFi was excellent during both visits. During this visit I saw speeds of 102 Mbps down and 54 up.

We would stay here again if we were in the area.

fter a visually stimulating 280 mile drive, we have arrived at our home for the evening. Unfortunately for our boys, it’s another all gravel location however other than that, it is a solid 9/10 (-1 for the gravel). And I’ll get right to it: this is the home of the Herculean Hamsters! Never have I seen 50 Mb down at any hotel, let alone RV park - until today. There is smoke coming out of my computer, my mouse jumped into Max’s water bowl and I’m missing the fingerprint on one of my thumbs. 🔥🔥

The majority of sites are FH pull through with two sewer hookups, cable (these folks even have terminators on the coax to keep db loss to a minimum at the empty slips.) 45+ channels including TCM and did I mention SMOKIN’ internet? AT&T is two bars but who cares with 🔥🔥? The facilities are well kept and very clean and water pressure in the showers is strong. (After seeing the park showers we decided to splurge with unlimited water in a much larger space than our onboard setup.)

The staff is friendly and available, check-in was quick and easy and there is an on-site cafe serving all day, with chicken fried steak available all day (as well as Bluebell ice cream). Definitely a be-back place for us!
Loved the changing desert views, changing from sand and scrub to rocks and cactus, all the while with mountains and mile-long trains in the background. Diane took lots of pix which she will post. Also loved the THIRTY degree drop in temperature from last night to now; it’s a comfy 82 inside and outside and our A/C will not be running tonight.

NOTE: It is next to I-10 and depending on the slip you get it can be noisy.

We were in a 28' Class C towing a VW Beetle

Edit #1: The food at the “KOA Kafe” was delicious, especially the jalapeño corn and the Hatch Mac n Cheese!

We stayed at the Willcox KOA for six nights. The park is well-maintained, sites are large and the staff is very friendly. The wifi is the best we have ever had in an RV park, the cafe was great, and the store well-stocked. We did not use the pool or hot tub. The park is convenient to the many wineries and Chiricahua National Monument (not to be missed). We also did a day trip to historic Bisbee - about 1.5 hours away. The only downside is the traffic noise, but it didn't bother us and they do offer free ear plugs.