Friday, September 13
The rest area entering Arizona:
At the end of the drive we were at Meteor Crater RV Park.
Here's the review of the park; tomorrow I'll post some more interesting details.
Review: Overpriced and not all that friendly
We stayed here two nights and wished we hadn't. The highway noise was atrocious. The site itself was okay and they were paying the water cost to keep a few trees alive, but it was pretty barren even for the desert. There were no amenities like games or a community firepit; the playground was just a single pre-fab piece of equipment and a bench. No shade at all. The whole place felt unwelcoming and unloved, like a money-making enterprise run by absentee owners.
There were two huge dog parks (60'x 40' maybe) but they had no shade at all and only a broken bench in each. So for almost all of the day in spring/summer/fall, they are useless. Instead of poop bags they provided a rake and scoop bucket, which was a sensible idea, but I suspect they were just too cheap to spring for bags.
Almost everywhere around the edges of the park are signs prohibiting dogs, which is unrealistic. It's a pretty large park, and how many people would walk all the way to the dog park for every pee break? Most parks just provide bags and trash cans and accept the occasional mess to clean up.
There were no fires allowed, not even fully enclosed ones. I wouldn't recommend this place unless you have no pets and you stay indoors all the time while camping.
Things to do
Homolovi had a great campground and a lot of cool stuff to see.
The meteor Crater tour was kind of expensive, but for the price we got a great tour guide who told us all kind of interesting stuff. Plus we got to see the 3-D experience movie. (the dialog and plot was at a 4-year-old level, but the visuals were cool.)
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