pjsky wrote: If you are going to Arizona to stay warm for the winter, come to Yuma. It is the warmest place in Arizona because Yuma is only 100 feet above sea level. The rest of the state is higher, therefor cooler. This is our seventh year in Yuma. Compared to Phoenix and Tucson it IS NOT CROUDED.
pjsky wrote: If you are going to Arizona to stay warm for the winter, come to Yuma. It is the warmest place in Arizona because Yuma is only 100 feet above sea level. The rest of the state is higher, therefor cooler. This is our seventh year in Yuma. Compared to Phoenix and Tucson it IS NOT CROUDED.
Paul
Try going out for supper,try getting on a golf course and having a 9 hole round under 3 hours,try buying groceries later then early morning,try keeping your awning, add a room up during the numerous sand storms!!We did it all for several years and finally moved on.Each of us have our likes and dislikes so go and see,we did.
We went to Florence, Arizona this year......Desert Gardens. Lots of activities, pool, spa, stained glass, quilting, ancestry etc. Big lots. We liked it but got sick of the grit. Nice comfortable temperatures. Cycling was good.
While every winter is different here in mostly sunny Arizona you never know what you will get. Yesterday it was 86, not a cloud in the sky, drop dead gorgeous. Since the first of the year we have had almost no rain and 9 days out of 10 have been in the mid to high 70's with a few very nice 80+ degree days (warmest/driest winter we've seen in 7 years). Tonight the wind is howling and the big storm is moving in from the coast. We are expecting an inch of rain and the snow level to drop to 5K' tonight, down to 3k' on Sunday night. We've seen an inch of snow twice this winter, it lasts a couple of hours, but expect to wake up Monday morning to a couple of inches. Even with snow in the forecast our lows will only be in the low 30's and we are going camping down to Patagonia Lake SP next week. This year winterizing the TT has consisted of adding a bottle of Crown Royale and a pair of long pants.
Our first winter in Arizona...love the rugged desert landscape, and the non-freezing, even hot days at times.....but the wind...wow...some other campers who have been coming here for many years say the wind has been worse than usual this year.......I hope so, we will try it again next year, and hope they were right.
The heck of it is, I don't know where else we would go...not Calif, because of costs...Texas? twice as far for us...
I don't think there is a winter place without some kind of problem.
We have spent the last four winters at Desert Trails RV Park west of Tucson. Tucson can be busy but you seldom have to go into town. The park is in a wonderful area, borders on Tucson Mountain State Park. Hundreds of places to hike, bike, explore. Some sites do tend to be crowded but the ambiance makes up for it. MUCH, much less wind than Yuma and only maybe 1 or 2 degrees cooler. It's about 10 miles from town, so far less busy of an area. The park has two biking groups--one for us softies on streets or easy trails, one for mountain bikers. Check out their website: deserttrailsrvpark.com/
2007 Northwoods Arctic Fox 32 5S Fifth Wheel-for sale now that we are not full-timing
2011 Keystone 23rks Hideout to poke around the smaller parks in the great Southwest
2007 Chevy Silverado 2500 HD Diesel
Prodigy brake control
Our campground avoided by luck a major disaster.......about 5:00AM one morning, a park model that was empty, burst into flames, and burned to the ground...residents fought the fire with garden hoses, and stopped it with only damage to the adjoining trailers..
The early morning wind was calm.......by 9:00AM, the wind was gusting at 40mph..if it had been blowing like that earlier, it would have taken out most of the park.
We have traveled a good portion of the state and have drawn a few conclusions- some of which have already been expressed. We love Tucson- but it is about 10 degrees cooler than Phoenix or Yuma. I'm thinking the biking would be good there tho- Casa Grande was a good suggestion- not too crowded and close to lots of stuff you may need. Florence is a real haven for the ATV crowd- don't know about biking. Yuma is indeed the warmest but is crowded and parks are expensive.. We love Parker too- hard to beat the Parker strip. Beautiful, good weather, things you need are close. Yeah- I'm thinking the Parker Strip.
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