Escapees North Ranch RV Park

Super friendly place, lots of activities, beautiful gardens and a nice dog park. Beware if you have AT&T, no service in that entire area of Wickenburg and Congress. Would definitely stay here again.

Nice place to stay for a short time. No 50amp spots. Would return quiet campground

North Ranch is a very large park, most of which is dedicated to deeded lots & homes. Only the front 1/10 section or so of the park is open to drop-in RV camping, and this is a very basic area consisting of 2 big dirt lots with ~111 RV sites with 30amp/water/sewer (no 50 amp) arranged side-by-side in 3 long rows. Sites are dirt, long, flat and decently separated, but there's nothing to separate one side from the other (no privacy) and no real "site extras" except a picnic table. it's just a big 'ol parking lot. When empty there's lots of space to spread out, but when full I could see this feeling a tad cramped.

That said, the park is quiet & welcoming, with lots of BLM land around to explore (allows ATV's, dirt biking, dog-walking etc.) and plenty of social activities for those interested. Plus it's a good location to explore the whole Congress/Wickenberg area. Also the price is right (only $20/night for SKP (Escapee) members. For non-SKP's it's higher). Not a fancy place, but a quiet, basic spot to explore the area.

Good Verizon LTE signal, but only 3G on ATT. On-site Tengo (paid) but we didn't try it.

We only stayed overnight (March 2016) and this RV park was perfectly good for an overnight stay. The price (for Escapees members) was great and the staff was friendly and helpful. The sites and roads are all gravel (typical for a desert RV Park) but we found the sites to be closer together that we like. A little more space would have made a big difference. Our back-in site was along a row of trees which were very nice, but the branches prevented us from backing our rig up as far as we normally would, so we were sticking out into the road a little bit. We had no AT&T signal but Verizon LTE worked well enough. The park recycles paper, plastic, and cans which was a nice change from most parks we stay at in Arizona. There's a pretty nice fenced dog area (gravel) and a dirt path for walking dogs. We'd gladly do a short-term stay again, but the small sites, 30-amp hookups, and lack of AT&T service would make us think twice before a longer stay. Get your rig weighed at the Escapees SmartWeigh station while you're there. That's the main reason we came here.

This is a weekly rate for full hookup (30 amp) for Escapees members. The sites are on a large gravel lot in front of deeded sites for residents. Sites vary from narrow to about normal for a private RV park, that is to say not very large. There are picnic tables on each site. We were at the far side of the campground with empty sites across the way so we had a nice sunset view.

This campground, like other Escapee facilities, offers lots of activities. The park has an indoor pickle ball court, a large clubhouse, a large activity center, a horseshoe pit, a dog run, and laundry facilities. They give you a list of activities when you check in which include exercise classes, crafts etc.

We did not use the dog run but there is a path along the front of the campground also for doggies. There is also a lovely cactus garden at the north end of the park with an exceptionally large saguaro amongst other nice specimens.

The town of Congress is about five minutes away. Grocery store, hardware stores and others are available in Wickenburg, about fifteen minutes away.

There is lots of hiking in the area and the towns of Prescott, with some beautiful lakes and Williams, on route 66 and the starting point of the Grand Canyon railway are day trip distance.

We were looking forward to coming here. There is really nice Mountain views and you are close to Prescott Valley and Pheonix.
Our plans for enjoying ourselves here were quickly turned around after meeting and talking to some in Management. All conversations were met with sarcasm and rudeness, something we
never experienced before while full timing.

Very friendly people and helpful staff.
Wide spaces.
Water/elec connections in good order
Gravel lot, no mud
Beautiful cactus park and pathway
Spotless laundry area
Perfect road surface for walking biking
Nice homes and interesting landscapes when walking the neighborhood
Good tv signal
12 miles to decent grocery store.
Hike, atv, dirt bike right out the back gate. I rode all the way to Stanton and Yarnell, great dirt bike ride
Some people dont like highway 89 north to Prescott but my friend followed us with a FW and double tow at 63 ft long with no problems. Beautiful drive up to Yarnell

Some highway noise during the day but quiet enough at night
Don't expect tall shade trees in most any desert locations
I used up my Verizon data. IIf you buy the Tengonet it's not real good. Works in a pinch but not great

Thank you Escapees we will be back again for a longer stay

Nothing special. A large gravel lot but it serves for a great overnight stop. Everyone was friendly and helpful. There is no Wi-Fi but cell signal was good.

UPDATE 07/10/2018

We have been informed that the person(s) in question is/are no longer at North Ranch. Updating my star rating to what it would be without this portion of our stay: 4 stars. We are now very excited to be returning to North Ranch this coming winter!

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The campers and long-termers here are both great. The pickle ball court is great. The laundry rooms are nice. The community events are a lot of fun. The people in the main office are very intense, though, and have made it such that we won't stay here again.

We've been here for two months. All was well for quite a while, but this last week, we've been approached and yelled at twice. Both times we were accused of illegal usage of the dumpsters even though we are staying in the campground and have every right to use the dumpsters. This second time we were also threatened to not have our site renewed (even though there are many empty here). So we're being threatened to be kicked out for using the dumpster.

The managers are very angry and seem to not realize they approach people with a great deal of anger and yelling. I tried to respond and give constructive feedback this second time and encourage a conversation but I couldn't get a single sentence off and then the manager just drove off. He literally followed us around the park to come find us and accuse us of this illegal garbage dump use. It's creepy and way too aggressive and I no longer feel any comfort staying here -- the took the fun right out of this place.

I'll never stay here again and I won't recommend that anyone else ever stay here.

We had a spot along the dog trail, basic spot, picnic table and hook ups.There is space to park your vehicle next to your RV on this all gravel, level parking lot. Front office very friendly and helpful for referrals. Clubhouse cozy with fireplace going. Laundry facilities small for such a large facility. We were in the north corner and had good cell phone reception, understood those in the south were spotty.
We also had their “Smart Weigh” service done,(weighing of rig and tow vehicle) which was informative, efficient and educational.
We would stay there again