3 Dreamers RV Park

The natural landscape around here is pretty spectacular, so it’s recommended that you get out and about for tours of the Sonoran Desert, uphill climbs in the Harquahala Mountains (45 minutes’ drive) or trips to Alamo Lake State Park (an hour) for swims, boating and some excellent bass fishing. It may look a tad dry and dusty around these parts, but this area actually supports a surprising amount of life – you just need to know where to seek it out. Kofa National Wildlife Refuge (half an hour), Cibola National Wildlife Refuge (an hour) and Bill Williams River National Wildlife Refuge (an hour and a half) are the places to head if you’ve got binoculars primed for birdwatching. The rocky landscape isn’t just pretty to look at, it’s also abundant in all sorts of gems and minerals. The place to head for all that is Quartzsite (25 minutes), home to a huge annual gem show and the place to find fossils and other buried treasure. Sometimes the mining doesn’t go quite to plan, and you can see the aftermath of such a thing at the ghost town of Swansea (an hour and 15 minutes).