Sentinel Peak RV Park

RV Park Review – Sentinal Peak RV Park – Tucson, Arizona

Entrance To Sentinel Peak RV Park – Sensor Gated.

This is the only downtown RV park in Tucson. Just 3 minutes from over 300 restaurants, shops, and attractions, providing you with unmatched access to arts, culture, and entertainment during your stay. You are 30 minutes away from the main attraction in my mind, Saguaro National Park. This is a GoodSams Park

Link To RV Park: Sentinal Peak Rv Park

Link to MAP: Directions

A) Site Quality: ⛺️⛺️⛺️⛺️/5

This is one big square pad of asphalt and stone scape. The sites are separated by the stone or desert scape with a few new trees scattered around the outer edges of the property. They are very level and the park requires you to use pads. I can understand why on a hot day during the summer you will bury the jacks in the asphalt.

Insights

• The staff lives on-site in one of the fifth wheels parked as you come in. They are very helpful and nice to deal with.
• This is a very small city RV park consisting of 23 sites. Sites 19-23 are 70′ pull through with a fair amount of space between sites. Each of these sites has picnic tables and a two-and-a-half-foot-wide patch of stone running down the site. There is more than ample room to park your rig, truck, or toad. The orientation is nose to the south, your door will be facing west.
• They offer 50′ deluxe back-in and pull-in sites with a bit more stone scape and a tree. There is plenty of room to jack your fifth wheel into the sites unobstructed. Parking might be an issue for longer rigs and big trucks
• The 55′ Premium back in sites offer you a bit more space between rigs and stone scape and trees.

B) Facilities: ⛺️⛺️⛺️⛺️/5 

The main building as you enter the property serves as the clubhouse, laundry, bathrooms, and office. It is spacious and very clean and inviting. You will not find showers due to city codes. There is no dog run inside the property. This is a gated and walled facility, with surveillance cameras. The gates are closed from 5 pm to 9 am Monday – Saturday and all day Sunday. You will need a code to enter the property.

C) Amenities: ⛺️⛺️⛺️⛺️/5 

The clubhouse as I mentioned was inviting with a lounge area, big screen tv, books, foosball, and pool table. There are a number of tables and chairs for gatherings. The bathrooms are spotless, while the laundry area is small it is in very good working order. The pool is very small but for the 23 sights, it’s a good size to meet the needs to cool off on a hot day. TV channels are limited to your batwing or satellite, there is no cable. Wi-fi is free available and will serve you well for email and such but not streaming.

D) Location: ⛺️⛺️⛺️⛺️⛺️/5 

This park is not for everyone. If you are looking for woods, views of the mountains, birds chirping, and walks in the forest find a different park. This is about location, location, location. Our intention was to stay two days in Tucson and take in Saguaro East and West. Maybe do a  scenic drive and differently find a good restaurant or two. The park is conveniently located just south of I-10 in downtown Tucson. You are in the heart of the city and you know it. So for that reason, I gave this a 5 tent location review. This park met our needs perfectly with the exception of one thing. Just ask Zoey…..

E) Paw – Friendliness – 🐾🐾/5

Zoey gave this park, a big paws down. There is no place inside the compound to relieve the dog. You will need to head out the gate to the front of the property near the main street and relieve them in the stone scape. Now Zoey is a TN girl and she likes to have a little grass between her paws when doing her business. Needless to say, this became an issue. We solved the grass issue by heading to a public park about a couple of blocks from the RV park. This is a city area, we felt safe but I will admit the stray dogs and a handful of homeless made us a little tense.

We also like to get a good walk in the morning. I accomplished this by walking the neighborhoods around the RV park. During the daylight hours, this was no problem. I might hesitate to do this late at night.

Wanderers Overall Rating:  ⛺️⛺️⛺️⛺️/5 

Wanderers Take:

This was our first visit to Tucson and this part of the country. The RV Park was important to us due to the longer drive times we were experimenting with. I wanted a location that would be close to the highway with easy access to that highway. In addition, we planned to visit Saguaro National Park and Arizona/Sonora Desert Museum. Both these locations were very close to the RV park.

As I mentioned above the Park is not for everyone. If you are more prone to quiet rural camping with walking trails out your side door this park is not for you. If you want a park that is centrally located to explore the city and its attractions, safe, secure with amenities that support your stay, this is your park.

How About Noise

Being a midtown location near a highway you would expect that the noise level would be rather high. Surprisingly it was not that bad. The park is surrounded by apartment buildings and that may have kept the city noise down. Don’t get me wrong, we have stayed in a number of midtown locations there is noise but not sleep rattling.

My One Complaint

The big complaint I have about this location is the pet-friendliness of the park. With nowhere inside the compound to relieve the dog, you are forced to head out to the front of the property or down the road to a public park. As for walking the dog as I like to do, you will be walking through neighborhoods that will get your attention. You could stay on the main streets where there is plenty of traffic, eyes, etc to feel a bit more comfortable. If your a city dweller then this will be a moot point. if you are used to a country setting it might be an issue.

Final Look

Overall we enjoyed our stay at this resort park. The daily rates are pretty reasonable considering the location. They have monthly and weekly available if you are staying longer. The park recognizes GoodSam club discounts so you save a little cash there.

We were floored by Saguaro National Park. Never have we seen cactus that big, and so dense. We did not carve out enough time to explore the city or more of the surrounding area. So I will have to update this post when we revisit Tucson, which we definitely will. Here are a few suggestions, all of which we have done with the exception of MT Lemmon Scenic Byway.

Arizona – Sonora Desert Museum 

2021 N Kinney Rd, Tucson, AZ 85743

Web Site: https://www.desertmuseum.org/

Saguaro National Park

Web Site: https://www.nps.gov/sagu/index.htm

Sabino Canyon 

5700 N Sabino Canyon Rd, Tucson, AZ 85750

Web Site: https://www.desertusa.com/azsabino/sabino.html

Mt Lemmon Scenic Byway 

Web Site: https://www.go-arizona.com/Mt-Lemmon-Scenic-Byway/