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Seriously one of the most beautiful SPs we’ve stayed out! Highly recommend if you’re wanting to stay on the Tucson area!

My one WARNING in an other wise very favorable review.... Beware of burrs. After our first walk and finding burrs inside our rig, we checked our socks and pants legs for burrs, and took our shoes off outside then thoroughly checked them top to bottom. OK, that's done. We really enjoy this park and it's great views of the Catalinas. Large, level sires in a desert environment, so not much in the way of trees (it's not the Catalina Forest😎) Great hiking and even horseback riding available. If you are interested in local theater and music, the Gaslight Music Hall is just outside the park. Plus some great opportunities for dining out, in the mall across from the park entrance. And the first Saturday music in the park is an added bonus.

This is a very nice state park. We were there in mid-May and so many of the cacti were in bloom. We did not use the public facilities so no opinion there. We enjoyed the spacious sites and watching the prairie dogs all over the place! The park workers in the office were very nice and helpful! It’s very convenient to shopping and whatever else you might want to do in Tucson.

Great State Park. This is our 2nd stay here. Pretty large sites. Seemed more " groomed " last year. Our site had a bunch of cigarette butts in the grill, pretty gross. I did clean them out. mostly just dirt in the area around the picnic table... We were lucky enough to be in AZ this year during the " superbloom" ! We hiked different trails each day enjoying many different flowers. We enjoyed live music in the park on Saturday night of our stay. Located off of very busy N. Oracle road. Lots of Big Box stores in the area. Did not use park facilities. Beautiful view of the Santa Catalina Mountains from our site.

My wife and I consider this one of the best state park campgrounds we have visited. Good facilities, good hiking trails a good bicycling opportunities both inside and outside the park. We have stayed here three times in our 26 ft MotorHome and will return again.

An ugly campground set down in the bottomlands in a floodplain. No screening of any kind between the sites, but at least the sites are large. Most people here seem to use the bathhouse, even the big RVs with big holding tanks. We don’t. It was disconcerting to watch people in various states of undress, including slippers and bathrobes and pajamas, tramping constantly thru the grounds. If you are lucky enough to get a site on the outside edge you will at least be spared having to watch the parade back and forth to the bathhouse. They need more dumpsters, which were full most of the time. With the heavy rains the campground was full of 3-foot-tall weeds, and the poor hosts were having to struggle with push mowers from the 1970s. No way they could get everything mowed so in addition to everything else, the campground was full of weeds. Yes there are plenty of trails in the adjacent mountains, but this review is about the RV park, not the State Park as a whole. Just not an attractive place to stay. At least the sites were large.

Wow! What an awesome park! We came here for birding and hiking and were not disappointed. We stayed a week with a beautiful view of the Santa Catalina Mts. at our doorstep. We put out a humming bird feeder: visitors included Anna's, Broad Billed, Black Chinned, Verdin, and even the Gila Woodpecker. We went on bird tours, hiked, listened to live music in the park, and the Tucson Astronomical Society brought their telescopes for a star party. Check the Catalina SP website for all their activities. We will be back to this park next year, maybe a bit earlier like mid-March. Oh and because we were there for a week, we drove up to Mt. Lemmon for spectacular views. We toured Biosphere2, which was interesting and only about 20 min. North of the park.

There are great mountain views here and hiking trails. There are also a LOT of people. Privacy is something you won't have. We had people taking shortcuts from trails right through our campsite throughout the day every day. And how about the road noise - you'll be staying at the edge of a major highway so you can hear the traffic. The campground is set among creepy looking blackened twisty trees right out of the second Lara Croft movie. A Major shopping center is right across the street, not something we wanted. Several of the sites around the perimeter are very spacious, if you can reserve them. No sewer hookups.

Always full, been here last couple of years. Reserve early, Arizona State Parks allows a year in advance, and if you cancel, only a $15 fee. So, people book ahead, but keep trying, with the easy cancellation policy, you may find an opening. Restrooms and showers are very nice and clean. Volunteers clean them daily. Just about everyone here has a dog, and even though they require you to pick up after them, they don' provide bags or drop offs, so some people pick and others don't. There are great hikes to be had, close to shopping and a movie theater, and restaurants. But the best thin about this park are the beautiful Catalina Mountains! Coyotes are getting thick and are in camp spots, watch out for little dogs. It's a great place and we'll be back.

We called for a reservation and were told it wasn't necessary so we rolled on up there from Tuscon Mt. Park. When we arrived they asked for our reservation number, which we obviously didn't have, so we were turned back;full Park. It seems that the left hand knoweth not what the right hand doeth. So beware.