New to Boondocking near Quartzsite/BLM
We are planning to visit the southwest winter of Jan Feb 2018. When boondocking near Quartzsite we will have solar panels for electricity, but are concerned about where there is enough water to reple...
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I think Daniel's question has been covered, there are 783,961 reasons why, ours is we have been rockhounds on and off for forty years and the school clerk at our daughters elementary school introduced us to the area. She and her husband introduced us to both rockhounding and Q. There are old folk songs about Hi Jolly and the Camel Corp, There were(carted off now) potshards, crystals, agates, jaspers and exploring, oh yeah other like minded folks. We have had second homes in the desert(kids own it now), mountains, and beachfront and our S&B in Eagle Rock. As a John Denver song said "I couldn't love just one kind of woman or drink just one kind of wine". If you don't want to go and join a million of your new BFFs, there are several videos from folks that go every year with some aerial shots of maybe a hundred million or so dollars of rigs. One of the BLM sites is only 18,000 acres and there are six or seven sites in the area.
And for the OP, at The Pit Stop, when you pull in for what ever, someone will ask what you want, if you just want one thing tell them you're there for that, be it water, dump, propane, if you want all three, tell them that and they will put a post-it on your rig with different letters designating what you want and have paid for. It's fun and usually pretty fast.
Some things are a little spendy, beer, ATM fees, groceries and firewood. I'd bring my own firewood, most everything else. I am not sure of the name of the hardware store on Hwy 95 north of town on the west side of the road but the prices there are comparable with the big box stores like HD and Lowes. Nice folks and very helpful.
So there you go, it's big, it's dusty at times, there are a lot of cool people and it is a Gathering.
And for the OP, at The Pit Stop, when you pull in for what ever, someone will ask what you want, if you just want one thing tell them you're there for that, be it water, dump, propane, if you want all three, tell them that and they will put a post-it on your rig with different letters designating what you want and have paid for. It's fun and usually pretty fast.
Some things are a little spendy, beer, ATM fees, groceries and firewood. I'd bring my own firewood, most everything else. I am not sure of the name of the hardware store on Hwy 95 north of town on the west side of the road but the prices there are comparable with the big box stores like HD and Lowes. Nice folks and very helpful.
So there you go, it's big, it's dusty at times, there are a lot of cool people and it is a Gathering.
