Youthful 55+ parks in Arizona
My senior dad used to joke that the definition of “old” was always ten years older than he was. So if I ask a 75 year old if a park with an average age of 77 is full of old people, he’d probably say ...
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There is always a large turnover of park models each year in the park where we have ours. Often one of a couple will die and the other moves in with kids, etc. Sometimes they sell the units very cheaply (that's how we got ours) or the units are so old they are 'sold' to a removal outfit. Then the park has a new site for RVs for the coming year and that site may become a park model again or may not, just depends. The parks need to have a certain number of RV sites to remain under the taxing area of an RV park not a mobile home park.
We don't do a lot in the park because to us the 'reigning clique' is too old and inhospitable. But then we like jazz, not C&W, don't play cards, don't drink to excess and stagger around the park at 7:00 pm, etc. We do visit many of the arts centers in the valley, usually have 2 or 3 concerts at the Musical Instrument Museum, a couple at the Mesa Arts Center, or Scottsdale, or Chandler, etc. We have a lot of things to do during our time here, and then in the evening we come home for the night. This is our recharge time (including medical appointments, etc) before heading out each spring for more adventures. Really look at what you like to do and then find the area where those things will be available. For us it was the Phoenix area and there were many more choices of parks in Mesa than elsewhere in the Valley. We spent a couple of years doing a week or two in many of the parks to find the ones we liked, gradually increasing to 2, 3, 4 months before buying our park model for our winter recharge.
We don't do a lot in the park because to us the 'reigning clique' is too old and inhospitable. But then we like jazz, not C&W, don't play cards, don't drink to excess and stagger around the park at 7:00 pm, etc. We do visit many of the arts centers in the valley, usually have 2 or 3 concerts at the Musical Instrument Museum, a couple at the Mesa Arts Center, or Scottsdale, or Chandler, etc. We have a lot of things to do during our time here, and then in the evening we come home for the night. This is our recharge time (including medical appointments, etc) before heading out each spring for more adventures. Really look at what you like to do and then find the area where those things will be available. For us it was the Phoenix area and there were many more choices of parks in Mesa than elsewhere in the Valley. We spent a couple of years doing a week or two in many of the parks to find the ones we liked, gradually increasing to 2, 3, 4 months before buying our park model for our winter recharge.
