Best Campground at Grand Canyon?

There is only Trailer Village in the park that has full hookups. I suggest you make reservations soon, as most are reserved early.
Just south of the park in Tusayan is Camper Village with full hookups. Reserve as early as possible.
The next closest parks with full hookups would be in Williams, 57 miles south of the park.

There are no full hookups in the park on the north rim. The closest would be in Jacob Lake, 42 miles north.

Are you planning on the South Rim? Or would you consider the North Rim. 95% of all traffic is to the South Rim.

Trailer Village is your best bet - full hookups and IN the park. nothing fancy or special about the cg, but you can't beat the location. You can pick up the shuttle bus right in the cg. Like another poster said, get your reservations as early as the system lets you.

Trailer Village. When we were at Grand Canyon did not spend much time in the trailer park. Too much to see of the canyon so did not need any amenities at the trailer park.

Use the bus service it is great.

The canyon is best at day break and sunset.

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If this is your first visit to the Canyon we would recommend the South Rim. We love the North Rim because of less tourists but then we've gone to the Canyon many times. Another vote for Trailer Village at the South Rim. It's near the Canyon rim, the free shuttle stops at the entrance and so convenient for everything.

We wouldn't recommend staying in Williams and taking the tourist train to the Canyon although some folks like it. It's across flat land - not scenic - and you would only have a few hours for visiting the Canyon and you'd have to return to Williams.

We stayed at the Grand Canyon Railroad RV Resort in Williams. It's a huge parking lot type "campground" with full h'ups but NO shade. It's almost right downtown so you can walk to the grocery and restaurants. The train to the canyon leaves right from the park and you can get tickets on their website for a site and train tickets. We used it as a base to drive up to Utah and over to Las Vegas. It's a great place and has a nice golf course north of town as well.

2gypsies wrote:
If this is your first visit to the Canyon we would recommend the South Rim. We love the North Rim because of less tourists but then we've gone to the Canyon many times. Another vote for Trailer Village at the South Rim. It's near the Canyon rim, the free shuttle stops at the entrance and so convenient for everything.

We wouldn't recommend staying in Williams and taking the tourist train to the Canyon although some folks like it. It's across flat land - not scenic - and you would only have a few hours for visiting the Canyon and you'd have to return to Williams.

We've done the train from Williams, but you can book an overnight stay and then you'll have quite a bit of time to look around.

The whole area is full of neat thing to see and do. We always stay in the Flagstaff area more long term which allows us to visit the Verde Valley, Red rocks of Sedona, Old time Cowboy bars at Prescott, Ghost town at Jerome, Indian ruins, volcano ashe, and painted desert At Flagstaff, meteorcrater and petrified rocks East of Flagstaff, strange things at Tuba City, and Grand Canyon.

Too many thing to see and do around these parts in just a couple of days... Making a base camp and staying a couple of weeks was always best solution for us. Don't you dare get this close to the RED ROCK Canyons and mountains outside Sedona and not go see them...

You also need to get a picture of you and your camper along the infamous ROUTE 66 in this area...

Roy Ken