Flagstaff KOA Holiday Reviews

We stayed here for 4 nights while in Flagstaff for a wedding. Unless you're approaching the campground from the north on Highway 89, you'll be making a left turn into the campground at a traffic light with no green arrow and limited long-range visibility of oncoming traffic, so prepare to be patient. The campground is located within a lightly forested area at the base of Elden Mountain. Most of the roads within the campground are one-way roads, marked as such on the campground map but generally not on the roads themselves. Some roads are paved while others are gravel. All of the RV sites have gravel pads, a picnic table, and an elevated charcoal grill. Some sites are equipped with extras such as fire pits, patios, and cable hookups. We arrived about a half-hour after the check-in time of noon. The RVers in the spot originally assigned to us had trouble with their rig and hadn't left yet, so the campground staff quickly found a new spot to put us in within the same section of FHU pull-through sites with cable TV hookups at the north end of the campground. After escorting us to site 168, our guide told us to turn on all the breakers on our power pole (not just the 50 amp one we were going to use), or we might not get power. We did that and had no power issues during our stay, but the pump handle style water spigot at our site would occasionally experience severe drops in water pressure. We eventually figured out that this only happened when the handle was fully engaged in the up position; when we pulled it down a slight bit, the pressure would remain consistent. The sites in this section of the campground are pretty un-level: we had to put two boards under the driver's side tires to get close to level, but a lot of other folks had it much worse, using blocks stacked one to two feet high to get level or using their leveling jacks to lift their front or rear tires several inches off the ground. There are quite a few tall trees in this section, which provide shade but can also complicate maneuvering in and out of sites. We could not have made the left turn out of our site with our large rig: fortunately we were able to exit through the empty site in front of us, otherwise we would have been backing out. This particular KOA currently has no swimming pool, but it has many of the other typical KOA amenities like a jumping pillow, a playground, a store within the office, bathrooms within the office building and another building that also had a laundry room, and large tricycles for rent. There is also a permanent food truck on site that wasn't open yet. The propane refill station is located away from the office on the end of a row of sites, with no real place to park nearby without blocking a road. There is also a dump station along the official "exit" road out of the park, but most folks exit via the entrance road to take advantage of the traffic light There are two adjacent dog parks at the front of the campground with separate entrance gates and mostly dirt and grass surfaces. They receive some light at night but you'll want to take your flashlight with you. Another good option for walking dogs is along the hiking trail that starts at the north end of the park. That segment of trail also connects to longer public hiking trails, including a steep one that goes to the top of Elden Mountain. In terms of cell service, I could not get enough bandwidth on my Verizon Jetpack with MIMO antenna to even run a speed test, no matter what time of day it was, so we ended up using the cable hookup to watch TV (the cable picture was pixelated at times but usually watchable if you're not a high-resolution snob) In contrast, the best speed I saw on my AT&T smartphone with 5G was 93 Mbps down and 14 up. The campground WiFi clocked in with 7 down and 1 up.

Fantastic campground. Very well established. Clean and quiet.