Arizona

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Arizona (AZ) is a state in the United States. This page collects resources you may need for travel, camping, and nomadic living in Arizona. (Neighboring states are California to the west, Nevada to the northwest, Utah to the north, New Mexico to the east, and Colorado to the northeast. Mexico is to the south.)

Traveling in Arizona

Wikivoyage: Arizona
Wikipedia: Arizona

Local Climate

Camping and Parking in Arizona

Regulations in Arizona

Arizona parking regulations:

  • Ajo in Pima county issues "littering" tickets for depositing trash in park trash receptacles.[1]
  • Coolidge bans "untended, unattached trailers specifically, city-wide, but can include unattached work trailers, off-highway vehicles on trailers, boats on trailers and RVs that are parked along the sides of roads continuously and for long periods of time (possibly longer than 48hrs)."[2]
  • Flagstaff: forbids "living quarters" use of RVs parked in residential areas zones[3]; forbids overnight parking in commercial zones[4]; forbids commercial owners from posting "camping allowed" signs[5]; forbids parking in city-owned parking lots.[6]; passed an ordinance to let residents write parking violation tickets to each other[7]; Unofficially, Flagstaff is infamous for being anti-RV.[8][9][10],[11]
  • Kingman forbids street parking of RVs and similar vehicles.[12]
  • Phoenix prohibits camping on city lands, and also has a sit/lie law.[13]
  • In Sierra Vista "it is unlawful for any trailer, camper, mobile home, boat, trailer house, motor home, or other recreational vehicle to be parked in a public street, alley, or other public place for more than five days within a 30-day period."[14]
  • In Yuma overnight camping by any person, whether or not such camping takes place in a motor vehicle, shall be prohibited upon any public or private land, which property is not licensed by the city as a campground [15]
  • Check our parking regulations page for general information and disclaimers.

State and local regulations:

Search other resources

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Channels in Arizona

We currently have 26 channels with content produced in this state:

Places

On the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation, the Quetchen tribe offers long-term camping permits, $150 for 3 months as of December 2024.