Continuing our beeline across the southern U.S. on I-10, we stayed at the Tucson / Lazydays KOA Resort located in the heart of downtown Tucson, Arizona.  We stayed here from 16-22 January 2024 and averaged $107 a night.  

Why We Stayed Here

We stayed at this KOA to visit Mick’s Aunt. This highly-rated KOA was the closest campground to her house. 

Key Points About this Campground

  • A variety of FHU site types to choose from
  • Military veterans, service men and women, police, firefighters and first responders receive 10% off their reservation. 
  • Cement pads, picnic table, and fire pit
  • Sites that will handle big rigs
  • Security
  • Close to all the major amenities
  • Dog friendly with several fenced dog areas
  • RV Tech availability

Campground Review

We followed the website instructions to the campground (CG) by taking I-10 Exit 164B versus our RV GPS and Waze, which wanted us to get off sooner. After driving that route while staying here, we discovered that route would have been good as well. Check-in was easy and informative. We then drove ourselves to FHU pull-through site 1505 with a patio and fire feature. We maneuvered to get our 10’ sewer hose to fit between our two dump valves as the utilities are centered on the pad. This KOA is a true resort with major amenities, such as a pool, putt-putt golf course, pickleball, restaurant, and planned activities. At check-in we received a Tengo Internet WiFi code, so we tried it out. We were able to do sporadic email and texting. We used our Starlink the rest of the time as we were able to get a good shot of the north sky. We got 5 bars on Verizon. Water pressure in our site was good at about 50 psi. As we are dog people, we enjoyed walking our pups to the fenced dog areas and letting them run. In the front of the CG by the gate there’s a huge 1 to 2-acre fenced dog park. In the northwest corner of the CG, there’s another, but much smaller, fenced dog area, and then another even smaller fenced dog area around the corner from our site. They have a variety of sites with various amenities. As we have family in the area, we would stay here again. The next time we would get one of the sites with a fenced dog area, such as 1476-1479, which has a fire feature and a fenced Paw Pen around the patio. There are covered sites under the solar panels, but we would avoid those areas as pigeons are roosting above. Four RV techs were staying at the CG with signs in front of their campsites while we were there. The week in January we were here, we were able to get some work done on short notice. The CG website has good pics of their wide variety of sites and an expandable site map that identifies amenities. We are not normally high-dollar “resort” campers, but this CG was impressive.

Attractions

Dawg Haus Rating

We publish campground reviews on RV Life Campground Reviews, Campendium, The Dyrt, and RV Parky. To date, we have provided over 200 reviews on private and public campgrounds. Here’s our opinion and rating based on what we like and dislike about a particular campground. We rate campgrounds differently depending on if we are just stopping for an overnighter or a few-day rester or if it’s a destination-type campground. Our subjective ratings are: The Best (Five Paws), Very Good (Four Paws), Good (Three Paws), It’ll Work (Two Paws), and Not Impressed (One Paw).

Tucson / Lazy Days KOA Resort received our “Very Good” rating. The campground is well run with very friendly and helpful staff. There was decent privacy between sites, and the utilities worked well.  We are not normally amenity/resort types, but we did find the restaurant handy after a long travel day. They filled propane at a fair price. The patio and fire feature site was perfect for entertaining our aunt and cousins. There were a lot of areas to walk our dogs. We were in downtown Tucson, but you wouldn’t know inside this KOA to include feeling safe anytime day or night. 

After Blush

We were a little hesitant to splurge on a week’s stay and glad we did. If we were to come in with friends, buddy sites 1500 and 1501 are really nice with a shared small gazebo with a gas barbecue, sink, and fire feature. Sadly, staying at cheaper campgrounds, especially in large cities, is becoming somewhat undesirable to being downright creepy. The more expensive campgrounds tend to keep out the homeless and the “trailer trash look.”  We used Chris from Top RV Repair who we found when walking the dogs the first day. We were very satisfied with his quick response and thoroughness in diagnosing our air conditioner issues.  Three other RV Techs were staying here and they all seemed pretty good. After coming out from spending the fall and most of the winter on the Oregon Coast, we had the KOA’s RV wash-wax service clean our rig. The price was reasonable for a thorough wash and spray-on wax job. 

Campground Pics

Pull Through Site 1505
Site 1505 Patio with Fire Feature
Site 1505
Campground Map
Info/Rules
Campground View
Pet Paw Site 1477
Pet Paw 1446 Would Be Our Choice Next Time
Cute Little Library

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