We stayed at the Grand Canyon Railway RV Park in Williams, Arizona. (Campground Reviews listing.)

The main reason for staying here was to take a train trip to the Grand Canyon. This RV park is part of a complex that includes a full hotel, restaurants, the train station, pet boarding, and more. Stay tuned for a forthcoming post about our train adventure.

Dates:

• Check in: 2022-03-30
• Check out: 2022-04-10
• 11 nights

Weather:

• Sunny
• High temps ranging between 55 and 71°F, lows around 31-38°F
• Occasionally windy

Noise:

• Negligible road noise
• Nearby train noise; freight train tracks next to park
• Mostly quiet neighbors, other than a bunch of kids

Site:

• #402, pull-through, asphalt, didn’t need to disconnect toad
• Parked truck behind coach
• Medium site: about 70 feet long by 25 feet wide
• Not entirely level
• Full hookups:
• 50 amp power conveniently located
• Low water pressure, 32 PSI water, conveniently located
• Good sewer connection, conveniently located
• Picnic table on gravel

Internet:

• Campground Wi-Fi: available, but not used
• T-Mobile: 6-41 Mbps down, 5-33 Mbps up, 40-60 ms ping
• AT&T: 8 Mbps down, 6 Mbps up, 47 ms ping
• Verizon: 54-85 Mbps down, 25-46 Mbps up, 50-160 ms ping
• Some impressive numbers for T-Mobile and Verizon there!

Amenities:

• Garbage and recycling dumpsters
• Indoor heated pool and hot tub (didn’t use)
• The usual other stuff we didn’t use

Here’s the review Jenn wrote on Campground Reviews:

 

Convenient to Grand Canyon and Route 66

 

We stayed here in order to take the train up to the Grand Canyon and it was very convenient for that. Check-in was fast and easy before we headed over to our site. Sites are narrow, with a strip of volcanic rock and a picnic table between them. Had a difficult time getting the motorhome level front to back and had to manually adjust, as the automatical levelers could not handle it. Our neighbor’s site was so bad that their front wheels were off the ground. Lots of folks complain about the BNSF freight trains that roll through at all hours. I didn’t notice them most of the time, but there were one or two instances in the early morning (5 am-ish) where the drivers would get a little heavy-handed on the horn. If you’re a light sleeper, be sure to bring earplugs and your white noise machine. We camped at Grand Canyon Railway RV Park in a Motorhome. 

 

 The weather forecast for our stay:

Here’s the forecast after that; we were super glad that we left on Sunday, before the snow and really cold weather on Tuesday:

The park map, with our site indicated:

Satellite view of the RV park and hotel, and part of downtown Williams:

A closer view of the RV park:

Sign for Grand Canyon Railway:

RV check in; several lanes for RVs:

RV park check in and office:

Our site:

As mentioned, there is a freight train track next to the park; here’s a view out our window of a train going by:

Our site and others:

A similar angle pic from just before we left, it had emptied out quite a bit:

Back to the campground tour:

Amenities:

Laundry:

Grill and tables:

Fire pit:

Playground:

Games:

There was also a full hotel; here’s the lobby:

We picked up our train tickets for the Grand Canyon railway from the on-site station:

A train model outside the station:

Photo op:

Stands for the pre-train cowboy show (see a forthcoming post):

The Williams train station:

A steam train outside the station: