Encore Paradise RV Resort

We stayed at Encore Paradise RV Resort in Sun City, Arizona. (Campground Reviews listing.)

A nice 55+ community in the Phoenix area, where we spent three months; our longest stay to date. It was ostensibly winter, but had record unseasonal temperatures reaching 105° F!

Dates:

Check in: 2026-01-01

Check out: 2026-03-31

89 nights

Weather:

Partly sunny

High temps 55-105°F, lows 38-69°F

Negligible wind, occasional gusts to 25 MPH

Noise:

Little road noise

Very distant train horn noise

Little neighbor noise

Frequent fighter jet noise weekdays (in flight path for Air Force base)

Site:

#832, back-in, sandy gravel

Needed to disconnect toad, parked beside coach

Somewhat level site; low slope in front; used hydraulic leveling

Sandy gravel driveway about 45 feet long by 18 feet wide

Total site 55 feet deep by 45 feet wide

Just gravel between site on passenger side

Carport on driver side

24 by 8 feet concrete patio

No trees

Clean site

Elevation 1210 feet, front facing south

Utilities:

50 amp power, conveniently located

60 PSI water, conveniently located

Good sewer connection, conveniently located (1 10-foot pipe needed)

Internet (in usage priority order):

Starlink: 105-125 Mbps down, 25-35 Mbps up, 30 ms ping

RoamLink: 21-23 Mbps down, 4-8 Mbps up, 88 ms ping (RoamLink uses whichever is best of AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile)

AT&T: 580-620 Mbps down, 13-17 Mbps up, 35-42 ms ping (I have AT&T on my iPhone)

Campground Wi-Fi: none

Amenities:

Garbage dumpsters

Pool

Cafe (breakfast and lunch, Tuesday to Saturday)

Lots of activities

Campground map:

An interactive map:

Our site:

Since we were there for three months, we set up all the things:

Including making pizza:

Record heat:

A nice thing about this place is that Amazon, UPS, and FedEx delivers directly to the site:

For USPS, they have mailboxes:

They also have a small on-site cafe (that is open to the public, though I doubt many outsiders patronize it); we thought we’d eat there regularly, but actually only went once — not because it was bad, we just never really felt like it (if they had been open for dinner, we might have gone there more):

Cafe menu:

Lots of activities:

A popular pool (that we didn’t use; we’re not really into pools):

RV arrival area:

Water feature at the front of the park:

A nice pond and fountains:

I added a Pokemon Pokestop for that, and the front water features:

Lawn bowls:

Pickleball:

And more:

Garbage:

Recycling:

Propane fill:

The park is split into two parts, the pet area (where people can have dogs) and the non-pet area (where they can’t); we were in the non-pet area, as an indoor-only cat doesn’t count as a “pet” (fair enough; he’s in charge, and we’re his staff):

“Stop; it does matter”:

Free fruit:

Other sites; the vast majority of the community are park models:

Aerial views of our site (a couple of days before departing, after packing up our stuff) and other sites:

Quite a nice community. We’d stay here again. The jets were somewhat annoying, but we got used to them after a while.