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.
