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.