STANDARD WASH, Lake Havasu City AZ

STANDARD WASH, Lake Havasu City, AZ

RUN BY:  Bureau of Land Management

LOCATION:  34.398738  -114.171613 south of Lake Havasu City, AZ

UTILITIES: NONE

COST:  NONE

DISCOUNTS:   N/A

OUR RATING (1-5):  Category III.  Rating 3

NOTES:  From what I can tell there is a large area known as Standard Wash.  We spent a night at one area just south of the raceway that was an old gravel pit. The only reason that we stayed there was because we had friends staying there and we stopped to see them as we were passing by.  The first time we stayed in the Standard Wash BLM area was at the coordinates given. This is a dirt road that turns east off of highway 95.  It was pleasant except for the great number of ATV during the day.  I did do a couple of cross-country hikes, avoiding ATV and going where they couldn’t go.  You are up on a ridge, so you have a nice view.  We stayed there two nights.

Environment:   Open desert.

Amenities:  NONE

Dump: NO

Public Water: NO

Toilets: NO

Showers:  NO

Laundry:  NO

Phone Service:  Verizon 4G 3-4bars

Nearest Propane: Lake Havasu City <10 miles.  

Location:  34.398738   -114.171613

Proximity to shopping:  Lake Havasu City

Camping Population:  Some full-timers.  Lots of ATV

Sites:   N/A.  Dispersed camping where you can find it.

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RATING KEY:    category - score 

Categories:  I - established campgrounds where one might spend a vacation or several days

                    II -  boondocking, dry camping where there are no designated sites and no amenities but

                               one might choose to stay for more than a night.

                    III - over-night areas 

You must remember that we are scoring 1 thru 5 according to things which are important to us: the environment, cost, amenities, location, safety, camping population, site, phone service 

* There are people who are not full-timers and van-dwellers by choice. We try hard not to be demeaning or assume that they are bad people but sadly, as you find in the poorer parts of a city, there seems to be more crime. Many call these people van-dwellers. That isn’t really accurate even though they do often live in vans. We know quite a few van-dwellers who have good incomes, are full-timers by choice and prefer a van to other types of vehicles. To try to show some respect for people who have a difficult lot in life, I’m calling them ‘residential campers’.  It is only when you get a high proportion of residential campers in an area that you find an increase in petty theft, etc.