Featured amenities
Pet Friendly
About Painted Rock Petroglyph Campground
Seasonal information
2026 Season availability
Open year round
This campground is open year round, providing flexibility for your stay.
Campground Amenities
Most popular amenities
Pet friendly
Pets and Policies
- Pet friendly
Reviews (386)
What Guests Are Saying
Painted Rock Petroglyph Campground offers spacious sites, stunning views, and a peaceful atmosphere, making it a great destination for campers, especially those with large rigs. Visitors appreciate the interesting petroglyphs, clean facilities, and helpful camp hosts. While some noted the need for improved restroom facilities and a more straightforward payment process, the overall experience is highly positive, highlighting the campground as a tranquil retreat worth revisiting.
What Guests Are Saying
Painted Rock Petroglyph Campground offers spacious sites, stunning views, and a peaceful atmosphere, making it a great destination for campers, especially those with large rigs. Visitors appreciate the interesting petroglyphs, clean facilities, and helpful camp hosts. While some noted the need for improved restroom facilities and a more straightforward payment process, the overall experience is highly positive, highlighting the campground as a tranquil retreat worth revisiting.
Review Summary
Jean H
February 12, 2023
Very quiet and dispersed campground with large sites. Very convent access to the petroglyph trail and dirt roads for mountain biking. Only criticism is there are just two vault toilets so they are a long walk from some of the sites.
Sam L
February 12, 2023
This is a basic BLM campground. It used to be a AZ state park but closed when the lake unit of the park was closed due to pesticide contamination. BLM has taken it over and manages it well. Clean sites and no amenities other than pit toilets and very solid picnic tables.
The real thing about this park is the Petroglyphs. An incredible number of glyphs cover all the boulders on the South face of a little hill in the park. These glyphs are right in front of you. Short level walks from the day-use area and modest walks from the 50ish campsites. All sites well separated.
Current camp host very nice and knowledgeable.
Just don't get here in the dark. We did due to extra delays and it took us a while to find the CG and our site. But in the end we had no problem. We came for the petroglyphs but will use the site in the future as a way station.
Great night sky and met astronomers from Tucson hoping to photograph Comet ZTF.
Greg S
February 22, 2023
We liked this spot, sites are in the open but well spaced. Very quite at night
Greg S
February 22, 2023
We liked this spot, sites are in the open but well spaced. Very quite at night
Kevin S
February 23, 2023
We only spent one evening here but enjoyed the stay. It was nice and quiet. Evenings were a bit cold.
Both trash dumpsters were overflowing.
Kevin S
February 23, 2023
We only spent one evening here but enjoyed the stay. It was nice and quiet. Evenings were a bit cold.
Both trash dumpsters were overflowing.
Rick J
February 27, 2023
Excellent campground, roomy sites and plenty of peace and quiet.
Rick J
February 27, 2023
Excellent campground, roomy sites and plenty of peace and quiet.
Ruth A
March 3, 2023
Quiet, wonderfully spaced sites.
Ruth A
March 3, 2023
Quiet, wonderfully spaced sites.
Location & Directions for Painted Rock Petroglyph Campground
46101 Rocky Point Rd, Gila Bend, AZ 85337 United States
Elevation: 179 ft
Getting There
<p>Exit Interstate 8 at Painted Rock Dam Road/Exit 102, about 12.5 mi west of Gila Bend. Travel north on Painted Rocks Dam Road 10.7 mi to Rocky Point Road. Painted Rocks Petroglyph Site is 0.6 mi west of Painted Rock Dam Road on Rocky Point Road....
Exit Interstate 8 at Painted Rock Dam Road/Exit 102, about 12.5 mi west of Gila Bend. Travel north on Painted Rocks Dam Road 10.7 mi to Rocky Point Road. Painted Rocks Petroglyph Site is 0.6 mi west of Painted Rock Dam Road on Rocky Point Road.
Highway access
The campground is accessible via Interstate 8, with the nearest exit being Painted Rock Dam Road/Exit 102, approximately 12.5 miles east of the campground.
Policies & Rules
Safety & rules
- Take pictures only; do not disturb fragile features.
Utilities
- No water is available at the campground.
- No electrical hook-ups are provided at the campground.
- No dump station is available at the campground.
Accessibility
- Cell phone service is unreliable at the campground; plan accordingly.
Wildlife & food storage
- Do not approach or disturb wildlife for your safety.
Fires & fuel
- No firewood is available for sale; plan accordingly for campfires.
- Fire restrictions may apply; check for current rules before starting a fire.
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Last updated: October 7, 2026
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