North Rim Campground (AZ)

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Right now the campground has no water, no flush toilets. Day hikes on the rim are fabulous!

Campground was nice. Don’t leave any food items out because the ravens will rip open trash bags, items of food and what not to geta free meal. Also make sure you take toilet paper because porta potties by our camp site was completely gone and the camp host doesn’t do their job. Never once did they stop and check to even make sure we paid for our camp spot.

I was expecting a crowd at the north rim campground but it was nearly vacant! The fire from last year wasted the famous lodge and many past services were non existent: no water or gas but the lack of people was fantastic! We did day trips to Cap Royal and Point Imperial: incomparable views and lack of crowds.

Even though the amenities are limited, the experience was amazing. The sites are beautiful with a short trail to the overlook. They have set up portable toilets and the general store is open 9-4. The views from the North Rim outshine the South Rim.

So close to the Canyon walls and the campsite provided plenty of space between sites.

The stars were amazing!

The campground area is beautiful. Tragic about the lodge and the campus because of the fire. The bathroom service was offensive at best.

One of our main reasons for staying in the campground this year was to see exactly what was accurate about the reviews, blogs, and news releases we had read. We have been traveling to the Northrim campground for over 30 years and do it pretty much
Annually. Yes there was some burn, but not nearly as much as we had expected to see. Of course the lodge and surrounding buildings were gone, which was very sad. Surrounding the area of the former lodge and buildings that had burned was a temporary chain-link fence with signs expressly saying do not enter. Of course there were many people hiking around the fence and going where they weren’t supposed to go, but that’s pretty typical. The general store was intact, the gas station was intact, the showers and associated buildings in the area as well as the amphitheater we’re all still intact as we’re all the campsites. Of course there was no water, or sanitary facilities for the RV dump station, nor were there any bathrooms operational-simply porta potties. The people in the store were very helpful and friendly and as might be expected, there wasn’t a whole lot of perishable items for sale in the store nor was there any ice in the ice machine outside. Very few campers in the sites and it was very very quiet, exactly what you go to the Northrim to experience, needless to say we were very happy and had a great time.
We will be back again next year with or without the lodge. One of the best experiences we’ve had at the Northrim.!!

North Rim is still recovering from the fire that destroyed the lodge and closed so many trails. There is no water. The bathrooms are porta-potties. That being said, the trails that were open were well maintained and not crowded. Point Imperial and Angel’s Window were stunning. It was sad to see the destruction. I only stayed one night but I’m glad I went.