North Rim Campground (AZ)

Check-in was easy. Everyone was friendly. The campground was nice, and we appreciated the RV dump station.

The spot is perfect, quiet with a table and a fireplace. You have a path just nearby and nice view of the Grand Canyon.

Location was fantastic. Commodities too limited (few toilets compared with the number of residents). Our tent site was very steep, too steep for a tent of 5 people. And our neighbours were quite noisy the first night (a Friday evening). Luckily they left and the rest of the stay was better.

Nice shaded campground. Good bathrooms, good water sources. Good access to canyon views

Excellent

This campground is always nice. Quiet, convenient amenities, away from the madding crowds of the south rim, and close enough to the Losge and the canyon rim.

We loved the campground location amongst the Ponderosa Pines and very close (short walk) to the Grand Canyon Rim for both sunrise and sunset views. The camp host was very helpful with ideas for trails to hike and drives to views. The camp was very clean and quiet.

The stay was very pleasant. In the middle of the woods with electricity and good sanitary facilities. The pitches are far enough apart to ensure privacy and are wonderfully quiet. Just a few steps from the Gran Canyon and the lodge with a wonderful view of the canyon. We loved being there and found it very pleasant, young and old.

The campsite was excellent and close to some magnificent views of the Grand Canyon. The biggest issue we had was having toddlers there in August during the monsoon season, they opened the windows and it rained everywhere. Also I have to say the nights were way colder than we expected. However, we will definitely be returning in a few years!

We first came to the North Rim in July, 2011. Again in August, 2024, we brought our family and friends to experience the canyon again. We stayed 6 days. There is a ton to do; hiking biking, relaxing. A lot of the amenities are the same from 2011. The new thing for us were the flush toilet bathrooms. A very welcome upgrade from the pit toilets of the past. They were always clean which I honestly wasn't expecting for a campground and at least for our part of the campground people seemed respectful enough to keep it pretty clean after use. Again and sorry fellow humans, I wasn't expecting that either. We stayed in sites 65, 68, 70, 72, and 26. We had a large group. Campsites were spacious enough for a couple of tents at each site and the parking pads suited our needs. They tended to fit larger vehicles than rated on the site. However, some of the spots had very tight exits where pulling out trailers is difficult to impossible. Site 68 fit that description.

If you are looking to travel here in August, I would be wary. It is monsoon season in Arizona and even though the forecast didn't call for rain, it rained every afternoon for a few hours. Temps would drop from the mid to upper 70s down to mid to low 50s. If you're tent camping, making sure they don't leak. I did not enjoy the cold rain at all. Most of us were not prepared for that. So again, be prepared. Maybe it doesn't rain for you, but it did for us all 6 days.

All in all, I would for sure highly recommend the North Rim Campground, minus the rain. It was a great experience and the best way to see the Grand Canyon. As an aside, I don't know if I could recommend the lodge food. I heard it was flavorless and terrible. That might explain why when we visited the lodge a couple of times, there were very few people in the restaurant.

Happy Camping!