Ponderosa (AZ)

Quiet, clean campground. Just we look for. Camp host George was friendly and helpful.

Probably won't be back, campground was destroyed by all the tree cutting and they left a mess with lots of debris everywhere! Could have at least cleaned cleaned this up! It is obvious nobody wants to go there anymore because I was the only one in the campground the night I stayed there.

The campground hosts were very helpful and accommodating. They maintained the site daily and were a pleasure to deal with.

Group Site E
This is our second time at Ponderosa Campgrounds and our first time at Group Site E. Absolutely loved the site. We were a group of 5 families. Each family had their own mini site with tent area and the center loop/main gathering area worked perfect for our group. The kids had a blast running, playing and exploring. Great time!

We all agreed that we will come back.

Highly recommend!
When we arrived, the signs made it easy to find our spot, which was already tagged with our name on the post.
The campsite was very clean. The picnic bench looked practically brand new, as did the bear box storage (which was very convenient).
Bathrooms were also very clean and appeared to be evenly spaced out throughout the campgrounds.
We stayed in A-09 which is the second loop from the front. There was some highway noise at night, nothing annoying, but when we come back I’ll reserve a spot further back.

Making the reservation was simple and fast. The Ponderosa Campground was clean and well kept. The campsite I picked was very large with plenty of flat area with a nice sturdy aluminum picnic bench., and a fire ring. The bathrooms were clean and stocked with toilet paper daily. And, there was also a dumpster near my site to toss the trash in. It’s only a 20 min drive to town if you need supplies. Two thumbs up!

We did not stay at Ponderosa because we had problems with our motorhome. Tried to cancel online but the process was so complicated we gave up.

Site had a good distance away from others and very walkable to the bathrooms. Heavily treed, nice table and fire pit. Third time here and we’ll be back next year!

Beautiful campsite. A little close to the freeway in the A loop with the highway close by.

We had an enjoyable time. The host was very pleasant. Our site was nice, however towards the last evening and morning, there were a bunch of bees that appeared. 3 different people in our group were stung. 1 person was stung 3 times. We made sure to toss our garbage nightly, wipe down all our tables after each meal, etc. and still had this bee issue. However this didn't occur until the park cleared out from the weekend. The site on the other side of the hill also stated they had issues with bees all of a sudden. On another note, we are disappointed to hear that SEVERAL/Majority of their trees are marked to be cut down. In the site we stayed at it was pretty much ALL of them. Its disappointing as we already had to chase down the shade as it moved throughout the day. (The weekend we went it was pushing almost 100). To see the trees they planned to cut practically leaves ZERO shade in our site. The host informed us that it was suppose to happen in November, I believe. She mentioned contacting the right group to register a complaint and attempt to stop this from happening. Hearing that all these trees are to be cut, we will probably never reserve/stay at this location again, as there will be practically no trees left and no shade. The crazy thing is, there did not appear to be any reserved sites available that upcoming weekend. I am going to guess the cutting down of the trees will effect the future booking total for this campground, which is really sad.