Small Home – Big Yard

Cattail Cove Campground Map

We’re parked in pull-through site #46 at Cattail Cove State Park.  Our site offers 30A electric and water.  A dump station is located along the main entrance road.  Cattail is about 25 miles north of Parker and about 15 miles south of Lake Havasu City, along the southern end of Lake Havasu.  This park of 62 RV camp sites also includes a beautiful beach area, cactus garden, a boat launch and a some boat-in campsites. Verizon speeds run along at 27MB down and 14 MB up.  This signal must come from  cell towers across the river in California because our phones are showing Pacific time.  Our antenna found no OTA TV signals.

Cattail Cove State Park, site #46

All sites along the main entrance road are pull-throughs, the majority of the other site are back-in.  The best sites on this upper loop are the even number pull-throughs 36-50.  53 is a nice private corner site, however apparently reserved for traveling park rangers or contractors.  For beach views and access, sites 1-5 are perfect, with #5 probably being the longest and best.  On the lower loop, even numbered sites 6-20 are excellent since there are no sites directly behind.

Cattail Cove State Park, site #53

Cattail Cove State Park, site #1

Cattail Cove State Park, site #4

Cattail Cove State Park, site #5

Cattail Cove State Park, site #6

Cattail Cove State Park, site #20

During our stay we also visited River Island State Park, about 12 miles south of Cattail Cove and Buckskin Mountain State Park, another 2 miles south.  Both of these parks are beautiful parks, along the river (versus Lake Havasu).  However, we think Cattail Cove is the most private, quiet and scenic.  While exploring these parks, we crossed the river at the city of Parker and drove through some of the RV resorts on the California side.  All of these resorts seem old and rundown.  We crossed back over into Arizona via the massive Parker Dam which impounds the nearly 45 mile long Lake Havasu.

River Island State Park

Buckskin Mountain State Park

Parker Dam, Lake Havasu, Arizona

From Cattail Cove we’re headed to The Islander Resort in Lake Havasu City.  More from there…