Quartzsite, AZ – Out and About

The Big Tent RV Show

The Quartzsite Sports, Vacation & RV Show, known as “The Largest Gathering of RVers in the world”, is held every January and attracts lots and lots of people and RVs to attend this special show. I think the real reason everyone shows up is more for the atmosphere, the meeting of friends, and the social events rather than the shopping but shopping is always good. It is one big gathering but handled very smoothly by the town. Yes, there can be some traffic jams here and there and some long lines BUT nothing like the bit cities. A fun event to attend and meet up with others with similar interests. You have to attend at least once if you are an RVer since it is an “RV Rite of Passage”! Go and enjoy!!

The Big Top

Some turkey legs

Opening day (Saturday) – The following Monday was more crowded

Chocolate covered marshmallows

Lots of cooking demonstrations

Crazy RV lights

I love Shark Tank

How many pair should I buy?

The famous Beer Bellys – Adult Day Care

Ice cream maker

I need a new hat

One of the many

4WD’ing around Quartzsite

One day a group of us went for a small caravan tour on some jeep roads around and about the BLMs in the Quartzsite area. Luckily we had the “Howland Police” to lead our way.

The small caravan

Our escort – Steve

Four vehicles headed out full of people and dogs to tour the area with the first stop being the two stone cabins of Joseph Cone who was a 1971 veteran, a local artist, and the man known to wear skirts in the summer. Anyway, the smaller cabin was the one he lived in and the larger one was his workshop. He lived there until his death at 75 and is now buried in the town cemetery (Hi Jolly Cemetery). We stopped and walked around, saw the nice vista of Dome Rock BLM, and posed for a few group photos.

Heading to the stone cabins

Joseph Cone’s cabins

Dale, the photographer, preparing for group shot

View from cabins to Dome Rock BLM

From there we headed cross country to the morteros and petrographs along Tyson Wash. A few roads here and a few roads there, up and down, and soon we arrived and toured around the area.

Heading across country with La Posa BLM in the distance

Which way should we go?

Morteros

Where’s Waldo? Find the petroglyphs.

The petroglyphs

Dale explaining the petroglyphs

A fun, dusty day with some great roads to tool around on along with some great company. Thanks Steve!

Flying – Quartzsite Town – QPR RC Airport

Quartzsite has a nice RC Airport by the Town Park where you can bring your remote controlled airplane at and do a few spins around the airfield. It has a nice paved runway with a few gates and some tables set out to work on your aircraft. It can get very crowded on still mornings but some days no problem.

The entrance

One of the gates and the runway

Great tables for working

A cool jet was flying