Flagstaff Arizona to Cottonwood Thousand Trails

Flagstaff Arizona to Cottonwood (about 80 miles)

Tuesday September 25 2018

Flagstaff is the gateway to the Grand Canyon which is about 70 miles north. It is a fair sized town/city and is the last fully equipped place to get outfitted before venturing into the northern National Parks. We are going south to the area around Sedona.

Before departing Flagstaff this morning we unhooked the truck and drove to Walmart. I don’t remember what we needed but we left with the normal compliment of Milk, bread, stuff. We weren’t in a hurry this morning as it was only had about 80 miles to our destination.

Cottonwood Thousand Trails Campground pool area

We are camped in a Thousand Trails Campground just outside Cottonwood Arizona. Upon arrival we were most pleasantly surprised at how nice the park is. TT is a timeshare type membership campground with RV parks all over the US. My membership gives us access to 80 parks and we have been to quite a few of them. Some of them are old, tired and neglected, some are ok and a few are nice. This is one of the best TT parks we have been in. I was told the manager has been at this park for 25 years, he’s doing a good job.

Our campsite, this is probably the only grass within a hundred miles!

From our location we plan to visit the surrounding terrain and its towns and cities. We will go as far west as Prescott and northeast to Sedona. They call northern Arizona the high country, I don’t know what they call this region. We traveled an eighteen mile downgrade on I-17 to get here and the terrain is still mountainous, but there are some large valleys here too.

Places we will visit while camped here