Boondocking on Laguna Dam Road, Yuma AZ

Heading south from Quartzsite on Hwy 95, we turned on to East Imperial dam Road, going through the Yuma Proving Grounds, and headed to Mitrry Lake. On freecampsites.net, it gave directions from Quartzsite and Yuma. Curt’s GPS wanted us to go all the way to Yuma to get there, my phone wanted to go through the Proving Ground; once we got to the Mittry Lake sign, we found out why. We had five miles of dirt road to take. Coming from Yuma, it is pavement almost all the way.

*See NOTE below.

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The first half of the road there is no room for camping, and then a few areas popping up the further we went. Toward the end are where most of the campers area, they were pretty close together. There were only a few spots we found with cell service, and they were taken. We kept going, past Betty’s Kitchen sign and then got to a gravel pit area with 3 bar Verizon LTE. There are no signs of no camping, trespassing, etc., so we thought we’d give it a try. Pavement is about a quarter mile away. We didn't know if this area was still included in the Mittry Lake area. 



There is a lot of traffic on this road; some campers, boats, but a lot ATVs driving through. We got a lot of rain one evening, it did help with the dust.

NOTE:  After being here for over a week, a BLM pickup stopped and the gentleman said this area wasn’t owned by the BLM, that it was owned by the Bureau of Reclamation and he didn't know if we could camp there. He said he just didn’t want us to get in trouble. There had been people in the gravel pit behind us working a couple times and nobody ever said anything to us.  So, whether this spot is a legit camping spot? We don’t know. There were a few small campers and pickups there throughout our time there. (Maybe since we were there, they thought it was okay too.)  We did stay almost two weeks with no one asking us to leave. We noticed that there were campers that were still there for a while after we had left.