The Saddle Mountain RV Park is right in town and makes an ideal base for your RV trailer rental in Tonopah so you can better explore the surrounding mountains. Offering full hookup sites, the campground sits close to BLM lands (Bureau of Land Management), so there’s plenty of opportunity for hiking, four-wheeling, and star-gazing. Farther down the road but still within town limits, the Stage Stop RV Park offers showers, up to 50 amp electric hookup, and RV dump. It’s the closest campground to the power plants of Palo Verde and Mesquite. Or consider an overnight stay at the White Tank Regional Park to fully explore its trails. Water and electric hookup sites are available along with restrooms and showers. You can also take your camper rental from Tonopah to Buckeye (within 30 miles) for a stay in one of their campgrounds or in a Walmart parking lot. Talk to the store manager to secure a space for a night or two.

For a town its size, Tonopah surprisingly has a handful of places to enjoy casual dining, comfort food, and fast food from national chains. There are also a few grocery stores to buy ingredients from should you wish to cook your favorites from scratch. With several gas stations in town and a truck stop, you can confidently venture out of town and explore neighboring attractions. The nuclear plant is not open to the public for tours. Instead, drive your RV rental from Tonopah to Buckeye for a look inside the Palo Verde Energy Education Center to learn how nuclear power is generated. View displays comparing nuclear power with coal and oil, or stand before a full-scale mock-up of a storage unit that holds used fuel coming out of the reactor. The inside tour explains the operations of the power plant using interpretive panels and audio-visuals. Seek respite from the desert heat and take a splash at the public aquatic center and enjoy winding water slides. A high dive is installed along with a low dive for younger swimmers. The center, managed by the city of Buckeye, has a beachfront and other water features the whole family will enjoy. It only opens in season, starting in May. Step inside the Buckeye Valley Museum and view an impressive collection of pre-Columbian pottery, local artifacts, and historic photographs from the earliest days of Buckeye after it was founded in 1888. See a 1926 tractor, a row of seats from a community theater, and bronze plates from the Roosevelt Irrigation Canal. Founded in 1954, the museum was remodeled to include facades of historic Buckeye buildings. Tonopah marks the start of your adventures in southwest Arizona. Nowhere will you make better use of a motorhome or a camper than in remote places where the land seems to stretch on forever. So when you make your travel plans, don’t forget to search for a camper rental in Tonopah that will take you to places you thought were beyond reach.