There is a new game here in the SW, and it's called locking down your RV site for next season before you leave town in the spring. I visited Silveridge on Southern Avenue in Mesa yesterday to see what they had to offer. This is an above average park with plenty of amenities. The season (October 31 - March 31) for an RV site is about $3,000, which includes water, sewer, trash and cable TV.
There are just under 700 sites at Silveridge, and the list I was given for RVs currently lists just over 100 sites available for motor homes and trailers. Of that, only seven were currently available for the winter season starting in the fall of 2015. Remember, this is March, so you get the idea. RVers know, given the demand and dwindling supply, reservations are essential. The list of RV sites in most of these better parks get shorter each year as year-round park models replace seasonal RV sites. Good for the parks, not so good for RVers.
Silveridge doesn't have a lot of surplus real estate, but even they have had to find space for Pickleball courts (you see them in the distance). Pickleball is the rage at the moment, and parks are responding with many courts as they have space for. There are currently four at Silveridge, and they are new. You won't find a high-end RV park without a nice pool, and Silveridge's pool and patio area in one of the nicest I've seen.
