Trailer Village

Unfortunately for us we had reservations at Trailer Village for the remainder of our stay because we were afraid of the heat in July so wanted hook ups to have AC. It was ugly and depressing. I didn't even take any pics of our parking spot. I would have much rather stayed at Mather but they were full and we couldn't move. Trailer Village had tons of open spaces the whole time we were there even though they had the FULL sign out. Many of our neighbors just drove up and got a space even with the FULL sign out. I think it is because most people cancel and leave early once they get there. My pics. don't really capture the nature of the village. I would only recommend staying there if you are used to RV parks where everyone is lined up in little rows.

The one redeeming feature of Trailer Village was the Elk that roamed through. One half of Trailer Village is for visiting RVs. The other half is a trailer park for workers. The worker half put out water for the Elk so you could reliably count on them visiting it.







Another redeeming feature is that you could walk your dogs right into the forest surrounding the village which is where we saw this Elk.

On the back left corner of the village is a service road that goes by the water treatment towers. If you follow this you take a short cut to the Greenway which takes you to the South Rim Visitor center. This is great for people with dogs. We hardly ever saw anyone on the Greenway as the park encourages people to take the shuttle or drive. In fact the one time we asked a ranger for directions he recommended that since we were a mile from the rim we go back and get our car instead of walk. It was pretty funny.