Boondocking in Arizona near Quartzsite and the Desert Bar

The Desert Bar near Parker, AZ is one of the more unusual desert places I visited. I was with a boondocking group when a woman said I should come along as she and her son and some others were going to a bar where there was dancing. I assumed we were going into town.

We drove up the highway then turned off on an unmarked dirt road. We drove for several miles with nothing in sight but rocks and a few bushes. It was just us, no others. Ever the optimist I started thinking maybe this was a mother son serial killer team and I would never be seen again.

As luck would have it they were not a mother son serial killer team but actually were driving to a bar where there was dancing.

The Desert Bar, as you can see from the arial I shot from a helicoptr is out in the middle of nowhere. But with that the bar has two stages and dance floors, a bar of course and a light cafe. It’s all run on solar power. They close at 6pm because they start to lose the solar and in any event you really don’t want to be driving out of there in the dark.