Yipes! Big Quartzsite RV Show Changes Its Stripes

Visitors to Quartzsite who look forward to the big red and white stripped tent are in for a shock. The home of the Quartzsite Sports, Vacation, and RV Show has been replaced. Don’t roll over yet, Kenny King, the show’s promoter has replaced the venerable red and white with an even larger Big White.

This year’s RV show begins January 20th and runs through the 28th. Tens of thousands are expected to--well we can’t exactly say "file through" the tent--shoulder their way through the tent in search of everything RV. If you need it for your RV--of if you need an RV for that matter--you’ll probably find it in the big tent.

As always, parking is free on the grounds. But watch yourselves! Those "No Parking" signs along Highway 95 south of the show site mean just that. Every year Quartzsite Town police officers get plenty of exercise walking up and down a long stretch of the highway writing out big tickets to folks who seem to think the signs don’t apply to winter visitors.

Photo: 'The Great White Tent' looms over Quartzsite skyline. Thousands will soon be swallowed up.