Mostly Positive Quartzsite RV Show Wrapping Up for 2025 – RVBusiness – Breaking RV Industry News
QUARTZSITE, Ariz. – The Quartzsite Sports, Vacation & RV Show is a unique experience held every January under an enormous tent in the tiny desert town of Quartzsite, Ariz. While the town’s normal population is only a few thousand people, that number swells to what some estimate as over a half million as RVers descend on the area for the typically warmer temperatures, free camping on Bureau of Land Management land and plentiful RV services.
The show goes nine days – from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily (3 p.m. closing day), Jan. 18-26, at 700 S. Central Blvd., Quartzsite, Ariz. Among the appeals are the latest gadgets, but some come to get service work and upgrades done on their RVs as well as to learn more about the RV lifestyle at the workshops and seminars. Attendance at the event is free for spectators, as is parking. Located just off Interstate 10, 125 miles west of Phoenix and just 20 miles from the California border, this sleepy little town plays host to an RV extravaganza that started in 1982.
This is absolutely a show where things are sold to willing customers ranging from sponges to batteries to RV-related services – even RVs themselves.
So, how’s the 2025 show been so far? Well, that depends on who you ask.
“I hope everyone’s successful,” said Kimmy King, organizer of the show.
She described the vendors as a mix of return vendors and new with some of the new vendors arriving from China, Australia and Canada.
King added that the massive tent that houses the show itself grew another 40 feet in length from last year – it’s up to 650 feet long now – and that was 20 feet longer than the year before. With more vendors there are a lot of return sellers, but also a good number of new vendors as well.
Some of the return vendors have been thrilled with the results thus far, while others have not. But, while there’s never been an official attendance count, it does seem that foot traffic is down from previous years.
That could be due to fewer RVers in the desert. The number of white roofs reflecting the Arizona sunshine was definitely smaller than this reporter has seen in a while, which could be due to a number of reasons. Individual budgets and fuel costs are certainly factors, but there’s no denying that there seems to be fewer Canadians this year.
As mentioned, several exhibitors, such as Sadie Maughan from RVLock, described sales as being up. “But we also brought some new product to the show,” she said. Still, by the fourth day of the show the company was already running out of the product on hand.
One of the new vendors this year is Matt Foxcroft from Liquified RV tank treatment, who described the show as “phenomenal. This is absolutely great.”
It was also a challenge to speak with Foxcroft as there was a non-stop string of customers who wanted to speak with him. Foxcroft is a well-known personality on YouTube with his Matt’s RV Reviews channel with well over 100,000 subscribers.
To be fair, both Liquified and RV Lock had fairly attractive booths with eye-catching backdrops and plenty of product.
Some of the vendors were less inclined to be quoted directly, but it’s worth noting their booths might be considered less attractive.
The educational seminars were back again for 2025 with many of those being very well attended. While some of the seminars started right as the event opened for the day, that apparently didn’t dissuade people from almost running in from the entrance so they didn’t miss any of the discussion.
Once again, the popular topics were anything to do with solar and lithium systems. But, there was more diversity, too, as topics such as RV buying, the future of RVing and RV travel apps were also very well attended. The latter three and several others were given by this RVBusiness reporter, who is also the main organizer of the seminar tent.
