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Enjoy your own private desert playground, 320 Acres of pristine wilderness in the shadow of Blanca Peak and in sight of the Great Sand Dunes National Park. Dunes Desert Camp is your staging ground for exploring the natural wonders of the San Luis Valley. Located just twenty miles from downtown Alamosa, Dunes Desert Camp offers remoteness and privacy coupled with the convenience of being near a vibrant metropolitan center. Get away from it all, and get back to finding yourself in the desert.
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Directions from Alamosa:
Go North 11 miles On Rt 17. Turn right (East) on Lane 4 North just after the large metal quonset hut. Lane 4 is a dirt road. Drive 5 miles until you come to a cattle guard in the road. The entrance is a green gate on the left side after the cattle guard.
From Denver, via 285 South:
Turn left (South) on Route 17. Go 37 miles to the Mosca Pit Stop (get gas here if needed), continue South on 17 for 1 mile, turn left (East) on Lane 4 North (listed on Google Maps as “Fourmile Ln”. Go 5 miles down this dirt road until you come to the only cattle guard. Entrance is green gate on the left, following the cattle guard.
Meet your host here at the agreed time and he will show you to your site!
Beautiful place with the best views location in the valley. Very private- perfect for a desert retreat!
Dunes is Colorado’s Exploration HQ!
The private location gives you a basecamp to rest and relax while being in prime reach of the Great Sand Dunes national park and the range of 14,000’er peaks in the San Luis Valley.
Ask the team for their insider recommendations
Dunes offers workshops for your mind, expeditions for your body and a community for your soul. 🙏🏻🗺️⛰️
We Rented one of their jeeps for the day to take up the Medano Primitive Road.
Chris was very friendly and gave us plenty of advice for things to see on the way up.
The jeep was spotless and performed perfectly for the task at hand. We had a blast!
Highly recommended!
Excellent place to get off grid. Chris was super welcoming host making sure we had everything we needed. We brought our camper van and were pretty self contained but it was great to have access to clean bathrooms and hot shower. The views were epic and the stars were incredible. Close drive to the Sand Dunes National Park. We spent a week in solitude and it was awesome. No problem generating solar.
Verizon works on 1 or 2 bars depending where you are but can also drop all together, so we ended up setting up our Starlink.
Close drive to Alamosa for supplies or there is a gas station close by with pretty decent stock. Recommend driving down Lane 6 and turning on Rd 113. GPS will bring you down Lane 4 which is unpaved, Lane 6 is paved all the way.
The tent sites are spread out and look to be really high quality and the safari tents looked really cool! There’s also a super awesome communal space with cooking and lounging.
If you want an off grid spot with an excellent host and access to bathroom and showers I can’t recommend enough.
We had an amazing stay at the Dunes Desert Camp. The perfect balance of an off-the-grid and serene location to stargaze, chat and cook around the communal campfire with the convenience of easy trips to local attractions. Highlights included hot springs, Zapata Falls, local breweries and a sunset hike at the Great Sand Dunes National Park! The Dunes Desert Camp is a truly magical place. The Dunes team created such a memorable experience, and we can’t wait to go back!
