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120 Acres easy access to I-40. (One mile of county maintained primitive road to property, dirt roads on property) Several boondocking/tent areas to choose from whether you enjoy wide open space or nestled near beautiful Juniper trees. Limited electric sites, we do not offer trash removal, dump station or water filling facility. Pack it in/Pack it out please. Community house open 24 hours for bathroom, showers, cooking. (donations accepted).
Recommend arriving before dark, black skies here unless you arrive under a full moon!
We are in the process of cleaning/rehabbing the property with the intentions of stewarding a working Eco-village with the focus on helping travelers/nomads. Please join our Facebook group LunaGaia Nomadic Village and/or Nomads Helping Nomads Network (website in progress).
Very pretty, but whoever runs the grounds is rent-seeking. $6 for picnic use, no open bathrooms, no water, no garbage bins.
Nice place to camp. Short walk to the lake. No hook ups. You have access to bathrooms and water.
We really love the area, but it needs to be cleaned up after the loggers cut most of the trees down opposite side of the road from the campgrounds. The bathrooms were clean and had running water. How ever we rented Group site C and most of the picnic tables were busted up. With about 6 camping families randomly our kids got sick and we could not find a common reason except for that the kids who were sick might have touched the lake water. It has been a long night and we are ending our camping early cause most of the kids clothes are covered in throw up or diarrhea, same with our sleeping bags.
New Mexico... camping ... no litter... potholes galore... washboarded roads... our upgraded trailer for back country boondocking snapped a spring, ruptured a propane line and gray line fittings loosened and leaked.
Were not tenderfoots! Made me re-think about ever camping New Mexico ever again. Res indians are nice as are common folk. Businesses out of control.
NM NEEDS A GOVENOR
... Signs are virtually non existant or sooooo itsy bitsy. Don't trust your navigation software OR LOCAL SIGNS. Weights and measures is asleep at the wheel. SEVERAL ALMOST ALL gas stations have pumps you can't read so FRONTLOADING IS RAMPANT. (Pull in to pump gas, pump is unreadable, (pump from previous person still active so their amount is now yours (front $ loaded to your amount))). You are charged yours and theirs! You owe it too ! Declare its a drive off please clear for you. SIMPLY DO THIS TO BE SAFE: 1) Don't touch the pump but go straight in and get $1 CASH GAS. 2) PUMP THE BUCK WORTH OF GAS. 3) Go back in and buy with credit. NOTE: If you have cents off per gallon .... FORGET IT .... JUST PUMP AND GO. THE $1 GAS RESETS THE PUMP SO YOU ARE SAFE.
BTW: CELL SERVICE IS SPOTTY AT BEST. Example: We were just outside an auto parts store in Grants and could not get voice cell service, texts 10+ minutes to go thru.
All of this was BEFORE BURNING MAN 2023 DEVISTATION. We got out just in time limping with broken spring washboarded nightmares since then...
Good luck in NM ... You’ll need it.
Very restful. Close to Alpine.. convenient for long term stay. I stayed 2 wks. Sometimes noisy: hwy sound, generators, construction work on hwy. Oh well. Very clean. Lots of birds, coyotes, elk. Friendly people. Tent sites not level and pines don't provide constant shade. Lots of wildflowers... Never seen so many different. The spaces are adequately spaced.
