Sunday, March 31, 2024

Santa Rosa Lake State Park

New Mexico state park campgrounds are among the most reasonably priced in the country and a day fee is not added onto the campsite price. New Mexico is also one of the few states that offers a yearly campground pass to non residents. It's a bit pricey at $225 but worth if you plan to spend time in New Mexico. We haven't stayed in many New Mexico state parks but we've found them to be nice although a bit on the primitive side which is a plus in our opinion. 

Santa Rosa Park has three campgrounds that sit above the lake. Los Tanos is tent only, Juniper Park sites have tables, grills, and shade shelters with water and a dump station nearby, Rocking Point sites are mixed with some having electric hookups along with tables, grills, and shade shelters. Juniper and Rocking Point have restrooms but only Rocking Point has showers. The sites with electricity can be reserved. The accessible site in Juniper Park has water and electric hookups. It also has an accessible table, a paved path to the restrooms, and a large paved parking pad which extends under the table and grill. Rocking Point has two accessible sites but the access to the restrooms are not as good as the site at Juniper.  Most of the sites are not very level. The pull through sites are large enough for most RVs.

 The overlook shelter has a long ADA compliant ramp to the top level. The short paved trail across from the visitor center has a few hills. Most wheelchair users will need assistance. We did not go to the visitor center. 

RVs can be parked along the road at the overlook. The spaces at the path parking lot are between 30' - 40'. Park  35.03103, -104.67948


 

4 comments:

  1. I read on a different blog that NM had done away with the yearly pass...

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    1. Hmm... their website still promotes it. I've seen complaints because they now have a charge for reservations. And not all of the parks have primitive camping which is free with a pass. Hopefully, they don't do away with it. There has been discussion on raising the price of camping from $10.00 to $20.00 for a developed site - table, fire ring, etc but not utilities.

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    2. As I recall.. what I read talked about $20 a night for everyone.

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  2. We stayed here one night last year on our way east -- only Jupiter was open, all the rest were closed for the year. It was all right (we heard coyotes in the night). Wasn't expensive at all.

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