This park, on Caddo Lake, is very well worn. We couldn't find a level site and went on to another park.
There is a bathroom/shower house up the hill. Sites are spacious and provide water and electricity at most of the sites. Oil City is just up the road and Shreveport is about 20 mi south. Not worth a trip to get there, but if you are counting pennies, it is about half what you pay at a private park.
This KOA has a lot to do--rec hall with pool table and ping pong table, a decent swimming pool, a basketball area, a playground. But we had to ask for a picnic table to be delivered to our site.
Most of the sites are full service; we wanted a site with electric and water and there are only about 10 of those (they are considered tent sites). And, per usual for a private park, they are pretty narrow. The park does have lots of trees, which is wonderful in this park of the country.
This state park sits in a prairie south of Lubbock and north of Portales. Sites have water and electric, ramadas with tables. Sites are huge; about 100' long. Most are pull thrus.
Nice bathrooms with good shower. Some trees but the ramadas provide most of the shade. There is a small lake which they say is stocked with very large catfish; didn't see any but I'm not a fisherman. There is a trash can at each site, which is something you don't see very often anymore. In fact, I walked down the road to a trash can because I just didn't expect one at the site.
It's a real bargain at $14.
We arrived past closing time, but we were taken care of and given a site. It is a typical AZ RV park with gravel sites and gravel roads and gravel everywhere. No shade, although there are tall cypress trees between each site. We parked kind of close to one of them and had to squeeze out the door. Our bad.
There is a pool, which is very nice and which is inside, which makes it usable all year round. Also a hot tub, and a HUGE workout room. The pool table is also nice.
Downside: the railroad runs lots of trains through Willcox and it takes a bit of getting used to.
Upside: there is a restaurant on site which has a very interesting menu. We enjoyed meeting Shannon and Vicki who run the restaurant. It's open for breakfast and lunch, so check it out.
The park itself is adequate. It is in town on Historic Route 66. Clean bath and showers; the pool was closed on 10/11. Sites and interior roads and everything in betwen was gravel and rough. Our site was only off level by 3" on one wheel.
The best thing about the park was that Bob referred us to Bozo's Garage, 1/4 mile away. Wow! What a great operation. Ultra competent, accurate diagnosis and low cost for what actually was needed to be done.
Then go across the road to Bozo's Car Museum. Cool custom and restored cars. By the way, Bozo is a childhood nickname and he is NOT a Bozo.
While you are in town, check out the many lakes and, of course, the famous Blue Hole. Santa Rosa deserves a day visit. Maybe eat at Joseph's. Drive to Puerto de Luna. Buy a copy of the Communicator, the local paper, to find out what's going on.
If you don't need water and sewer, drive 10 mi north on Santa Rosa Lake Road to the state campground. There is a dam on the Pecos River and about 40 nice campsites. The other campsites are horse campsites.
The campground and campsites are all paved and most are drive thrus. About half (those in the A loop) have water and electric; the B sites have neither. Sites are huge and most have ramadas to provide shade from the hot NM summer sun. No highway noise, no street lights, 90,000 stars (but who's counting). Loved it.
Bathrooms are usual; husband took a shower and said it was nice. The frequent state park think where you press the buttom and the shower runs for a set period of time. But it was warm and wet.
The lake isn't much as of 10/11 because of the severe southwest drought. In fact, the park people refer to it as a bunch of puddles rather than a lake. But Santa Rosa is worth a day checking out all of the interesting sites.
The two best things about this park are that it is right in town (Tlaquepaque is an easy walk) and it has lots of trees. The sites are snug. There are only 2 showers for all those RVs; I had to wait almost half an hour for a shower. It is truly amazing the someone can be in the shower for that long!!! The staff is very brusk and make sure that you know all of the rules, and there are lots of them with a long list of 'don'ts'.
There is a nice area in the shower area with benches etc that would be good if you had a family and needed to spread out. It's pricey, but you are paying for location.
This is a huge park with many campgrounds spread over many miles. We stayed at Two Moon Campground and I think we were only 1 of 2 sites taken in the campground. There is no water or electricity at the sites but there are faucets scattered throughout the campground. Vault toilets. The sites are huge; you could almost get lost in them. The road is blacktop and the sites are gravel. They are mostly level and some are way back in the trees. We were up on the bluff overlooking the dam that forms the lake; I gather there are some sites down at the beach level. They were flooded out this summer and were closed when we were there.
While there is no electricity or water at the sites, there are many water faucets throughout the park. Half of the sites are pull thrus, half are back ins. Lots of trees, large sites. Paved roads, gravel sites. Flush toilets, no showers.
We hiked in the park, some on trails, some cross country. Saw lots of buffalo and prairie dogs all over the place. Wild horses came through our campsite while we were eating dinner. And when we were leaving in the morning, the picnic area was full of bison just eating THEIR breakfast. Cool park; cool campground.
That's what we were told by another customer when we went to the office to register. This park is only 11 mi east of Quartzite, the winter mecca for snowbirds, and I gather it is really hopping in the winter. In fact, they are full up for next January and February. But the area is pretty quiet in October. There are many permanent spots in the park, so it's hard to tell how many temporary people they can take, but I would guess that more than half are permanent. But they are all neat and well-cared for.
Lots of amenities--pool, hot tub, 4 pool tables in an air conditioned room, lots of daily activities come the winter season. And the sites are huge by private park standards. While the site is gravel, there is a long concrete pad with a picnic table on it. Shade is minimal; how much shade can a palm tree provide, after all?
All in all, a very pleasant place to stop for the night.
While the park is located in Brenda, the mailing address is Salome, AZ. It's a Good Sam Park.
