ROCKY POINT CAMPGROUND, Santa Rosa, NM

ROCKY POINT CAMPGROUND, SANTA ROSA SP

RUN BY:  State of New Mexico

LOCATION:   Santa Rosa, NM    (35.030737  -104.694920)

UTILITIES:  Electricity

COST:  $12

DISCOUNTS:  none

OUR RATING (1-5):  Category I.  Rating  3+

NOTES:  It is hard to say too much about Rocky Point since we arrived after dark and left the next morning. We were here Nov 30^th.  We were the only ones.  Even in the dark we found a nice pull-through site.  It turned out that we would have had a view of the reservoir, if we had stayed. It is >8 miles from the highway but worth the miles for a nice place to stay.

Environment:   Open area above a reservoir.

Amenities:  None

Dump:  Yes

Public Water:  Yes

Toilets:   Yes

Showers:  No

Laundry:  No

Phone Service:  Verizon 4G – 2bars

Nearest Propane: (no idea. Probably a place in Santa Rosa.)

Location:  Actually the easiest way to get to the park is to follow the signs – it is well marked – or use GPS coordinates since there are a number of turns to get to NM-91 (also called Joe & Louie Page Rd) which goes right by Rocky Point Campground Rd.  (35.030737  -104.694920).  Exit I-40 and follow Historic Rte 66 to N. 2^nd St. Turn north on N 2^nd St. Go to the second intersection – Eddy Ave – and turn right. Go to N 8^th St and turn left. This becomes Joe & Louie Page Rd (NM-91). Stay on this road to the campground. From the intersection of Eddy Ave and N 8^th St it is 8.1 miles to the Rocky Point Campground Rd.   

Proximity to shopping: You are about 8.6 miles from Santa Rosa. 

Camping Population:  We were there in December so we were alone. I would guess that locals there to fish and use the lake would dominate warm weather.

Many, if not most, of the sites had these shelters.

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RATING KEY:    category - score 

Categories:  I - established campgrounds where one might spend a vacation or several days

                    II -  boondocking, dry camping where there are no designated sites and no amenities but

                               one might choose to stay for more than a night.

                    III - over-night areas 

You must remember that we are scoring 1 thru 5 according to things which are important to us: the environment, cost, amenities, location, safety, camping population, site, phone service 

* There are people who are not full-timers and van-dwellers by choice. We try hard not to be demeaning or assume that they are bad people but sadly, as you find in the poorer parts of a city, there seems to be more crime. Many call these people van-dwellers. That isn’t really accurate even though they do often live in vans. We know quite a few van-dwellers who have good incomes, are full-timers by choice and prefer a van to other types of vehicles. To try to show some respect for people who have a difficult lot in life, I’m calling them ‘residential campers’.  It is only when you get a high proportion of residential campers in an area that you find an increase in petty theft, etc.