Fri, Feb 14:
Valley of Fires Recreation Area to Elephant butte State Park, NM
We hooked up jeep last night and left our site by 7am. Winds were going to kick up to 30mph and that is more than we like driving in. A quick stop at Walmart in Soccorro for a pick up. LOVE walmart pick ups...saves me lots of time.
We arrived in Desert Cove Campground by 10am...missing most of the wind that was to come. Perfect. Elephant butte SP is a large multi campground park.
A word about New Mexico State Parks (currently using the $250 cheap annual park pass for non residents). Coming from Florida State Parks (and other state parks), We are not impressed with their ability to maintain and fix their facilities. This is the third out of five campgrounds with non functioning showers. One had a non functioning dumpstation and sent you to free ones (good) but they were at least 40 minutes away! This year of 2025 they raised the non resident annual camping pass to a whopping $600. EVERYONE we talked to will not be buying that pass and mostly not coming back to New Mexico. AND these campgrounds are maybe half full or less soooooo...... We will probably go thru NM quickly and use boondocking and maybe one campground after we verify all facilities are working because base prices is now $20 for no electric or water. Disappointing.
Our campsite at this campground is spacious enough but we will have to drive to another bathhouse for showers...while we can see the nonfunctioning one in our loop...
Dinner is diy Broccoli cheddar soup ala Panera....delicious.
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