We had intended to camp on the Mesa because we were headed that way to do senior pictures for our daughter. We had the perfect spot picked out and then decided to head up to one of the closer campgrounds. We got there late in the day, probably 6:30 or so and there were only two other campers there. Both in motor homes of sorts. We are avid tent campers and we knew it would be chilly before we even went. We arrived to a couple inches of snow, whereas the senior picture location did not have snow. We could hear our tires crunching the frozen ground and decided to pick a spot that looked to have been used prior. It was a spot that had a good share of dirt that wasn't covered in snow with a semi long driveway. I believe it was site 3. This is our first real go around with snow and we thought we were prepared but we admittedly do not have four season tents and we really didn't think it would be this cold yet but it was. The fire ring was nice and we quickly made our fire to warm up as we were already getting a chill. The 1000 or so feet below where we were photographing allowed us to be in light clothes, the altitude made a huge difference. We got our pot of chili going and got to work putting our site up. We used a tent we haven't used before and really weren't thinking when we did so, it had elbows of sorts that froze, we were able to warm them up to get it back down but it could have been a moment of death for the tent had we not warmed it up first. Anyway, we huddled the fire for quite some time, it was my husband and I, along with three children and three dogs. All varying in age and size. We finally made our way to the bathroom, the toilets were very very low! But it was clean and there were some toilet paper rolls in there. As the campground was basically empty, the tp supply lasted the duration of our stay. We did have to frequent the potty a couple times in the night and we noticed that there were K9 tracks that circled the bathroom with no human prints to match. We are assuming coyote on that one. It was cold at night but we made it through and woke up to a very frozen campsite. Our tents were covered in ice and frost, although we woke to a smily face on our tent lol. We decided to pack up camp, get the kids and dogs in the car and head down the mountain side and hit up a starbucks. That was about the extent of our first winter camping experience.