Stayed here two nights while visiting Great Sand Dunes, because the Pinon Flats campground at the park had already booked up basically six months to the day in advance - but very glad we stayed here instead.  The views of the San Luis valley were insanely beautiful.  Star gazing was spectacular.  The hike to the frozen waterfall was one of the highlights of our two-week trip.  And during our stay, a grass fire broke out at Sand Dunes forcing them to close the park for half a day, but since we were at Zapata Falls it didn't affect us and we were able to still spend the day hiking on the mountain.  The drive up is lengthy but the road is in pretty good shape, there was a crew working on it while we were there.