Best RV Parks near Carlsbad, NM

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Best RV Sites Near Carlsbad, NM (25)

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    1. Whites City RV Park

    21 Reviews
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    59 Saves
    • Pets
    • Fires
    • Electric Hookups
    • Phone Service
    • Reservable
    • RVs

    $20 - $45 / night

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    2. Carlsbad RV Park & Campground

    34 Reviews
    69 Photos
    101 Saves
    • Pets
    • Fires
    • Electric Hookups
    • Phone Service
    • Reservable
    • ADA Access
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    3. Buds Place RV Park

    3 Reviews
    3 Photos
    10 Saves
    • Pets
    • Fires
    • Electric Hookups
    • Phone Service
    • ADA Access
    • RVs
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    4. Horseshoe Creek RV Park

    2 Reviews
    1 Photo
    9 Saves

    Carlsbad's Horseshoe Creek RV Park! - 214 pull-through and 51 back in 50-amp RV Spaces with city water and sewer - 19 Crew Housing Sites offering 200-amp electrical, city water and sewer. - Water and Ice Machine! - High Speed Internet available through PVT! - Onsite Laundry! - Basketball court!

    • Electric Hookups
    • Phone Service
    • Reservable
    • RVs
    • Trash
    • WiFi

    $40 / night

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    5. Sunset Reef Campground

    37 Reviews
    61 Photos
    243 Saves

    The Sunset Reef Campground, located off the Washington Ranch Road, is a reclaimed well pad with 11 developed campsites; five RV spaces and six tent sites. Each site has a covered picnic table and grill for your camping convenience with a vault toilet on site. Visitors can dry camp in the area for a maximum of five nights for free.

    • Pets
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    • Phone Service
    • ADA Access
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      6. Windmill RV Park

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      4 Saves
      • Pets
      • Electric Hookups
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      • Tents
      • Trash
      • Picnic Table
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        7. Artesia RV Park

        3 Reviews
        3 Saves
        • Pets
        • Electric Hookups
        • RVs
        • Tents
        • Picnic Table
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          8. Whites City RV Campground

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          Campground is first come - reservations are taken and appreciated. You must call for the campground.

          White’s City RV Park and campground offers the closest RV and Tent camping near Carlsbad Caverns National Park. You can’t get any closer! The RV Park has all the necessities including water, sewer, and electric hookups as well as free Wi-Fi. We have both pull-thru and back-in spots, and can accommodate most any size RV or trailer.

          In our campground area, we have beautiful pine trees surrounding it as well as covered picnic tables, BBQ grills, and fire rings. Laundry and vending machines, as well as recently remodeled showers, bathrooms, are also available on site. The park is well managed and maintained and receives high customer ratings on many travel sites.

          • Pets
          • Fires
          • Electric Hookups
          • Reservable
          • RVs
          • Group

          $25 / night

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          9. Camp Washington Ranch

          3 Reviews
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          18 Saves

          Accommodations for overnight guests or monthly rentals. Washington Ranch offers lodging in three motel rooms, two single-room cabins, a spacious bunk house, dorms capable of sleeping 20 people each, three 30-Amp RV sites.

          RV: 30 AMP electric, water, and sewer dump, shower facilities are available, pets are permitted on a leash

          • Pets
          • Electric Hookups
          • Reservable
          • ADA Access
          • RVs
          • Group

          $50 - $150 / night

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            10. Coyote Flats RV Park

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            • Pets
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            • Picnic Table
            • WiFi

            $40 / night

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          Recent RV Reviews In Carlsbad

          227 Reviews of 25 Carlsbad Campgrounds


          • Mangla S.
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            Nov. 4, 2024

            Sunset Reef Campground

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            Oct. 27, 2024

            Sunset Reef Campground

            Sunset campground is near perfect

            The road in is a bit rough to travel but it’s less than one mile off the paved road . The sites are well marked and each site has a canopy over a cement slab with a grill , trash can and a picnic table . Five outta five stars …. It very close to Carlsbad Park

          • UThe Dyrt PRO User
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            Oct. 17, 2024

            Pine Springs Campground — Guadalupe Mountains National Park

            GREAT locale for hiking in Guadalupe Mtns.

            If not for the great locale for hiking, this would be a 2 star (nice views). As noted in other reviews, this is a paved parking lot, with sites in middle being parking spaces. Parking on perimeter have some tables. Due to middle spaces being pull through parking spaces, with the markers on ground and receipt post across street there was a misunderstanding with a couple of hikers who parked in wrong place and so camper who paid waited and waited for them to finish their hike (hikes here can take all day). IF you can, mark your spot with something before you leave.

            We did not reserve but got last spot 27 for a Mon/Tues stay. Nice clean bathrooms with flush toilets and soap. Campground is adjacent to trailhead parking so busy and some parked cars overnight.  Nice view of stars and milky way. Only 1 short trail for dogs.

            We also used this as base to go to Carlsbad Caverns.

          • Mary T.
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            Jul. 31, 2024

            Carlsbad KOA

            Nice place to camp

            Nice gravel sites. Wide roads to get into sites. Pool, playground. Restrooms OK. Only issue not great Wifi.

          • RThe Dyrt PRO User
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            Jun. 26, 2024

            Avalon Lake Dispersed

            Lakeside camping

            Cool spot, but beware of NAILS! Other than that, some night you might get some loud locals riding OHV on the other side of the lake.

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            May. 14, 2024

            Hackberry Lake

            Huckleberry lake BLM

            Just got here, nice level spot! Hot but good breeze so in my Casita or any type of shade is ok! Road off main road is gravel and washboarded so go slow! High clearance is not needed,

          • Roger W.The Dyrt PRO User
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            May. 4, 2024

            Dog Canyon Campground — Guadalupe Mountains National Park

            RV Area - Nice Virw

            Dog Canyon RV area: (Scale 1- bad, 5-Very good

            (71 yr olds in 17’ trailer.)

            Overall Rating: 3.5 Price 2024: $ 10 winteragency pass Security: No Usage during visit: 50 to 100%, however there are more no shows than usually experienced elsewhere. Site Privacy: No Site Spacing: Close Pad surface: Gravel Reservations: Yes Campground Noise: Quiet Outside Road Noise: This campground is the end of the road. Through Traffic in campground: Hiker parking area across from the RV sites Electric Hookup: No Sewer Hookup: No Dump Station: No Potable Water Available: Yes. I didn’t notice the hand pump to the left of the trailhead the first couple days here. Generators: Allowed Bathroom: Flush toilets are a short walk, located in the tent camping area. There is also a heated bathroom at the visitor center which is a short distance further.
            Showers: No Pull Throughs: All 4 sites are back in Cell Service (AT&T): No bars. There is WiFi at the visitor center. We were able to periodically pick up WiFi at our campsite, RV- D. Setting: Surrounded by ridges. Recent Weather: Very windy and cold nights.
            Solar: Excellent.
            Insects: None Host: Not filled.
            Rig Size: i cannot imagine that these sites will accommodate rigs over 25’. Sites: RV-A, and RV-D are on the ends. These are the best sites. RV-A door faces horse trailer parking area. No horse there trailers during our stay. RV- D is the best site if you can park your RV nose first. This makes sitting area more private . In RV- D and RV-A sites the occupant can spread out more.

          • Arthur M.The Dyrt PRO User
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            May. 1, 2024

            Sunset Reef Campground

            Nice free camping

            Great free campsite between Carlsbad Caverns and Guadalupe Mountains National Parks. Just a mile from the road but perfectly quiet. Not the most private sites but they are new and clean (including the pit toilet)

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            Apr. 30, 2024

            Sunset Reef Campground

            Sunset Reef Campground (BLM)

            Easily accessible to either Carlsbad Caverns NP or Guadalupe MTN NP and FREE and very good 4 bar Verizon service. The .5 mile drive in was a bit bumpy/washboard but level and hard packed so I'd think any vehicle could manage it, as there were many car campers. Very nicely done with 11 sites (5 pull thru RV and 6 car/tent) which we're overfilled by 6 p.m., although several folks parked by the fences without the shelter/table and stayed overnight. Signs notify that there are cameras/s monitoring activity so it was very quiet and felt safe.

          • RThe Dyrt PRO User
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            Mar. 22, 2024

            Dark Canyon Dispersed

            If you can, keep going up

            Sweet spot. I have a high clearance truck that allowed me to continue past the lot, and up up up the mountain. If you get up to the top and keep following it, you will end up in an amazing place.

          • Ashlee G.The Dyrt PRO User
            Camper-submitted photo from Pine Springs Campground — Guadalupe Mountains National Park
            Mar. 21, 2024

            Pine Springs Campground — Guadalupe Mountains National Park

            Easy access to the park!

            This is a good campsite but pretty much just a parking lot. Rv sites are easy to access (some are pull through, some are back in. There are bathrooms but no hookups. No generator use either so be prepared to dry camp. Great access to trails - we woke up and immediately did Guadalupe trail! Sites fill up on the weekends

          • CThe Dyrt PRO User
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            Feb. 22, 2024

            Sitting Bull Falls Dispersed

            Lovely dispersed spots

            Multiple pull offs along the paved road to sitting Bull Falls. The road follows a winding canyon up to a natural spring and waterfalls. There's a picnic area at the falls and trailhead to loads of hiking into Lincoln National Forest. No facilities at the campsites but there is water, trash, and bathrooms at the end of the road at the bottom of the falls. Well with the visit!!

          • rThe Dyrt PRO User
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            Feb. 18, 2024

            Pine Springs Campground — Guadalupe Mountains National Park

            Nice but cramped

            I enjoyed my stay here. The best sites are on the perimeter of the lot.

            Pros - clean bathrooms, dishwashing area, fresh water available, close to lots of great hiking, picnic tables are available on perimeter sites.

            Cons - some sites are in the parking lot , no hot water in bathrooms or dish washing area, no showers.

          • JThe Dyrt PRO User
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            Feb. 14, 2024

            Pine Springs Campground — Guadalupe Mountains National Park

            Nice Spot at the base of the giants

            This is a great campground if you have an RV, or are car camping. There isn't much privacy, and very little cell signal (Verizon). Other carriers reported better on Recreation.gov. Great for one night, but if I was to stay here longer, I'd prefer the tent sites.

          • rThe Dyrt PRO User
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            Feb. 13, 2024

            Sunset Reef Campground

            Great Camping Spot

            Nice camping spot only about 5 miles from Carlsbad Caverns. The sites are nice and the vault toilet was very clean. I camped here in February and there was plenty of room. I got here around 5:30 PM.

          • Morgan E.
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            Nov. 25, 2023

            Sunset Reef Campground

            Great camp

            Sunset reef is small and does fill up quickly as there is limited spots but you can always park on the outskirts of the corral like fencing and there’s still plenty of space. Luckily we had found and open spot and there were one or two others but filled up almost immediately. Covered picnic tables and fire rings as well as a charcoal grill were available at each site. There was one vaulted toilet and trash cans scattered around. I highly recommend this site if you can get a spot

          • JThe Dyrt PRO User
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            Nov. 20, 2023

            Sunset Reef Campground

            Nice and quiet. Plenty of room.

            Stayed here one night. All the covered sites were taken. But there's plenty of parking around the perimeter. Restroom was very clean. Great night sky. Quiet.

          • BThe Dyrt PRO User
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            Oct. 8, 2023

            Dark Canyon Dispersed

            Good spot

            I went further up the trail past the lot and there are a few spots up there as well. Nice view of the city and zero noise. Trail up to the top is a rough one though. High clearance needed and offroad tires recommended if going past the lot camp spot. Great off the beaten path spot.

          • W
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            Sep. 25, 2023

            Pine Top Wilderness Campground

            Beautiful camping site

            Once you have your permit, you can embark on your backpacking adventure to Pine Top. The 4.2-mile hike from Pine Springs to the campground will take you through diverse landscapes, including forests, meadows, uno online, and possibly even some stunning vistas. As you make your way to Pine Top, keep an eye out for wildlife and take in the natural beauty surrounding you.

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            Sep. 4, 2023

            Sunset Reef Campground

            Perfect camp spot to hit both parks

            This site was great. Super clean, free, has tent spots and also spots for vans/buses/rooftop tents, trailers. The sunset was BEAUTIFUL from the site. The stars were amazing as well. It is tucked back a little from the main road which was so nice. Nice and quiet.

          • Erik M.
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            Jul. 13, 2023

            Camp Washington Ranch

            Scenery was the best part

            Scenery by far the best part of this as people mention it and wonderful place to see water streams and stay writing some of my homework however food didn't seem to be as fresh as it should have been

          • Greg T.The Dyrt PRO User
            Camper-submitted photo from Chosa Campground
            Jul. 8, 2023

            Chosa Campground

            Free & Simple

            It’s just a huge free dirt lot to camp in. Very close to Carlsbad caverns and Guadalupe National parks.



          Guide to Carlsbad

          Camping near Carlsbad, New Mexico, offers a mix of stunning landscapes and unique experiences. Whether you're looking for a free spot or a more established campground, there's something for everyone in this area.

          What to do:

          • Explore Carlsbad Caverns National Park: Just a short drive from many campgrounds, this park is famous for its stunning underground formations. One camper noted, "Great location for both Guadalupe Mountains NP and Carlsbad Caverns" while staying at Chosa Campground.
          • Visit Guadalupe Mountains National Park: Another nearby gem, perfect for hiking and enjoying nature. A reviewer mentioned, "This is a great free area of land located conveniently between the Guadalupe mtns and The Carlsbad Caverns" at Sunset Reef Campground.
          • Enjoy the Dark Canyon: For those seeking solitude, the Dark Canyon Dispersed area offers quiet camping with beautiful views. One camper said, "Very quiet and far off from traffic noise."

          What campers like:

          • Free camping options: Many campers appreciate the availability of free sites like Mile 10 - Dispersed Camping. A review highlighted, "Spacious with fire rings, and a thousand times better than Sunset Reef."
          • Clean facilities: Campgrounds like Carlsbad KOA have received praise for their cleanliness. One visitor remarked, "Good shower. WiFi not very Stanley," indicating that while the WiFi could improve, the showers were a hit.
          • Convenient locations: Campgrounds are often close to attractions. A camper at Carlsbad RV Park & Campground mentioned, "This place makes a good basecamp for Carlsbad Caverns."

          What you should know:

          • Limited amenities at some sites: Campers at Chosa Campground noted, "It’s just a huge free dirt lot to camp in," so be prepared for a more rustic experience.
          • Weather considerations: The desert climate can be extreme. One reviewer at Mile 10 - Dispersed Camping warned, "I was caught in a two-day dust storm with 70mph winds."
          • Road noise: Some campgrounds, like Carlsbad KOA, are near highways, which can lead to noise. A camper mentioned, "Site is close to highway, so lots of road noise throughout the day and night."

          Tips for camping with families:

          • Choose family-friendly campgrounds: Look for places like Carlsbad RV Park & Campground that offer amenities like playgrounds. A reviewer said, "Staff does a good job with upkeep and the bathrooms seem new."
          • Plan for hot days: If camping in summer, arrive closer to sunset to avoid the heat. One camper at Sunset Reef Campground advised, "I highly recommend if you camp in Summer months to get there closer to sunset."
          • Bring entertainment: With some campgrounds being more remote, having games or activities can keep kids entertained. A visitor at Brantley Lake State Park Campground mentioned, "The sunsets are incredible."

          Tips from RVers:

          • Check for big rig access: Not all campgrounds can accommodate larger RVs. A reviewer at Carlsbad KOA noted, "Nice gravel sites. Wide roads to get into sites."
          • Be prepared for limited hookups: Some sites, like Mile 10 - Dispersed Camping, don’t offer electric hookups. A camper mentioned, "NO electric hookups," so plan accordingly.
          • Stay connected: Many areas have good cell service, which is helpful for RVers. A visitor at Carlsbad BLM Land Dispersed said, "Impeccable cell service, lots of space with any neighbors far away."

          Camping around Carlsbad, NM, offers a variety of experiences, from free dispersed sites to established campgrounds with amenities. Whether you're a family looking for fun or an RVer seeking adventure, there's a spot for you!

          Frequently Asked Questions

          • Which is the most popular RV campsite near Carlsbad, NM?

            According to TheDyrt.com, the most popular RV campground near Carlsbad, NM is Whites City RV Park with a 3-star rating from 21 reviews.

          • What is the best site to find RV camping near Carlsbad, NM?

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