Santa Barbara Campground
Reviewed Jul. 26, 2020

Great location but small noisy campground

This campground has a PERFECT location, right on the border of the Pecos wilderness with fabulous hiking.  There is also fantastic fishing there, which many guests took advantage of all weekend.  However, this campground only has 15 single sites, but most were occupied by double the amount allowable..  There were huge parties at many of the campsites all weekend, with cards zooming around all day.  IT was NOISY and CROWDED.  

If the camp host (who didn't seem to care) controlled this, we would have given this campground 5 stars.  

The hiking was AMAZING.  Views AMAZING....  

This campground has a huge backpacker parking lot and when we arrived on Friday it was overflowing out onto the main road.  The reason is that this campground is the entry point to the NORTHERN end of Pecos wilderness with access to amazing backpacking, high mountain peaks, and literally dozens of groups of backpackers daily going up the trail or coming back out from their adventures.

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Month of VisitJuly
  • Review photo of Santa Barbara Campground by Robin T., July 26, 2020
  • Review photo of Santa Barbara Campground by Robin T., July 26, 2020
  • Review photo of Santa Barbara Campground by Robin T., July 26, 2020
  • Review photo of Santa Barbara Campground by Robin T., July 26, 2020
  • Review photo of Santa Barbara Campground by Robin T., July 26, 2020