City of Rocks State Park

A volcano erupted 50 miles away millions of years ago and threw all these humongous boulders smack in the desert. The State has created a fantastic campground where you can camp right amongst the boulders. We snagged one of the electric/water sites last minute. Don’t go by the website to book. It showed me that all the hookup sites were full but I was able to get one when at the visitor center.

Have been meaning to check this NM State Park out. Beautiful and remote.

Very clean. Mostly sites without utilities. We spent one night at site 13 ,,,but it was a tough site due to not being very level and steep access. Moved to 5 the next day which is one of 10 sites with power and water.

Friendly staff and great escape.

Faywood Hot Springs are very nearby.....but currently only taking reservations for the private pools if you are not staying there. Make your reservation for Faywood before you get to COR.....we had no cell service.

Check out the NM State Park annual pass....it will pay for itself quickly.

COR is a spacious, scenic state park with a variety of sites in an idyllic desert environment. While sites vary in size, accessibility, and levelness, the park is big rig friendly, but the most natural/private sites are dry camping (for large rigs I’d recommend previewing sites on Google Satellite/Street View and individual site pictures). We opted for a W/E site (30amp), which was long, wide, and fairly level, and while it didn’t offer the same spacious setting as most of the dry campsites, it was still surrounded by plants and trees, roomy, and comfortable.
This CG is away from it all, offering beautiful sky views, plenty of rock outcroppings to explore, and a fair amount of trail for easy walks or moderate hiking. The drive in from the highway is on good roads, and while there is no dump station on site, there is a free option at the travel plaza/gas station near the highway. There is plenty of room to walk a dog (though we spotted 2 dead rattlesnakes on our first day), there were no goatheads (which have become a near constant problem as we travel in NM and AZ), and amazingly enough, our Verizon service worked great with the booster. Beautiful spot, and we’d definitely stay again- rate is a reasonable $14 a night for W/E, plus the less reasonable $12 reservation fee.

This is a welcome stop on the flat and vast Chihuahuan desert drive through southern NM. Campsites are well priced (even with $4 processing fee online) and there are showers at the visitors center. Some easy trails circumnavigate the campsites.

Sites 40-45 and 11 and 20 I think it was are first come, first serve. Otherwise you have to book online, but at least the entry fee is included, unlike with Texas state parks.

We stayed here 4 nights. This sight was perfect for our 28 ft class a. Level parking and campsite. Huge picnic table, fire pit and enough room for our 4 fur babies to exercise. One side of campground was a beautiful view of prairie and Mountain View’s. The other was of prehistoric-looking boulders. Great walking paths and clean vault toilets.

Many other campsites were not as perfect as ours. Difficult to level RVs due to some with drastic inclines. Bring a lot of levels if you get one of those. You have to reserve through Reserve America which is easy. We will be back.

Open, lots of great sites.
My van wouldn’t start when it was time to leave and the park ranger offered a jump and when that didn’t work he figured out it was a fuse, switched it with another and my van started.
I definitely recommend this park, it is my 2nd visit and both have been positive.
I have Verizon and service was between 2 and 4 bars.

You can't trust Google maps satellite view on this one… because it doesn't capture the slope on the sites, which can be a substantial. Not only are they not level front to back, but also side-to-side. I had an awesome campsite reserved but I couldn't actually use it the way it was intended. I had to park near the bottom of the site where it wasn't so steep. But it was OK, I just had 2-tier camping!

A 26' trailer pulled in on the pull-thru site next to me, and they had to go elsewhere because they couldn't get even close to level. You'll have much more options in smaller rigs.

Walking around the park, I found about 8 sites that would be appropriate for my rig next time (not counting the electric sites). Worth it to camp among the rocks! I loved it here.

Nothing much to add to previous reviews. Each spot is very unique with many of the sites tucked around and in between the rocks. Pit toilets are scattered throughout and are clean. Our site (#25) had a fire ring and table.

The hiking here is great and dog friendly. There is 3.5 mile loop around the park and 3 mile out and back up Table Mountain which is WELL worth it.

If you’re working or need to stay connected.... this was one of the trickier parks we’ve had to stay connected. We have a WeBoost mobile booster with AT&T. Some sites would have 2 bars LTE, our spot had no signal at all. We found an open spot to work from that had signal then went back to our site. When we woke up the next morning, we had two bars of LTE at our site (the same spot that had no signal the night before 🤷‍♂️)