Gage Rest Area Westbound

This is a rest stop/picnic area. There's a typical large parking area for cars and trucks immediately in front of the rest rooms. But if you continue just past the bathroom and turn right on the paved road, it takes you to the picnic area. Individual picnic sites are large with gravel parking areas in front of each one. Plenty of room for our tow vehicle and 40 foot 5W. The picnic area circles around and behind the bathroom. Unfortunately the only water source is the bathroom sink, unless you can find the full time maintenance man and get him to give you access to his big sink. (We always travel with about 12 gallons of water but had a little snafu and arrived with only a 6 gallon container of water. ) The picnic area each have a classic NM adobe shelter. This is a wide, open area. Quite nice.

This is the nicest roadside stop we've encountered
Several well disbursed pull through parking spots with nice picnic area with garbage can.
Sites are very level, gravel areas and extremely clean and well maintained
The 10 is a very busy road 24/7 and lots of trains bordering the other side (which we happen to love!)
The in and out was a bit tight but we're almost 60' hooked up
The only thing that would improve it is water and a dump

Might have been an old rv Park, there are rest rooms and picnic areas where RV s must have camped as old water pipes around, with locks on them, and appears old dumps by most. Someone was cleaning when we arrived and she said no problem setting up for the night at any one of the sites. Signs say 24 hours only. Train runs quite often behind us and we aren’t far from the freeway, but for a nightm and Free, we don’t mind. This is 2 miles west of Deming, gps wanted us to turn off at exit 62, but we kept going west the 2 miles then it told us to turn off..there are rest stop signs. A few semi s, I’d stay here again,
TRAINS RUN A COUPLE EVERY HALF HOUR OR SO...WAS NOISY.

This place used to be called "Butterfield Station RV Park".

To call this an RV Park would certainly be pushing the limits of the term. Heading East on US 70 only a couple of dozen miles north of the New Mexico / Mexico border, Butterfield Station (a Bowlin’s Convenience Store and Gift Shop, if you’re familiar with them) sits serenely at the Gage exit, alone in it’s construction, surrounded by high desert and all of it’s glorious low lying, dark green shrubbery and flowing blonde grasslands.

We pulled in, I just couldn’t drive any more, having had a rough night’s sleep and a full day in already. I was prepared to boondock it for the night at the station, but low and behold an old wooden sign, peeling white paint for the base and sloppy red spray paint declaring “RV PaRK” beckoned us to the promise of electricity and maybe a little water.

There isn’t much else to say. The park itself is about a 1/2 mile down an empty road, and by the time you actually reach it, the Butterfield Station gift shop’s sign can’t be read. If it weren’t for the highway and it’s big rigs passing not all too far away, the place would feel immaculately desolate. There are no facilities: shower? toilet? sauna? Not here. There is a pavilion with two small chairs that remind me of what it must be like to attend elementary school in 19th century Spanish colonies.

But the price is right, $12 / night for full hook ups as of the writing of this review. They did mention there would be upgrades happening soon, and likely upgrades to the price as well. But for now, if you want a park in New Mexico entirely to yourself, not even an office worker after 7pm, but still with quick access to the amenities of a convenience store (think DQ and a Coke cooler, maybe a pack of cigarettes), then this just might be the place for you.