Hidden Valley Camping Resort

We stayed here for two weeks while visiting friends in Albuquerque. It's east of ABQ, over 1000-feet higher in the mountains, making it 10 degrees cooler than the city. In the summer this would likely be a big help with the desert heat, but we got snow during our stay in May 2019. With Escapees discount it was less than half the price of the RV park we previously stayed at (on the west side of ABQ) but Hidden Valley was a longer drive to the city each day. It was nice having actual trees for scenery instead of desert shrubs. Cell service worked fine (sorry, I didn't take notes on quality), there's a decent size fenced dog park, and a few paths/dirt roads that were nice for longer dog walks. Unfortunately our site was awful for several reasons. It was very narrow, so during our stay our passenger side (i.e. camping side) slide-outs were literally within inches of our neighbors slide-outs, leaving us no "camping space" at all, and hardly any room to walk between our rigs. We had more space on our driver's side, but due to a tree there we couldn't move over at all. Some other sites were very wide, while others were even narrower than ours. The campground is dirt/clay, not gravel, so each time it rained (or snowed) the entire campground turned into thick sticky mud which stayed wet for days. This made dog walks particularly messy, and also left deep tire ruts in the roads and sites whenever someone drove through. We may stay here again, but probably only if it's summer and we need to get away from the heat, or if we really need to save some money. I think if we had a better site and less mud, we'd have enjoyed our stay more.

Had trouble finding the entrance, even though right off I-40. Drive through site was convenient, but incredibly close to other trailers. Water on opposite side of RV but had horrible water pressure. Had to do without. Several cars leaving early in the morning from more permanent sites. Trailer next to me could not put out his slides. We had booked 2 nights, but left early after 1 night, not the "resort" we were expecting. C2C, so was free except for "resort fee" of $7.