Rockhound State Park

This is a great state park. 30 amp and water at site. Dump station is in the main loop. Sites are huge with clean gravel and pretty level. Our site had fire ring, pick nick table with cement and big cover for shade. Rock hounding starts 100’ from sites. Lots of Jasper, Rhyolite, and some thunder eggs. Camp host super helpful and friendly. Small rock museum at visitor center. Great views of the desert and city lights at night.

Easy to get to. 30amp with water in the site, also dry camping spots for $10 per night. Views are awesome! Especially at sunset. A little strange when you arrive, could do with a little better signage, but easy once you get the lay of the land so to speak. Very clean with great showers. Saw some wildlife, especially tarantulas, but they just walked off quietly. Some small trails close by that were very quiet as well.

We stayed for one night on April 1. The park is beautiful and very well maintained. I appreciated the clear labeling of non electric sites within their own loop, I’ve been to plenty of parks where it seems like you just have to guess when you’re looking for a tent site. It was a Monday and one tent site was occupied and all but two of the RV sites were taken. We pulled into the first open spot we found and the camp host came over immediately to greet us. He was very friendly, told us a little about the area, and even suggested we move to the other free site closer to the bathroom. All of the sites were really nice and clearly delineated, level gravel with covered picnic tables. Now - the bathrooms. These were hands down the nicest bathrooms I have seen on the road. When I first opened the door I was met with a scent best described as fresh laundry. They look brand new and clean clean clean. I was so happy because we had stopped specifically for a shower, and this one was
divine. Showers are push button, but the water pressure and heat are on point. We’ve been on a cross country roadtrip for a month and these are still the best bathrooms I have encountered across 9 states. I really wish we could have stayed longer, the host mentioned some hiking trails. I would stay here again in a heartbeat.

I work from my RV, so I need good data service. I have a WeBoost on my RV, so my service is based on my boosted signal. I had great streaming service with AT&T and Verizon. I tested a couple sites. It appears the park has good coverage throughout. The park backs up to mountain, so you get beautiful views of the mountain and the Rio Grande Rift down below. The camp hosts are very friendly. They keep the park very clean. Each site has its own trash can. The sites are large, some bigger than others. Reservations are hard to come by. The first come first serve electric sites fill quickly. Plan to get here by 10 am. I got a non-electric site for the first night and was able to get into an electric site the next day. The bathrooms look new and are very clean. Deming doesn't offer a lot to do, but you have great access to Mexico, Silver City, and the Gila National Monument. In Deming, check out Tacos Mirasol for tacos and the Elisa’s House of Pies for pecan bars and lemon bars.

Very, very well maintained campground. Clean. The host does a super job. Very leveled sites that are raked by the host every time someone leaves. He will try to help you on anything. When we first came in, without reservation, he offered us a dry camping site or a spot with water and electricity in the group area.

The view is simply beautiful from any of the sites. Large sites with protected picnic table on a cement slab. Price is very decent, 14$ which includes the park entrance fee. There is at least one FHU site (site 11) that apparently costs 18$. But not really advertised. Brand new bathrooms with free showers. Again, very clean.

We've stayed here four times now. It can be difficult to find an open site without a reservation. Backing in to some of the sites can be tricky with a big rig due to the large rocks along the roadside, but it's doable. It's always been quiet here, even when full, and you can't beat the views. We always visit the St. Clair Winery tasting room on the outskirts of town near the park.

We pulled in on a Friday night in June with no reservation and had plenty of campsites to choose from. The reviews indicated that the camp hosts were attentive...we never actually saw one. Full hookups, price was reasonable, campground was clean and attractive. It's not prohibitively far from the interstate for an overnight stay.

Bathrooms was a three-holer with three showers. Water wasn't terribly hot, but the shower had good pressure, and everything in the bathroom was spotless.

We had 4 bars signal, boosted.

There are several short hikes you can take, none of which were very strenuous. The sunset as advertised was spectacular. This turned out to be a great place to overnight on our way to Tucson. It would be a place worth visiting for much more time when the desert is in bloom.

The only downside to this campground was that there were a good number of flies...not surprising considering it was over 100 degrees.

Our 34 foot Airstream fit in site #6 without having to unhook for the night.

Upon approaching the entrance, there is a Stop sign and orange cones which block the right hand side lane. Instructions are provided to pay to enter, camp, etc. Since we had reservations, we bypassed the cones and drove a couple of hundred yards to the Visitors Center. Finding the Visitors Center closed, we drove to our reserved site #21.
As we were disconnecting the Jeep, Connie, the camp host arrived and introduced himself. After he made sure we were OK, he pointed out his camper in case we needed anything, let us know he was 1 of 2 camp host and departed.
We only had one full day to enjoy the area. We made the best of it by visiting Trina's Rock Shop in Deming, rockhounding in the park and finding 2 geocaches on the 1.1 mile hiking trail.
An additional day would have provided us more time to visit/hike Spring Canyon State Park. It is located a couple of miles past the turn of for Rock Hound SP.
Although this SP is a good ways off of I-10, it is worth the trip. It is in a quiet, scenic location at the foot of the Florida Mountains.

I am catching up with reviews, so we actually were here in late February 2018. Most of the sites here are first-come-first-served except for a handful of partial hook-up sites. After hearing how popular this park is, we arrived before 11:00 AM Sunday morning. Karen, the host, came racing over to meet us in her golf cart, catching us before we turned into the hook-up section. All the hook-up sites were taken, so she showed us the 3 available dry camping spots & we gladly chose one. They were all nice, big sites with awesome views. Karen showed us where to get fuel, groceries, propane, wineries (with tasting coupons, no less!) & recommended one of the most memorable restaurants I've ever patronized, the Adobe Deli! You have to be a bit open-minded when going there, as it's got a lot of character. I'll leave it at that.... Back to Rock Hound, they have one 2? mile hike up the hill above the CG with nice views of the area & the highest concentration of prickly pear cactus I've ever seen. They also have a little cactus garden accessible to the hook-up loop. There is one nice, newish bathroom with showers located also in the hook-up loop, near the dump station. There is a pit toilet in the picnic/overflow area. This CG becomes a circus every afternoon when new campers roll in. Since it fills up every day by noon or sooner, Karen (the hardest working host I've ever seen) greets each one and first places them in the overflow area, then sides of the road & maybe even the parking lot at the visitor's center after hours. I don't know if they actually turn people away, or the late campers have a better plan B option.