San Luis Lakes Campground

Arrived before noon in hopes of getting a site as first come first serve. Being late September and the middle of the week was no problem. Had a great pull through spot with a view of Great Sand Dunes National Park. Site was mostly level. The picnic table had a shade cover. Every site had electric. We were surprised that it was 50 amp. Sites were far apart. Could have stayed much longer! Have to buy a SWA permit to stay at the campground, $10 a night or $10.95 for the year for non-residents. What a bargain! No water in the park but does have garbage and a dumb station.

The good: Great views, close to the Sand Dunes, basically free electricity, good phone and internet, dump and trash station. Free if you have a fishing, hunting or SWA pass. Otherwise it's $10 for the pass which you can get at the little store about 10-15 minutes away.

Not so good: No water in the park. I came with plenty so I didn't care, but for some it could be important.

Just a note, the description says there's showers and laundry, but they're permanently closed due to no water.

I use a T-Mobile home internet router to work and had a solid 4 bars all the time. I don't really stream much so can't say much there, but my tv antenna picked up about 6 or 6 channels and that was plenty.

Tip: The sun is STRONG mid day so take a site where most of your windows are facing morning sun which doesn't last as long as the afternoon sun. It'll also give you the best views of the mountains.

This campground is cool! Easily accessible by maintained gravel road. Once you are in the campground, the little roads are paved.

Don’t forget to stop at the Mosca Pit Stop gas station in town to get your $10 pass to camp here. It is called an SWA pass, and it is $10 for each person in your party. We forgot to do this and showed up to the campground without a pass, and the camp host graciously let us unhook our camper, but unfortunately we had to drive 8 miles back into town to get our permits.

There is no water hookups for our travel trailer, but they have electrical hook ups. The campsites are well maintained with a shaded picnic table, rustic benches and a fire pit.

The views of the sand dunes and the mountains are great! Absolutely unimpeded views, except for one chain link fence off in the distance.

We are about 13-14 minute drive from Great Sand Dunes National park and another few minutes to the Zapata Waterfall. Both were incredible!!! For $10, we really couldn’t beat this place.

Close to Great Sand Dunes National Park. This campground can accommodate larger rigs which is why we stayed here. Plenty of space - during our stay, there was maybe 10 other campers. No frills - there is power of all flavors, 20/30/50A but no water, so come with full tanks. Dump station is available. Restrooms are locked. We purchased a State Wildlife Area pass at the Walmart in Alamosa on the way in - the host will come by to check for it. Lake dried up with lots of bones laying around. Was able to hold video and phone calls.

This is a pretty nice campground. There are tons of sites. 30/50amp hook up available. No water on site. We had to go into Alamosa for water. The road is totally fine for any size rig. We stayed early May and the lake the dry and it was super windy. We also had a few desert mice enter our airstream which was startling.

The camp host came by and checked for fishing license/SWA pass the day after we arrived. He lives at the first site in loop A.

The views of the mountains and sand dunes were great! It’s very close to the National park.

We were in loop A but I had better service with AT&T in loop C. My service was unusable at A but T-Mobile has 5G here.

We arrived on a Saturday at the end of April at noon and there were plenty of spots to pick from. Beautiful views and clean campsites with a fire ring and picnic table with a cover over it. We are used to boondocking so having electricity was a huge bonus, and it was nice not hearing generators running all the time. The dump station was awesome too! You can’t refill but we didn’t need to, it was the perfect spot!