Santa Rosa Campground & RV Park

This guy was a LOONEY!!!! He was beyond crazy and needless to say we left and we did NOT stay the night. It was worth losing the money to leave the really dirty location. Trash everywhere. Right off the highway and nothing to see or do. The restaurant is not a restaurant. The owner judged me from the moment I walked in and gave me a dirty look and said he's been married 4 times and once to a stripper. He said maybe he should "turn gay." As he was checking me in told me to watch out at night for my 9 and 12 year old to go to the bathroom alone. He said he would not give a AAA discount and called it a "covid tax." We contacted AAA regarding the false information since he had a AAA sign on his wall and said it was 100% not okay. He would not wait on me and give us our spot unless I touched a large gold coin from his desk. He would not sell me a can opener in the general store telling me I would "hurt myself" on it. I tried to laugh and play it off, but RAN as fast as I could out of that awful place. My suggestion is if you need to stay somewhere nearby for the night, there's a KOA that is perfectly nice and welcoming and the same rate. I would not stay at this place if my life depended on it.

11/22-23/2020
Great stop over on our travels to Arizona from Minnesota. We were winterized so only used the electricity. The front desk person was very friendly & enthusiastic. At the time of registration I purchased a key ring to add to my collection, but If you read all the campground rules on the backside of the camp map, you can get a 10% discount on one item at the gift shop. Really nice clean restrooms with showers.

We just spent 1 night here as we traveled from Colorado to Tennessee. It was great for a stop over, but there isn't much to do around there if you are staying for a long time. The manager was a dry, but he was accommodating and nice enough. We had a W&E only site and they have a dump conveniently on site we used before heading out. There were many sites on the grounds. We had an easy pull through site that was pretty level. Gravel roads throughout but wide and maintained. It was cheap and it worked great for a stopover and for that reason, we'd stay again.

So in a pinch I would stay here again as there are not many options. Chris who I assume is the manager was pretty aggressive and opinionated. It is election time and he made his views very clear on which side he supported. Once I got past that, we pulled into our site and were greeted by 3 beautiful kittens. I fed them some tuna and milk and walked back into the store to see if any cat food was available. This did not go over well with Chris the manager who told me to not fed the cats and that he was going to trap them all and put them behind the red barn on the property so the owls there could eat them. I begged him to not do such a thing and he said “well I can’t have them just getting into peoples rigs!” I left the office pretty sad and when I told my husband he tried to assure me if that was the intention it would have been done already. I hope this is true and Chris does not harm those beautiful creatures. So in short if you can avoid Chris (maybe come after hours) the park was clean and laundry on site was nice. They do have a restaurant and we had ribs delivered to our rig. I thought they were just okay, husband thought they were pretty good.

A few hours prior to arrival we called to confirm availability and we were told they had plenty of empty sites with 30 amp service and water (no sewer). No problem for us. We arrived a bit before 8pm and were greeted with a lot of large signage indicating to stop and complete after hours check in. Easy enough. The front of the park was fairly full, but out back there were a lot of empty back in and pull through sites. We picked a pull through at the far back in a dark and quiet corner. The owner did drive by when we were setting up and asked if we’d checked in, and all was good. Its a clean and quiet park. The park WiFi didn’t work at our site in the back corner, but our AT&T hotspot picked up a lightning fast data connection. I’m sure we will be stopping here whenever we need a good night sleep in this area.

We have now stayed here 5 different times as we make our way west and then back home (1000 miles from here). We always stay here when we are passing through because it is an easy stop. It has pull through so we don’t have to unhook even though we are 62ft total, a Pilot travel center just down the road, and an on-site restaurant. Yes, restaurant stops taking orders at 6pm and food is delivered to your site shortly after that. I would not call this a destination campground but it’s perfect for us as an overnight stop.

Stopped overnight on our way through. Checked in at 5:44 PM as I happened to look at my phone. The guy checking us in, Chris, not sure if he's the owner or manager but he's an ass. He went lengths to tell me about his new employee and about the restaurant that serves the campground. He told me all about the menu and specials and that they only take cash for dinner. What he didn't say a word about was the restaurant closing at 6:00 PM. We got to our spot and set up. Decided what we wanted to order and called. All we got was a recording. We then noticed on the menu that the restaurant stops taking orders at 6:00 PM. It was 6:07 PM when we called. I walked up to the office just as Chris was leaving. I asked if it was too late to order and was told it was. I told Chris it would have been nice if he'd told me about the closing time when we checked in. He told me that I was told. When I told him he hadn't said a word about the closing time, he just shrugged and walked away..... Nice. Went back our site and started fixing dinner then noticed the new employee delivering food to a site next to ours....

The spots are gravel and level, nothing special. Our site was a full hook up with a 50 amp service.

There's several diesel sources right down the road. If were you I'd avoid Chris, fill up down the road and keep going.

The owner/manager is a blowhard who seems too take weird delight in confusing weary travelers who are asking simple questions about local stuff. (Though I doubt he would have been so obnoxious to my husband.) He also thought it was necessarily to tell me what he thinks of the state's governor, though I never mentioned politics. Campground was ok, clean.