Tucumcari KOA

Stayed here mid-Sept 2023.
Pull-through 50 amp FHU. Site #93 (Site 92 and 91 are unfinished so there is extra space where those sites would be).
We would have absolutely liked to stay here for the full week but we were not able to connect to vpn for work (Verizon or AT&T—unstable).

THE GOOD:
Staff: Very friendly staff!
Check-in: The staff gives you warm cookies and offer sign-up for deliver-to-door breakfast next morning!
Sites: Well maintained and generally level.
Location: 5 min from Love's gas, Rt 66, and restaurants.
Grounds: Very clean and connects with a beautiful farm with peaceful views.

THE BAD:
Nothing of note

WORTH NOTING (not good or terrible)
Sites: The pull through sites are buddy sites.
Cell: The cell service shows as acceptable BUT it is not stable at all for any work. This is simply the result of location and not reflective of the campground.

I’m a year late with this review from 7/2022. It was a great place to stay. We arrived after hours and easily found our site. The campground is clean, in great shape. They offer breakfast room service at a reasonable price and it was so nice to not have to leave and find a spot to eat. We would definitely recommend Tucumcari KOA and will stay here again.

The owners of this KOA works hard to make this an excellent place to stay. The location makes it a perfect to stop during your travels. There is, a shaded dog park a lovely pool and the option to have breakfast delivered to our Airstream and a a bucket tracker train ride for kids. The grounds are well kept and the sites are level. Bathrooms are very clean. We definitely put this park high in our list!

The previous review says it all and it's still true in May of '23. We overnighted in site 28 which is an electric and water site. The showers had good hot water and pressure. While our cell phones worked well I needed to put the Weboost out to use our T-Mobile hotspot.
There's a 24/7 Conoco fuel station on the other side of I-40 with decent diesel prices compared to the truck stops.
And yes, free cookies!

Originally meant to be a one-night stay, we extended our stay a day because the winds were too strong to safely continue our journey, and they had no trouble accommodating us. The campground is right off of Route 66, and close enough to I-40 to see the traffic go by, but the road noise wasn’t bad. With the exception of the interior roads surrounding the office building area, the roads are a mix of dirt and gravel. Most of the sites have gravel pads with grass lawns; the back row has concrete pads. All of the sites have picnic tables, and most if not all have BBQ grills. Many of the sites have adjacent trees that provide some shade. We positioned ourselves on the far left side of the pad in site 16 to ensure our living room slide didn’t get close to the one tree. The hookups are in a typical spot, but we did share the power pole and water spigots with the adjoining site: most of the pull-through sites in the first two rows are buddy sites. Our site did have a cable TV hookup, but they were between cable providers at the time so it was non-functional. We were able to pick up a few digital TV channels (mostly PBS) with our antenna.

The campground has most of the typical KOA amenities. There is a small convenience store attached to the office with milk, sodas, snacks, some camping supplies and souvenirs. The same building also contains bathrooms, showers, and laundry facilities. Next to the office building is a kid’s playground, the pool area, horseshoe pits, a shuffleboard area, and a basketball court. There is a small detached recreation room with some chairs and a pool table, and a propane refill station behind the office, though they weren’t offering refill service at the time (they recently changed ownership and I’m guessing they didn’t have anyone on staff certified to provide the service). There is an additional bathhouse at the back end of the campground. They have two fairly small dog runs next to the recreation room, and a pet walk area behind some of the tent sites, so we had no problem finding places to walk our dog.

While we didn’t take advantage of it, they offer a breakfast service where you can place your order the night before and they will bring a hot breakfast (pancakes, eggs, sausage, coffee) to your site between 7am and 8am.

In terms of cell service, I had a very strong Verizon signal on my Verizon Jetpack with MIMO antenna, but pretty much 0 bandwidth. Normally when I see that, I can get decent speeds in the very early morning hours, when my hotspot is no longer competing against smartphones that get priority over the hotspot, but not here: the Verizon connection was useless at all hours. In contrast, I saw speeds of 104Mbps down and 13 up on my AT&T smartphone. We did try the campground WiFi, but it was barely useable.

We would stay here again for an overnight stay if we were in the area.