Las Cruces KOA

Have stayed at this KOA the last 3 winters on the way to Arizona. Very friendly and helpful staff. Great doggie exercise area. Grounds are kept very clean. Sites are raked and clean as soon as someone pulls out. Bathrooms are clean and the laundry facilities are excellent. A bonus is the very pretty views of the night lights of Las Cruces. Highly recommend for an overnight stop or a few days stay!!

Called at 3pm, pulled in by 5:30! Great view. Clean amenities!

Stayed at this KOA on a recent trip to San Diego. Would definatly recommend springing for a premium site or view site. The service was excellent. Clean bathrooms and pool facilities. This place is short on shade and the pool was very refreshing!! We plan on going back when we can spend a few days there.

One of the smaller parks we’ve stayed at this trip (a good thing), it is terraced on a hill offering panoramic views of the town and mountains. A mix of pull through and back in sites as well as some really cool tent sites. Full hookups, no cable, and full facilities. All sites apparently have 30 and 50 amp service and our surge protection device did not like the 30 amp service - service would start, stay on a few minutes and shut down without blowing the breaker however our plug was getting hotter so we broke out the 50 amp adapter and have had no issues since. Staff is friendly and accommodating and there is a nicely appointed store as well as coffee and pastries every morning.

Slips are unusual in that they are gravel with concrete “strips” for the wheels. Ours was perfectly level although barely long enough for the combined 50 Ft of our rig. And, no grass for the pups. Speaking of grass, I cast no dispersions however

2G and 5G networks are available and speeds vary widely from 3 Mb - 24 Mb. In addition to erratic performance, we were dropped and then almost immediately reconnected numerous times on both networks. Further investigation revealed rumors about a three legged hamster on a wheel in a cage littered with Pepperidge Farm Milano cookies, some rolling papers and a vinyl copy of “Dark Side of the Moon”. There was foil on the roof of the cage and a black light providing the only illumination. Too tired to break out Dishy, I decided to grin and bear it. Should have enough bandwidth to post this epic. We give it a 6/10 due to electric issue, lack of usable internet and lack of grass for the pups. $63/night.

Pride in ownership shows in this park. I would rate this in my top 5 KOA's that we have stayed in.

Stayed one night and wished we had time to stay longer. Clean, well maintained campground with a variety of spaces. Clean restrooms and shower. Strong wifi. Friendly staff and a gorgeous view. It was also decorated nicely for Christmas. Close drive to restaurants and shopping.

Just a stop over for us, close to I-10. This is an average KOA, the amenities were good. Park is on a hill overlooking the city and mountains. Free coffee and pastries in the morning. Friendly staff, overall a good experience.

Many HDTV channels, AT&T cell service was excellent (5 bars of 5G), didn't set up the booster. Camp wifi worked well.

The campground is situated on the western slope that drops down into the city. It’s located a few blocks north of I-10, so there’s some road noise but not enough to be noticeable inside the RV. The road into the campground and up to the office is a bit steep but short. The campground as a whole is slightly sloped, with the back of the campground higher than the front. Even though our site (site 59) had us perpendicular to the slope, it was pretty level side-to-side. All of the RV sites have gravel surfaces, with concrete strips for you to park your tires on (although the office told us we could park anywhere in the site as long as we didn’t stick out onto the roads, which are all paved). Our site was long enough that we could have stayed hooked up and still had plenty of room to spare, and while most of the sites weren’t quite as long many of them are big-rig friendly. The regular sites have picnic tables and some have an adjacent tree: none of them have leaves while we were there so I can’t speak to the kind of shade they provide.

In terms of a view, the best sites are the ones on the eastern side of the park, which have a great view of the city below and the mountains beyond: a number of those sites are designated as both pull-in or back-in sites, depending on your preference. All residents of the campground can get a similar unobstructed view from the communal firepit located at the northeast corner of the campground, accessible via a short walking path. The mountains glow in red and purple hues at sunset.

The enclosed dog park is larger than average, with an airlock-style gate and several benches to sit on, with two benches located under a large pergola. Most of the park surface is sandy dirt with some gravel, but there is a rectangle of sod in the middle for those dogs that just have to have some grass. There are solar-powered lights attached to the fencing at regular intervals, which provided decent lighting at night until they run out of juice (though the lights from the office ensure the park is never completely dark). The dog park and the aforementioned walking path are really the only decent places to walk dogs within the campground, though it wasn’t an issue for us during our 6-day stay.

In terms of cell service, the best speed I got on my Verizon Jetpack with MIMO antenna was 7Mbps down and 13 up, but other than occasional buffering we didn’t have any issues streaming in the evening. I did experience the occasional drop and slowdown on Verizon during my workday, most noticeably when I was on a video call, but when that happened I could switch over to the free campground WiFi, which I clocked at 20Mbps down and 2 up. The best speed I got on my AT&T smartphone was 28Mbps down and 16 up.

Overall, this is a pretty nice, clean campground. The only negative that comes to mind is that the dump station has no hose, but maybe they don’t feel a need for it given there are only 4 sites without sewer hookups.

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

We had a nice site with views of the mountains during the day and city lights at night. We are traveling in a motorhome so pulled in to enjoy these views from our seats as it was a cool evening. The site has hook ups on both sides so backing in is also an option. The park is easy to access off I 10. Check in was friendly and efficient. A nice spot to stay while passing thru the area.

The Best KOA! I have been to several KOA's and this one beats them all. The staf was incredible, the entire campground is spotless and the site I had was outstanding. Showers were modern and clean. We will defintiely be coming back