Slant rhyme summary: draconian rules, beautiful views!…read more In the winter, this place is open 8am to 6pm. You can leave this campground anytime (insert boomer Hotel California Dad joke here), but you can't get back in. How do they accomplish this? The road into the campground is gated. The gate is locked on one side (driver's right) and the other side is open, BUT it has those one-way spikes like the rental car agencies have. This is brutal. We were here trying to do rock climbs in the Organs and we had to SPEED back into the campground to not miss the 6pm cutoff. It made it impossible to enjoy the lovely eateries and breweries in Las Cruces so...we chose not to sleep here for multiple nights and just leave our tent setup. Having said all that, this campground is immaculate. It's one of the nicest public campgrounds I've stayed at. Every site has a fire ring, a grill, a picnic table WITH a minipavillion, and a flat area to pitch a tent. To top it all off, it's only $7 a night and has amazing views of the Organ mountains! My guess is that this area has problems with rampant vandalism (many of the Organ mountain trailheads are also locked from 8am to 6pm) and is maybe understaffed, so this is their solution to the issues. If you go to bed early and are really good at cooking in a campground, this is the spot for you. If you're the type of person that likes big days in the mountains followed by hiking out by headlamp followed by crispy brews in town...look elsewhere.

This is a beautiful campground nestled in the Organ Mountains. We came on a weekend evening and…read morewere able to find an unoccupied tent site. This is the closest campground I found near White Sands; it was about a 40 minute drive. The stars were beautiful. Make sure to bring exactly $7 cash as you deposit it into the box to get a permit. There were picnic tables and grills for each campsite. We had a nearby garbage bin. The vault toilets were surprisingly very, very clean. The Pine Loop Trail was a lovely four-mile hike that starts right by the campground. It takes you up into the mountains, and it took us about two hours to complete. There were many false trails that weren't marked. It's rated as moderate, although I think it was more challenging.

Great place for an overnight stay on our voyage. Check-in was easy even though we arrived a tad…read morelate. We did briefly talk to one of the staff, very nice! She even invited us to the ice cream social. Unfortunately we were a bit tired. The pull thru site we parked in was long and very wide, even for a 42 ft fifth wheel with slides in both sides. Good Sam's discount and very reasonable price. Definitely worth the stay.

Little Vineyard RV Resort was clean, quiet, and had a lot to offer. The price was great and the…read morestaff was very nice. They give Goodsams discounts.

If I could give a zero, I would. The old, cranky, ugly, overweight woman host was the worse. She…read morepunched my car window after she stormed our car. She was insane. i would NEVER stay here....she was actually horrible!!!!!

The campground host STEVE was completely utterly rude and racist the whole entire time we were…read morethere. From the very begging he sent to us to a wrong campsite, harassed our family, and REFUSED to let my two of my family members shower because he said we left the area "Trashed" we asked him to explain where and what was left trashed and drove away and almost ran me off and did not want to provide a name or number neither manager or supervisor name and to mention me and my family are mexican and hispanic. The campsite overall was beautiful but the HOST STEVE WAS COMPLETELY AND UNNECESSARILY DISRESPECTFUL. IN FACT I WILL STILL LIKE A SUPERVISOR NUMBER ONCE THIS REVIEW IS READ WE WILL BE TAKING ACTION.

Beautiful, quiet park with clean camping facilities. Has restrooms and showers. Great sleeping in…read morethe Chihuahua desert. Close proximity to White Sands and Los Alamos. There is the Dog Canyon trail, which is worth the trek. We didn't make it all the way through due to timing, but will definitely be back to finish.

Quiet and spacious campground for star gazing and close to White Sands NP. We would definitely stay…read morehere again. Friendly camp hosts. They also have sleds to borrow at the camp host station for sledding the dunes at White Sands.

Slow Play RV park in Ruidoso was well maintained and quiet. The restroom and showers were clean…read more The staff were helpful and the owner sent the maintenance guy with a wrench when we needed to disconnect our battery. When I asked where to dump my gray water, the owner came to my site to show me where it was. We would return here if we go back to Ruidoso. I would have liked to have more trees and little more shade, that is why I did not give them 5 stars.

We are about 10 days into our 14 day stay here. I'm sitting here on the Saturday of Labor Day…read moreWeekend and I thought I would go ahead and do my review of Slow Play. Normally, when we are first time in an area and RV park, at some point we cruise through the other RV parks to see if we might find one we like for our next time in the area. Not here. We like this park and the owners so much, we have not driven through any of the MANY campgrounds in Ruidoso. We will definitely return for at least a month (escaping the Texas heat). To keep it simple, I will ditto all the positive comments about Slow Play. The few negative comments occurred during the previous owner. This young couple have owned Slow Play for a couple of years (?) and actually run the place and are present "all the time". We are on a two month moho trip and selected Ruidoso as our last stop before heading home to central Texas. We had never been to Ruidoso, so we decided to stay two weeks and get to know the area, plus not traveling over the Labor Day weekend. I'm glad we did. I could actually stay longer, but time to get home. Other reviews mention that some campsites have permanent rigs/residents. This is a separate area and well maintained. The occupants are actually friendly; they wave and speak as we walk our dog. During our stay, the owners threw a get together for all the campers. Unfortunately, we were unable to attend. I have nothing negative to say. I really don't have any recommendations for improvement. The only better campground I have stayed in was the resorts that charge 100 plus a day; we were full-timers for 10 years and have stayed in a LOT of campgrounds and resorts (be careful of the term "resort").

The main reason I like to go there is because they have clean showers and restrooms to use. How…read moreever this weekend they had them all closed and said due to low water pressure. Didn't find this out until after I paid and set up camp. There was no sign posted when I arrived and paid to get in. No one said anything. Didn't find out till I went to use the restroom and there was a sign on the door saying closed. When I asked at the front desk they said no refunds, as they had a sign saying this. I had mentioned there is no sign saying closed bathrooms and showers due to low water pressure. They didn't put a sign up until a lot of people complained. Was forced to use port a potty's all weekend, there were disgusting and smelly. They didn't get cleaned until the before we were leaving. lThere was no refund given, no apology, and weekend was the most underwhelming of all times that I have camped here. Was disappointed and not sure will give another visit.

Don't leave your vehicle unattended, people will do "donuts" on loose gravel where everyone with…read moreutility trailers park and will damage your property.

If you are going to Hueco Tanks to climb for the 1st time, start here, hire a guide or tag along on…read morea guided tour. Let them guide you through the process. A tour is the easiest method to get into the park. All the guides/tours I have hired have been nice, but this is the easiest method of getting a good guide. I have had nothing but good experiences on the tour groups. Just make sure you can climb at the level range of the tour. It is a business owned by climbers run by climbers. Everyone is nice and loves climbing. The climbing energy is infectious. Sometimes the facilities could be better and cleaner. The area seems to be getting better. There are flush toilets! The campground is the easiest one to get into. The National Park Campground is a plan ahead reservation system and can be trying. It is a bunch of climbers running amok, but it is not as bad it could be. The majority of the peeps are here to climb hard. If you are not into camping or a hostel environment El Paso has plenty of hotel/motel rooms. I didn't use the Rock Ranch to plan my first trip, but now I get all my guides/tours from here. See you climbing!

Best bet for climbers | Good vibes, cool facility $…read more This place is AWESOME. I wish I knew this place was open during the times I stayed in El Paso to climb at Hueco Tanks though. The time when I usually come to climb in the park is Veterans Day weekend, and that time frame is when they're just starting to open for the season. We went here to rent crash pads. $10/day for the regular 2 fold $15/day for the tri fold *the ones we rented were NEW!!!!! This place is in association with the American Alpine Club, so if you stay here you get a discount if you're a member. From what I saw, there are a couple rooms that have several bunk beds, a couple rooms with single beds, some rooms that have their own bathrooms, a shared bathroom down the hall, a common space area, a bar area, and a shared kitchen. The outside has some training equipment, too. It's just a place full of climbers staying to be close by to the park instead of 45 minutes away in El Paso, near the airport. There is also camping spots available and lots of parking spaces. We'll be back next year and hopefully if they are open we'll be staying here :)