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There are not a lot of RV camping choices around Brownfield. In fact, I think you have Buggies, and you have Coleman Park. We looked at Coleman Park, and thought - no thank you -, and then we doubled back to Buggies.

There was a warm reception with the counter person. He didn't try to assign us a site, just told us where we might find the most level one. We made a circle and selected something closer to the road, and further away from the full timers.

Full service, and everything was working and easy to get to. Some of the park is gravel, some is sand, some is crushed asphalt, and some of the road is combination of all three. It was quiet with the exception of the hwy noise that diminishes late at night.

I don't believe we had internet. I link my internet with my cell phone, as I don't try and stream movies. No recycling.

I guess you might want to call this dispersed camping within designated areas on the South Shore Access Road, off of Red Rock Rd. Areas are marked off by posts and cables to keep vehicles confined. There are no designated sites, per se. So, it is difficult to say how many rigs the area will hold. It all depends on how much room people leave for others when they park. We parked parallel to the road, near the vault toilet. However, other rigs were parked diagonally closer to the lake's bank. There were some large rigs there. I would say there is room for about 12 rigs. The area is also located in a cattle grazing pasture and we had one white bull within a stone throw's from our rig. He was enjoying the October grasses and ignoring the fishermen.

The area is easy access by a gravel road running north of Red Rock Rd, just pass the commercial RV Park.

There are no services, except a boat ramp and a vault toilet.

The fishing can be very good at times on Henry's Lake.

This Famcamp is open to Active Duty, National Guard, Reservists, Retired Military, 100% DAV, PH Recipients, Veteran Caregivers, and DoD Civilians.

No reservations, FHU, gated inside the Gila Bend AF Station, just south of Gila Bend, AZ.

Some long timers it appears, as I saw at least one Class A on blocks, unable to roll.

If you arrive M-F between 0630 and 1700, you can check in at the Lodging Reception, bldg 4300. Otherwise, find an open site, park your rig, and walk over to Building 4300 and use a Registration Envelope and the Drop Box between the sliding glass doors.

The only noise really, were the fighter jets out of Luke AFB doing touch and gos on the tarmac in the morning. Pretty cool!

This was our first visit to this annex of Ponderosa State Park in 3 years. There have been a few 'improvements' including new aluminum picnic tables and new site number posts, but its pretty much the same as we saw it in 2020.

It is a FCFS campground, with no camp host and very few amenities. There is a hand pump where one can get water if you have a water jug to put it in. Their is one vault toilet in the campground and access to the North Fork of the Payette River that empties to the beautiful Payette Lake. Our nightly rate considers that we have an annual Idaho Parks and Recreation Pass. Otherwise, you need to pay an additional $7 a day if you are an Idaho resident, or $55 a day if you are not an Idaho resident and don't have an annual Idaho Parks and Recreation Pass. Idaho thinks a lot of their parks.

The North Fork of the Payette River is a slow meandering crystal clear stream that is a paddler's paradise for anyone in a canoe, kayak, or stand-up paddle board. It takes about an hour to slowly paddle down to the North Beach Day Use Area on the north bank of Payette Lake. There is a concessionaire there at the day use area that rents out canoes, SUPs, or kayaks for ~$70 a day, if you don't have your own. The river is busy in the summer months and the campground was either full, or nearly full, every night we were there during the week in mid-August.

There will be a nice State Park's person driving through once or twice a day, but otherwise you are on your own. Some of the sites are close together with little understory or cover separating the sites, while other sites are nicely grown up to give a lot of privacy. The amount of noise you experience will depend on your neighbors.

After early October, the Ashton public dump station is one of the few still opened from Rexburg to West Yellowstone. Recently, they have improved the facility with workable flush-out hoses, and have made this the first 'vending' dump Station that I've seen.

There are 4 vending machines with dump holes that take a credit card or cash. Once the transaction is approved, the user has 1 minute to open the foot valve to insert your sewage hose. No time limit on how long you keep the flap open.

The site is level with plenty of room to maneuver or wait, and potable water is also located at the dump station.

BLM calls this area, Irish Canyons. Although we used the Sandthrax coordinates to get to it. However, Sandthrax is an appropriate name in that the fine sand is the campground.

There are 2 entrances, one near the Irish Canyons trail head, right off the hwy, and the other approximately 400 feet further to the east. However, it is not advised that you try and enter one entrance and come out the other as there is a 'sand trap' of broken up sand that can bury most rigs. There was a 4x pickup truck towing another 4x pickup truck on a flat bed trailer that attempted to get across the trap and got stuck...at 2200 at night. They got unstuck by driving off the towed vehicle, driving around to the front of the stuck vehicle and pulling the truck the trailer out.

Some of the area actually has new fire rings at some of the sites. No water, trash, or any other convenience.

The view is very nice and the highway traffic is almost nothing at night.

Big rigs could use the entrance further to the west.

Smiley Creek RV Dump Station is located on the East side of Idaho Hwy 75, across the road from the Smiley Creek RV Campground and Store, next to the airfield. It also has garbage and recyclables bins colocated. There is a $5 honor system fee. Both potable and flushing water is available, albeit, the flushing hose had some freeze cracked piping that disabled its use. You could use the potable water supply to flush your tank if you had 45 feet of garden hose to attach to the end.

The station is easy access.

We chose to stay here after abandoning a try at the Cameron Trading Post RV Park just up the road. It had rained or snowed all day in the region, so we found the Cameron Trading Post unsuitable because of all of the mud. We came back here for a night. There are not many options between Flagstaff and Paige.

We found a spot a little ways away from the trucks, along the southern part of the back parking lot. We shared the lot with about 15 or so trucks that were coming and going throughout the night. Many of the trucks kept their engines running throughout the night for their cold loads.

We talked to Fred, one of the managers who said we were ok to stay the night. We of course bought some Native American jewelry from him, as well as a tank of diesel fuel.

It’s a paved lot with some lights, not very level to the north by the fence, but better to the south. We had our leveler blocks down and our slide out. Nobody seemed to care except that we were a little harassed by a local with loud pipes on his truck and a bright white light bar shining through the blinds around 2330 at night. I still felt secure.

The station has a gift shop, convenience store, deli, a Burger King, and of course restrooms. There is also a free dump site in the parking lot, however the water was not turned on in late March.

No TV reception, and very few FM radio stations. Very little road noise, only the truck engines.

I'm not sure why anyone would stay here more than one night, unless you were working in Saratoga Springs, or another local town. Its just open field with very little to no ground cover. Certainly, I would not want to try this area when its wet as I believe the mud would be tough, although the road in has plenty of rock. I would just be leery about pulling off onto the dirt/mud if it was very wet.

Good cell coverage with Verizon. No amenities and our spot was not very level. Easy to find. We saw a couple of rigs that looked like they maybe longer term residents with wind generators and large propane tanks.

But, for one night just passing through, its a decent stopover away from I-15 and the road south back to the freeway is very scenic.

As others have reported, this is a rest area on I-10 Eastbound at mile post 135. It's a circular thing with a few sites for RVs and some for Trucks. There is 24 security on site provided by a civilian security company. I appeared lost to the security guard as I circled, and when I pulled into a RV site, he rolled his window down and gave me a thumbs up! I went over and asked him if it was ok to put my slide out, and he said 'Sure, whatever I needed to do'. All of the sites are really out of the drive lanes, and we felt secure here, albeit, some of the trucks come in pretty 'hot'. Yes, there are numerous trucks throughout the night and you can hear them, but it's okay for a night.