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David greeted us at check in. Very kind in nice. He could tell we had a long day of driving! He guided us to our site. By the way the man SPRINTED to our site on a 90 degree day to make sure we were alright to get in.
Gave us all the information we needed for our stay as well. Love the PooTin waste baskets too. You will know what I mean when you see them. They are definitely upgrading and maintaining this small park very well. Pretty flowers grown here and there. All in all we enjoyed it very very much. Will 100% come again. If your in the area stop here. It’s worth it.

No longer called Circle the wagons. This is WeRvChampions of La Veta
We had site 30. Perfect for Starlink, talking to the deer right behind your site. The little river walk is very nice for dogs or yourself. Easy walk to up town La Veta or driving to any of the beautiful sites around.
The owners greeted us there and they were super nice and very much involved in all things with the business.
100% will stay there again, can’t wait to be back

Very easy to get to. Very easy to find our site. Was clean. You can see some long term stayers are in need of a bit of clean up but nothing crazy. They are definitely making improvements. One improvement they for sure need is to get a grader in there and level out the streets. Holy buckets are they rough. Otherwise can’t tell you if they were friendly or not because for the two days we were there we didn’t see any camp personal.
Also- spot 139 did not have a picnic table for some reason. That was a little weird. Water pressure is low in this site with a water filter on.
Otherwise pleasant stay. Would stay again.

Had no idea what to expect. Was absolutely surprised by this gem of a campground. Host was super friendly. Even gave us a map for our way east to avoid 10 miles of extra travel.
Pond is very nice, sites are wide and long, no problem for our 38’ rig. 100% will stay again for much longer. Oh yes! Power at site 25 was perfect. No low voltage on either leg.

Going to start out with the bad here.
1. Watch your reservations and make sure you confirm them!! My wife made a reservation for a full hook up site in February of 2022. May 2nd of 2022 she got an email that “looked like” a confirmation of her reservation. (more on this later). First week of June (one week before going from Iowa to Virginia) she called to make sure all was ok. When she did so. She was informed her reservation was canceled! She of course was upset as we had this reservation for a wedding that we were attending. She was told about the email sent on May 2nd that she supposedly canceled. When looking at this email you had to scroll 4 pages down to find the fact they had canceled! Now. In no way shape or form did she cancel. So my wife became insistent that we get our spot back, this was their mistake they need to make it right. In their defense they tried. At first they said we have a 30 amp spot for us (50 amp rig naturally) that we can have. Since we needed the spot we then took it.
2. The Spot- This was spot 4 in the New France Area/overflow. This spot I would call where they would have the help stay honestly.
3. The Water - the site has a make shift water line laid above ground that goes to the other 4 or 5 spots. There is barely any pressure at all. You can tell when other campers are using water because it just trickles out of whatever you are using. So make sure you just use it to fill your onboard tank and use your water pump. Otherwise water was clean or seemed to be
4. The Power- Big issue here. We have Hughes Power Surge. As soon as we hooked up to the 30 amp. We noticed there was a problem. Us and our neighbor couldn’t plug in at the same time because the plugs WERE TOO CLOSE TOGETHER! I fixed it with some elbow grease but holy cow.
We do indeed have 3 air conditioners but not stupid enough to try and run all 30amp. BUT we do have soft starts on them and they are all 13500 BTU and not 15000. This has allowed us across the country to run two AC and our electric water heater 30 amp. Almost immediately power went out. So I shut off one AC. Then it blew again. So switched water heater to gas. This seemed to work. But (if I can load this picture) you will see I was no where near 30 amps with 2 AC and the water heater running. Then I noticed the issue. If you look at Line 2 this says volts 104. This is not good. My PowerWatchdog shuts everything down if below 104 or above 132 as this is dangerous for every electrical thing in your camper. The power after a while seemed to always hover from 104 to 107. Next day 50 amp rig next to us (50amp and 30amp in same pedestal which not unusual these just happened to be tiny) so my wife went up and told them in no uncertain terms that we are switching to 50amp immediately. Which we did. SAME PROBLEM. Low Voltage on Line 2. This went on for a long time. We were only really able to run one AC at a time and didn’t dare run anything else like electric water heater or our air fryer.
So beware of this. Low voltage will ruin an AC very quickly. If you don’t have something like what we have. Get one. It will save you some heart ache.
5. Safety- although we felt very safe. This was because there was police and rangers everywhere! Apparently there was a shooting the Sunday before at the beach. This was told to us by the campground staff anyway. Again. Very safe. Just watch your self there.
6. Getting there- these are tiny roads for the most part getting in and out. So be careful in larger rigs. We have a 38’ and not sure I would want much longer but it would be doable.
The Good

7. Location- outstanding for what we needed to do and for things to do. The Deadrise was and excellent seafood restaurant. Completely recommend it. The Phoebus area is a lot of fun as well.
8. Campground hosts- they were so kind and so nice. Truly saved the trip for us.
I know this is long winded. But wanted to put the warning out there for you folks. I am also emailing the park about the power and water issue. (Even though I told them and they are aware) I want it in writing. They need to do a major electrical upgrade there at the very least.
PS. 5G Verizon is blazing fast there. Super awesome internet.