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I live in Los Alamos and use this handy dump station after most of our short trips. Yes, it is free!

Nice, spacious campground near I-40, especially welcome with 60 mph winds all day. Easy access, easy pull in, water even if you don’t pick an electric site. Nice short walks to interesting features when the wind dies down.

Quiet campground on the Clarion River. A few hiking trails. It was nice to have a site on the river, but the parking pad had no gravel, only wet, slick grass that had my tires spinning when I tried to straighten up the rig. It seems a recently installed culvert took water from the upper campground loop and released it on sites 37, 36. Muddy or slippery mess. Avoid those sites and if in an RV shy away from the upper loop where the sites were anything but level.

Lots of sites, each site with lots of room and good screening between sites. It was a little odd to have electricity but no water hookup, but you can’t complain when the park is quiet and the sites level. Nice biking trails, and we walked the shore of Lake Erie on a nice path. The swamp trail is great…bald eagles, egrets, even a trumpeter swan. Signs are great to get to the beaches and golf course, but you need the map to find the swamp trail.

Traveling from the Bay Area to New Mexico, this was a welcome stop along the “Loneliest Highway.” Pulled in at 3 PM, lots of sites for small rigs (Class B) or tents. Filled up by 5 PM. Not all sites looked level, site 7 worked for us. Minimal traffic noise all night. Delightful wildflower walk on the dirt road across the highway from the campground, heading toward the high peak that made the campground so scenic.