Lavaland RV Park

Decided to stop and see El Malpais National Monument and Lavaland is across the street from the visitors center. It's next to I-40, but we had very little road noise. Small pines between each dirt site. We had 50 amp FHUs and an easy-to-level space. It would be tight if the park were full, but we had lots of room for our stay. Very nice owner, great rate, quiet, safe and clean.

Nothing pretty about the park, but for visiting the two national monuments in the area it was perfect. New Walmart across the freeway, several decent restaurants, easy access fuel locations - Grants is a small town with nice people.

The KOA further west is not nearly as nice, and they charge $47/night. Definitely stay here if you're in the area. Park WiFi weak.

Older park in desperate need of some financial TLC.

We escaped the heat of southern New Mexico and landed here awaiting our next reservation. The park is older with some permanent residents. Everyone is perfectly nice that is a permanent resident, sure some of the trailers are older but with one exception they are all cared for and respectable looking.

The park needs some love however. There are picnic benches in disrepair that would be better served if they were simply removed from the park altogether. The water hookups all leak which the birds appreciate but doesn't make for the most pleasant experience. 30 and 50 amp sites are intermixed throughout the park and unless you specify you want 50amp you are presumed to need only 30amp.

The road noise is awful as the weather gets cooler overnight. Completely understand why and it's expected but don't expect silence if you want to sleep with your windows open in the cooler weather. The park is right off I-40 and there is an Eastbound off-ramp directly in front of the park that truckers readily pull off on at night and catch some sleep. It is LOUD when they use their air brakes and idle for any length of time.

The provided dog run is not a dog run, it is a small pen suitable only for small dogs. The waste receptacle next to the dog run has been full since our arrival and has not been emptied once.

Now for the good. You can get your mailed delivered to the front desk. We had a business and Amazon delivery directly to The Gump by FedEx and UPS. The park wifi was available even at the farthest point from the front office, although it isn't fast. The cell reception was good. There is a Walmart on the other side of the freeway if you need to stock up.

It was a good midpoint to stop at on the way to Santa Fe. If you are a beer enthusiast that's a plus. It was quiet after hours self check was the best. Although there were no hook-up sites available, there was a non hook up site available which is all we needed to rest the night away. Lots are fairly level. Next to highway so there is highway noise, but convenient.

It is mostly a fill time park with shine pretty sketchy characters. The park could be nice if they would clean up the garbage and dead stuff laying around. Very noisy by the gray, shower room only about 45 degrees and they wouldn't turn up the heat. It had been remodeled with nive tile but it is cracking and not being repaired.
Laundry and showers were clean, staff friendly. .

We saw the reviews and were enticed by the adjoining brewery! Fun place. Bar tender had great stories. Nice and clean hot showers. Reasonably priced.

Power water and sewer worked. People were friendly other than that this is an extremely run down and dirty campground. The sites are a mix of sand and stone also so close together you only have room for a lawn chair. If you have a taller camper you will scratch the roof entering some of the sites from trees. Some of the residents have been here for a very very long time along with there campers ;-). Stayed for 2 days in a 38' motor home towing. Can't comment on the bathrooms didn't use them. I would not recommend this campground nor would I come back.

Part time management, no Change for laundry, gravel drives and sites, ok I guess, this is the first time I’ve used a privately owned campground I don’t think I will use one again unless absolutely necessary

Arrival - touchpad at 1600 hrs.

Tips - try to get one of the longer concrete pads vs the dirt pull-thru. We have a 36' TT and 20' TV and used EVERY inch of the site to stay hitched for the night.

Favorite thing - right off I-40 after a long day on the road. Pretty good wi-fi and brewery on-site!

Negatives - site not as long as one was led to believe. Highway noise...but I didn't expect anything less right off the highway.

What to say.... it was a camp ground. Probably the busiest in which I've stayed but that's fine. I think we were the only transients at the location, the other folks seemed to have set up long-term camp.

Pad was a beautiful concrete rectangle and level and utilities were really well placed.

We weren't murdered nor robbed. Nothing crazy happened.... we just very likely wouldn't stay at this location again. As we were leaving, we saw where some neighbors had a small party and left 5 20 packs of beer laying around and all over.

I originally reserved my site online there there site. All sites were very close. I even picked an end site. 1st two nights were fine. I then went ahead and reserved another 3 nights. Only issue at 1st, was the RV parked right next to us kept there awning lights on 24/7. They were deffinantly long term monthly tenants. I than decided to extend for another 3 nights. 1st issue, when I booked the next 3 nights, I asked about the weekly rate. The guy in the office told me there was no weekly rate. There was a weekly rate posted on the website were I made my reservations. 2nd issue, the fine outstanding neighbors came in the 3rd night at 2am being very loud, yelling, parting and screaming. The 3rd issue, the next night, the fine neighbors decided to have a party in there RV being loud well past 11pm. So no, I will not stay here again, nor would I recommend this place.