Great Sand Dunes Oasis

The 2 women running this place were behind a plexiglass wall with masks on and wouldn't even answer my husband's question- who was standing outside! Unless he put a mask on! The doors were all locked and if you needed something for supplies you had to ask from outside the plexiglass barrier and they'd go get it for you. They even have the biffys placed 6' apart with stickers stating to stay 6' apart. There is safe and then there's ridiculous. This was rediculous!

Excelent service. Restaurant, campground with clean hot showers, gas station and board renting.

We checked in around 3pm before going to the national park. They only had tent sites available which worked out better for us because we didn’t need hookups. The tent sites had amazing views of the valley and the sand dunes! The roads to the tent sites were pretty rough and it was difficult to find a site that was level. There was a level site we found but it had 3 tombstones on it so we decided to pass on that site… We found another that was pretty level and had an amazing view! We were between the tent restrooms and the RV restrooms. The tent restrooms were in an old converted train car up the hill. They were very clean. The RV bathroom was a bit of a walk from the tent sites but we made the trek to use the showers. My 3 year old loved the playground that was by the RV sites and she played until the sun set. Then we made the trek back up to the tent area and had a peaceful night sleep.

Called them a few days ago to back up our stay by 1 day due to a mechanical issue with our van that put us behind. No problem. Site 13 was perfectly level. Didn’t need the restaurant, but I took a peek at the dessert display and it looked pretty awesome.

This campground is eight outside Great Sand Dunes NP. It has clean showers and restrooms. There is no laundry facility. The campsites are squeezed closely together. It was very windy. I recommend the location of the park and a one night stay.

They are open for business! They are having a temporary phone problem, visitors center as well.

We didn't stay here, but have some useful info to drop for those who don't care to stay here either, but find themselves confronted with opposition of varying assortments while staying at the San Luis or the Great Sand Dunes themselves.

You can shower here for $5 / person. The showers are hot, and four of us took long ones (after days playing in the sand and nearby forests without the option). They never ran out of hot water. Lovely.

Same with laundry, but there's no additional fee to us the laundry.

The store here sells beer, including craft beer. This is good to know because Alamosa is about 40 minutes away and the closest place to get good brews. Check out the brewery in that town if you make the trek.

They also sell firewood and this is where you rent the sandboards and sleds if you want to do that at the park.

You can also get decent AT&T service here, good enough to get things done (as opposed to inside of the park, where even when it reads 2 - 3 bars, the traffic was heavy enough to render it useless).

There's a decent playground here with a spectacular view, though how the RV spots are setup, only the guy on the end gets the full on view of the dunes and mountains in the park, and they're really close together.

This place is a nice, quiet, convenient spot right outside the Great Sand Dune’s National Park. The bathrooms appeared to have recently been renovated. They were spotless and very nice. The people at check-in were really helpful and friendly. You can rent sand boards in Sand slides right on site at their store. The store opens at 8 AM and the breakfast there was great. We were supposed to stay inside the national Park our second night, but were warned that the NP sites are very hard for larger rigs to get into. The Oasis staff were able to get us a different site at their park so we could stay a second night rather than inside the park. Great experience.

The only issue we had was that we have a 36 foot trailer, and while the sites were listed as pull through, they are very narrow and you have to take a very short turn to get into them. You will have to back up several times to get in without hitting the grill or the table on either side.

We chose this RV Park simply because of its proximity to the National Park. If we're going to be gone from the RV most of the day, the quality of the RV Park matters less to us than the location. That said, we didn't have much to complain about here, and we're glad we chose Sand Dunes Oasis. The RV Park is just one long row of narrow RV sites with an occasional tree or shrub to separate them. They're pull-through sites, but because our site was so narrow and had a tree at the back corner, we would have had much more success backing into it than we did pulling in with our 41-foot rig. In addition to the relatively small RV Park, there's a much larger camping area in the woods for tents and small trailers (no hookups), which was great for walking our dog. Unfortunately during our stay in June 2019 the mosquitos were out in force, and we were being bitten non-stop within minutes of arriving. Any time we went outside we had to coat ourselves in DEET first. This is common in the area, and the mosquitos were very bad at the National Park as well. AT&T worked pretty well and the utilities worked fine. Our view of the dunes from the RV Park was scenic, even though the RV Park itself was little more than a gravel parking lot. If you don't mind a longer drive to get to the National Park, there are other options 20 minutes further away, but for maximum convenience this RV Park is literally right outside the entrance to the National Park.

Not well cared for. Trash dumpster totally full😡 Blowing garbage