Northpoint Campground

Beautiful campground. Stunning views of the lake and it is so so quiet. Only 10 dollars for non electric in winter months. We stayed in October and it got down to the low 30's so come prepared. They have a drop of box for the winter months so you can come at whatever time. Beautiful place highly recommend coming to hike around or just for an overnight trip. Lots of rocks where you put up your tent so make sure you don't bend them!

Entrenches which are not the campsites. They could defiantly use better labeling bc it's hard in the campsite shower or real restrooms. Other than that it was nice. Great view of the stars

This was ok. Get off in prewett otherwise you'll waste time going to the 3 OTHER.

I was only going to stay a night or two.. stayed 14 nights. My rate reflects the NM Annual Camping Pass rate. I stayed there in early May 2015, which is before their very busy summer season so the campground was not very busy (I'm loving it). The campground has one electric loop with approximately15 sites, four non-electric loops, and almost unlimited primitive camping at the beach. During my stay, the electric loop remained the busiest, but not completely full. The dry camping area loops were not very busy, however some of the best sites (in my opinion) are reservable. You could still stay one night in those sites if not already reserved. I stayed in site #41 which was on a hill overlooking the lake, great views but a few days windy. For those that like dry camping, some of the best sites are in the Pinion Cliffs Campground loop or the Canyonside CG loop, but those great sites are also the reservable sites (28, 32, 35, 37, 16, 17, 18). Some of the sites, particularly in the Lakeside Campground area would put your trailer front door (if located on the curb side) on the opposite side of the picnic table. Also there is the beach primitive camping that I observed was used by everything from a tent to a large 5th wheel. The VC host told me that in the summer the park is very busy and there will be trailers lined up 2 deep on the beach as well as a full campground. The shower was a bit dated and water was not very hot.

People come here to fish and it appears based upon the the number of fishermen, it is well stocked. There are a few easy, fun hiking trails from the campground. We did two that are located in the canyon, one going to the dam and the other following the canyon. Both follow Bluewater Creek and among the birds we observed were ducks and cliff swallows. The park also has 2 packs of wild horses and grazing sheep and cattle. For a challenging hike, hike Mt Taylor! This TH is accessed about 10 miles north of Grants, NM. It is only 6 miles R/T but is pretty much a steep climb up to approximately 11,310 feet and then a steep descent back.

There is an easy access dump station and FW faucets are located as you get near the electric loop. From my site, Verizon service was great as their is a cell tower on the hill overlooking the campground.

I came here to hike so it was great for that and of course Q got to swim and she loved it. I didn't go, but the Bandera Ice Cave and El Morro NM is close enough.

After a month in the high country of Colorado and northern New Mexico, I'm headed towards hotter weather - something I want to put off as long as possible! I knew that Jen & Q had loved there time here so decided to stack my odds by doing a reservation for an electric (30A) site. My price reflects the $10 basic fee plus the $4 electric upgrade and the $4 service fee for making a reservation. Turns out, they have about 6 electric sites that aren't on the reservation system, and a couple of those were available when I pulled in about 3 p.m. Not always so...

The park is about 6 miles from the freeway, up and over a fairly steep ridge which separates you from any sense of the freeway environment. My site did require 3 lego blocks to level up, but my back window is facing the sunset which is beautiful. The roads are asphalt, the pads are gravel. Facilities are neat and clean, and the whole place is amazingly quiet. The electric sites are near full now, but occupancy in the dry sites looks to be about 15 percent or so on a Monday evening in mid August.

I have no connectivity of any kind on my AT&T phone, but have three bars of Verizon 4G on the MiFi so I didn't use the booster and antenna at all.

Next time, I'll bring the canoe along.

We stayed for one night on our way out of Albuquerque and we wished we had more time here. We came on Labor Day night, so by the time we arrived, the place was ghost town empty. It rained lightly that night and the ambiance was almost eerily peaceful. I recommend hiking around the site to the canyonside and you will get some gorgeous views. The onsite host looked like Santa Claus and was very friendly. There is a peppery and musky scent from the pines nearby that is intoxicating. I wanted to bottle up the smell and take it home.

The "town" that you pass through to get to the park is very interesting to say the least. I don't think they have a building code or CC&Rs or anything that keeps you from having a shack as a house. It's a random mix of real houses and RVs and chicken coops. No stores nearby, keep that in mind.

We'd love to come back and spend more time here one day.

We came here for the horses and they did not disappoint. It was mid-Oct and the cg is totally self serve. No one at the office and while there was a host, I never saw them. We figured it out eventually and decided the beach boon docking was the place for us. There is one section near the boat ramp that is marked no camping, but the rest is open and you can park as close to the water as you like. A few hours after we arrived, the horses did too. They spent most of the day around us, it was awesome. At night, it's not the darkest skies I've ever seen, but it was quiet, except for some coyote rowdiness in the wee hours. The biggest downside was the wind. It was windy, and I'm told that's not uncommon. Also, only one shower was open and that was in the electric loop, so I didn't try it. Down by the lake I had 2 bars Verizon, zero ATT and Tmobile. It's supposed to pour today or I'd stay another night, while the ground feels pretty solid, there's no point chancing getting stuck.

When we arrived late at night we picked an electric site (#6). The site only had electric hook-up. There is a drinking water fill station and a seperate dump station. The electric site was $14. That night the sky was clear and we could easily see the Milky Way. The temperature dropped down in the low 30's.

The following morning, we noticed the other side of the campground had better views of the lake so we moved to site #34. Since this site was dry camping it was only $10. The second night temperatures dropped down to the low 40's.

The campground seemed almost full on Sunday night but by Monday morning it was down to a few campers spread out. We had to drive down to the lake to see the horses. There was a nice trail that overlooked the damn. We have a 30' airstream that we pull with an Excursion; we fit very well in both sites. Overall we had a very good time.

We stayed here on the week leading up to Easter weekend. Although it was mildly busy when we arrived the preceding Sunday, it was completely dead during the week before absolutely exploding on Thursday and Friday - it was completely full by the weekend. We were one of 10 campers on Wednesday night and one of around 50 on Thursday night.

There are a variety of camping options here. There are some loops that have electric for $14, plenty of dry camping loops for $10, and primitive beach camping for $8. The beach camping was pretty rowdy with big groups on the weekends so we opted for a dry camping loop. We stayed the first night at Canyonside (which backs up to the canyon and some short hikes with nice views) and then moved over the Northpoint loop (which has a nice view and access to the lake). The electric sites have the least of a view and privacy, and at the time of our stay there was an entire loop still closed for the season which was mostly dry sites.

Access is easy a few miles down a paved road. There is a free dump station just inside the entrance to the park and there are potable water spigots placed around the park for a fill up. Payment is done at a drop box but you are given tags to hang on the vehicles and this is definitely enforced (at least on Friday night they were checking).

The feral horses are pretty cool, it seemed to be a herd of around 20-30 horses hanging around for the week. There were two babies that were a blast to watch, and one big male who kept causing some trouble. They seemed very comfortable with humans although they were very uncomfortable around dogs.

The Verizon 4G LTE was usable but seemed to experience some overloading on the nights and weekends - during the day it was pretty stable around 3 Mb/s.

Tent camped here for 2 nights. The second night was quite windy since my campsite was near the cliff overlooking the lake. Friday night was quiet and peaceful; Saturday night not so due to people on the other side of the lake running ATV's for several hours so if you want peace and quiet better to stay during the week as there is a lot of Albuquerque campers on weekend.