White's City RV Park

It is the worst place I have ever stayed. Flies everywhere, dog droppings, cigarette butts, beer caps and trash were all over the ground. This is a run down work camp. If I had seen the campground before paying I would have went somewhere else. On the good side, wifi did work good. I would never stay here again. We are hooking up to leave now.

Just a parking lot with hookups. Seemed full-timers have better sites. Only stayed here because of location to Carlsbad. One night is doable.

We were placed in the parking lot outside of the actual RV park; not sure why other than short term stay!? Our slides were inches away from our neighbors slides; and forget about the picnic tables, they were all underneath everyone’s slides! VERY TIGHT! Gravel, no restaurants, nothing to do EXCEPT THE MAGNIFICENT CARLSBAD CAVERNS! Only reason to park here is Caverns! It felt surreal, like a movie set or a ghost town…. WEIRD! We did not feel safe. Caverns were a 10! Whites City RV was a 1.

I found the staff to be friendly and we had all that we needed. Nice sunsets. It's the best place to stay if your going to the caverns. I have 4 kids and I felt safe here.

I guess the location is the reason it's so expensive. We paid $36 a night with a Good Sam discount. The best part is that it's 7 miles from the Carlsbad Caverns National Park visitors center. It's 1/4 mile from the entrance.

The RV park itself was just okay. The sites were pretty close, but we never had neighbors. Some of the permanent residents' trailers were falling apart. Literally.

Also, there seemed to be dog poop everywhere. Not the parks fault, but it speaks to the crowd that stayed there.

Wifi was decent.
Password: happystay
5.40 mbps down
0.74 mbps up

If your goal is to camp as close to the caverns as possible and amenities aren't a major necessity then this is the place to be. It's the ONLY campsite at the entrance to the national park. We camped on the lower loop and the bathrooms left a lot to be desired. There was only one room that contained your shower, toilet, and sink with bugs and big black beetles that crawled in from under the crack in the door. I think that most people in the low camping section live there full time so the bathroom, thankfully, was never occupied. Not sure when their cleaning crew comes in (if ever) but I was getting nervous about the toilet paper running out. I was told the upper loop sites' bathrooms were in much better shape. There is full hook ups at the RV sites and a laundry room with machines that worked really well. The wifi was decent. One thing I did like about the campsites was that there is a full shelter over the picnic tables. We used the recycling bins at the entrance of the National Park to unload our plastics, aluminum, and glass. The trash at the campsite was overflowing and wasn't changed the two days we were there. On the corner is a credit-only gas station, small grocery, souvenir shop, hotel, and restaurant - if you need anything more than that (like alcohol or something other than junk food) you will have to drive 30 minutes in to the town of Carlsbad.

We stayed here two nights while visiting the Cavern in late June. You have to check in at the Gift shop or after 8pm, at the hotel. There are signs telling you where to check in but they are small and hard to see. There are two areas to the park, a 30amp and 50amp section. The 30amp is very tight and I was warned that with slide outs I might not fit. I asked if I could have a spot in the 50amp and was given one. They will loan you a 50amp dog bone with a $30 cash deposit. All sites except the end sites share a common area, two picnic tables under one cover between the spaces. We did have a neighbor but never saw them. This park is full of mostly full timers and their rigs are not in the best of shape.
Across from the RV park there is a hotel with a small water park. It costs $5 per person if you are a guest at the RV park. For the money it was well worth it. We really enjoyed the water slides and the pool.
The main reason for staying here was the proximity to the Caverns. It is literally right at the entrance to the park. The road leading up to the caverns has some great views! We did go into Carlsbad for food and a drive in movie as well, it was about a 30 minute drive into town.

After boondocking for a week under very windy conditions, having full hookups was a nice break. We only meant to stay a night or two to visit the caverns but wind and soreness made us wait another night.

We paid for 50 amp hookups which put us in the upper loop (I think). The bath house was open air with shower curtains in front of the women's toilets and the showers open with no privacy at all. They were clean, though, with the trash collected frequently. RV spots were in very close proximity but there were plenty of empty tent spaces with grass and the like for the pups to poke around in.

They offered a lot of coverage over their picnic tables, which was very nice. There were also trash carts spaced well so I never had to carry dog poop for very long.

They do not take reservations, but if you are within an hour or so - call them

Looking online we found this is the closest to Carlsbad Caverns - and it was. The turn-in to the RV park is on the road to the caverns so it was really convenient to go there. Anyone coming to see Carlsbad Caverns - try to stay here for sure.

The spots were a bit tight and each of them shares the table and covering with the site next to it. Not a big deal because we had a really nice neighbor.

The whole park was pretty full at the time we were passing through because of pipelines being built in the area are keeping many parks full.

About 30 minutes drive from Carlsbad (grocery and affordable fuel) and only 30 minutes from Guadalupe Mountains National Park.

The park is worn out and not so much fun for the kids, but they had a good time.

If you want to be close to the park entrance fine...if you value a clean campground, level sites, a little separation from your neighbors, or need to use the shower or toilet (one of each for each gender and not clean) then don't stay here.

On the positive side, we arrived at 3:30, unhooked and were able to spend the rest of the afternoon at the caverns.

No wifi, although online listing indicated they had it. Verizon signal was good enough to get by.