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Sunset Reef Campground
Free camping
Campground · Bureau of Land Management Fees: No fees. Stay limit: 5 nights maximum. Sunset Reef Campground is a reclaimed well pad with 11 developed campsites; five RV spaces and six tent sites. Each site has a shaded picnic table, fire pit and grill for your camping convenience with a vault toilet on site. Visitors can dry camp at this campground for a maximum of five nights for free. If on the hunt for a great place to camp while exploring the two national parks in the area, this is the place to stay! Carlsbad Caverns is a 25-minute drive (14 miles) to the north and Guadalupe Mountains National Park is a 35-minute drive (30 miles) to the southwest. Getting there: From Carlsbad, New Mexico head south on highway 62/180, after approximately 25 miles turn right at the large red Washington Ranch sign (between mile marker 10 and 11) onto Washington Ranch Road, be prepared to take the first right soon after accessing Washington Ranch Road, cross a cattle guard and continue on a dirt road for 0.7 miles. Phone: 575-234-5972 Official page: https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/10278190 Source: Recreation.gov, Bureau of Land Management. Fees and seasons change; check the official page before you go.
Official information from the managing agency. Fees, seasons and closures change; check before you go.
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