Volunteer Park Travel Campsite

As others have said "Club house" closed due to COVID, but the club house is just a meeting room. The Showers and bathrooms on the side are open. Sites are all drive through, with a cement covered patio and cement picnic table. We arrived a few hours before "The Storm" hit. We had a foot of snow and wind in the morning. Looked like a Wyoming blizzard. The cold and snow only lasted a couple of days and then it got nice. We were able to take the "back gate" south into El Paso, TX, and we took many drives to Las Cruses, NM, and White Sands National Monument. We spent one week in full hookups and one week in electric only over flow. Just note that overflow is basically parking along a street with a power pedestal. The price is right. $10 for full hookups and $5 for electric only. HOWEVER note the prices are going to go up to $15 for Full and $10 for Electric only. The only negative thing I have to say is about 75% of the spaces are taken up by contractors or other folks that are stationed at the post. While I don't mind that, I do believe that MWR is missing their objective. They are acting more like base housing and less like Morale Welfare and Recreation! To that point, there is a lot of land around the area, and I would recommend they expand their number of spots.

KBUG (Know Before You Go). Max Stickers/Thorns - Consider their paws. Bold Coyotes. UL gas and supplies available. Drop & Hops (folks that store RVs in full hookup sites). There are only 8 sights and there is a great open parking lot adjacent to the park where rigs could be left unattended. Throughout our visit half the sights had RVs present with personnel unaccounted for. We wished to stay but we were forced out due to lack of availability. This is unacceptable. HC

Had forgotten that sites aren’t level but with an extra block under rear jacks was able to level out. Pull through sites plenty long with a concrete pad beside. Thinking that large coverings were added over the table and concrete pad since our last stay. This is a quiet place with minimal activity on the base, over weekend or holiday. Overall we like this one, good place to ride bikes around and not worry about traffic.

Very small family camp but, perfectly located to take in White Sands National Park. The staff, Todd, couldn't have been more accomodating and friendly. Great playground and wide-open spaces for the kids as well. You cannot beat the value for the money and the views are staggering.

Still looks like the photos on this website. "Club house" closed due to COVID, so we really only used the site itself. Sites are plenty long but VERY narrow due to their positioning of utility stand as well as the in-ground light on a post. We had to leave the kitchen slide in during our stay because of the light pole. Combine that with the slope of the site...took us quite some time to get level and in position. Our first night was extremely windy gusting greater than 60 mph. Put the big slide in to reduce buffeting and got very little sleep. But hey, the price is VERY right! And we enjoyed the White Sands Nat Park the next day.

Beautiful location and a staff that went out of their way to find us a site. A couple of important notes, though. 1. This is the first installation we have visited that requires RV's to use the truck lane at the gates. The sign says delivery trucks use right lane, but they mean anything larger than a car. They told us a large vehicle would not fit through the serpentine barriers. 2. The RV park office has moved to building 3288? - the old Frontier Club. You can see it almost straight ahead when you pull into a site (the RV storage lot is next to it), but it is about a 1/2 mile hike. There's a closer building surrounded with construction fencing that may have been the office at one time. Didn't see any restrooms or showers, but I didn't really look. 3. The sites are nice, but narrow with posts on each side that required some jockeying to fit the slides around them. Plenty long even with the toad hooked up. 4. The VZN internet service was good enough to stream TV the evening we arrived, but went away the next morning. Probably only one cell tower in the whole county. Overall, this is a very nice fam camp with some spectacular views and lots of quietness. We'll be back after the museum re-opens.

A first!!!!!!!!!!!! MWR REDUCED the fee for staying here to $10 a night! It had been $10 however it went up to $15 for about a yr or so, but they've lowered it back to $10! WSMR as well as Ft. Bliss have dropped the DOD decal requirement, too. Since I don't get to many USN or MC bases I don't know if they still require the DOD sticker.........I'd be interested on feed back as to the status of USN &/or MC bases & their DOD decal status. There does NOT seem to be any homesteaders here even though there is a LOT of new construction on the base. If you approach the base from from El Paso on the "back" road through Ft. Bliss it has almost been completely reconstructed & the speed limit has increased to 65 mph. A real short cut! Played the little 9 hole golf course & it has really greened up for February. Wind this time of year sucks, but we don't have Spring in NM, it's WIND season!

What a beautiful spot. Sites were level and staggered so every site has a view. The shelter over the picnic table was appreciated so we did not have to put out our awning and worry if the wind would kick up. FHU for $10 can’t be beat. Even overflow has electric and water. We called ahead and were lucky enough to get a FHU site when we arrived. PX and commissary close early! Not a lot of dining options on base. Great paved walking paths near the campground, but stay on the paved paths the sticker burrs are nasty. If traveling to El Paso use route 213 south it’s so much easier. When arriving just take Headquarters St to Martin Luther King to the park no need to zigzag thru base.

Stayed for 10 nights. The folks at outdoor recreation were friendly and helpful both when we called for a site and after arrival. If you like to hike or mountain bike this is the place for you. Sites are as previously described and we enjoyed the cover.

Not much more to add from the previous reviews. Nice, quiet location for a great price. We made reservations, but the RV Park was only 50% occupied for this week. However, they will be full next week for the Battan March annual event. This time of the year, the winds came up VERY strong, but we had some very nice days as well. I prefer this campground over the Holloman AFB FamCamp. The missile museum is a MUST see. We greatly enjoyed our relaxing short time here.

Very beautiful place, only problem is there are only 8 FHs and there are full timers and unregisteredunpaying guests. Management never checks what is going on, bathrooms are abused and showers are broken in the male side. If these issues were corrected I would give 4 stars across the board.

This facility is very nice and quiet. All in all a great location as long as you know what you are getting, distance from Las Cruces and Alamogordo. The check in process has a lot to be desired. It would have been nice to get a map of the installation, told where the dumpsters and recycle bins were located. The folks at Outdoor Rec were nice but just not very helpful. When asked about a map, I was told to go to the gift shop, they might have one. Also my reservation wasn't on the "board" but was still on someone's desk. Good thing I was the only person to show up on Sunday. Since I've been here and know the ropes I would go back. Maybe they could take some lessons from Agave Gulch on how to check someone into the park.

A.B. left this review using the Directory software: - We were on site #1. Nice pull thru next to the activity center. Enjoyed our short stay. Excellent museum plus visited the Biosphere. Very windy in this area but the price was right. Just wish they had diesel fuel on board so plan your trip accordingly! Bx&Comm.well stocked

Stayed one night, beautiful setting (the view of the mountains were unbeatable). Full hookups were available and easy to use. Each site had a covered picnic table and outstanding feature in a hot climate. The check-in location is a good walk from the rv sites only drawback.The directions are a little off, the is no sign on 70 indicating SR213.

What a great bargain. This is our 2nd visit this year. It is a small park, but all 8 FHU spots are pull thru. They are a bit narrow, so it took a minute to make sure slides and stairs were in the right spot and we did have to add wood blocks to our rear jacks to level properly. The park is close to the commissary and small BX. Our only disappointment is that they don’t have diesel at the base base station. White Sands National Park is worth the trip too!