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Campground Review: Taos Valley RV Park

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Unlike the other park in Taos, the Taos Valley RV Park is a lush field of desert shrubs. It is a gorgeous park where every spot is surrounded by thick growth and it feels about as close to a state park campground as any privately owned park we’ve stayed in to date.

Pictures of the park can be found here, along with plenty of other photos of Taos, NM.

While more expensive than the park down the road, this park is half a mile closer and vastly more pleasing to the eye. For your money, you also get access to their laundromat and they serve up free coffee and cookies throughout the day in the office.

Aside from RV spots, they’ve also got these beautiful little wooden tents, for lack of a better description, which are basically triangular structures housing a picnic table that you can tarp off and sleep in if you’re not traveling in an RV yourself.

The staff is plenty friendly enough and there are more restaurants closer to this park than the other, one of my favorite being the Five Star Burger where we experienced salmon sandwiches while a father/son duo played 60′s folk music, fingerpicking and singing complicated songs effortlessly while simultaneously watching horse races on the TVs behind the bar.

You can’t go wrong with the Taos Valley RV Park if you’re staying in Taos, New Mexico. It’s the closest park to the downtown plaza area and the family center, which we never got a chance to visit but is a stop along the bus route (an excellent bus service running every 30 – 60 minutes during the day) which apparently features a pool, a skating rink (ice in the winter, roller in the summer), and an arcade.

The downtown and plaza area of Taos are really quite cool, with plenty of restaurants and bars, and an overabundance of places to buy pricey art, your typical tourist town that the Southwest abounds in, but it’s done about as well as they come.

Olivia in particular really loved Taos, and felt that it had a particularly special vibe. While we were in town there was, in one weekend, a biker rally celebrating some anniversary of Easy Rider (dubbed the “Summer of Love”), a carnival, and an art festival. Not too shabby for a random arrival.