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RV Parks in Santa Fe

Yahoo Message Number: 73218
We will be heading for Santa Fe in about a week. Any suggestions on nicer RV Parks to possibly stay at? Thanks in advance.

R. D. Vanderslice
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Yahoo Message Number: 73221
Hi R. D.

We are in Santa Fe at the present time. And the only one I could recommend is the Santa Fe Skys RV Park, big rig friendly. Address: 14 Browncastle Ranch 87508 phone 505 473-5946. Lots of big rigs here today.

Jack Allure40 30076

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Yahoo Message Number: 73223
We have stayed at Santa Fe Sky's RV Park in the past and and found it very convenient.

Jock Vargo
2005 Inspire
51428

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Yahoo Message Number: 73236
http://www.trailerranch.com/
We stayed here for three days two years ago in our little Bounder. It was clean and well maintained, and central to Santa Fe for us. We enjoyed our stay. It does have a permanent park on the back, but sepearted from the RV section. Some road noise, but not bad. Friendly staff. We had suspension problems from an encounter with a dip hit too fast, and staff members recommended a place I would have normally just driven by without stopping. Glad they did, as they got us in, fixed, and back to our park within three hours - reasonable cost!
Older park, not one of the newer kinds with all of the newer items - so check RV Parks Review, and compare this to others - to see what fits what you are looking for...

Best of luck, have fun, be safe,
Smitty

04 Allure 31017
04 Allure Sold to a nice new owner! Now enjoying a 07 Magna Rembrandt 45' ISX600 #6775
"We're ONDROAD for THEJRNY!" (Toad and Coach license plates, say Hi if you see us!)

RV Parks in Santa Fe

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Yahoo Message Number: 73244
Thanks Jack, Jock, and Smitty for your input on places to stay in Santa Fe. It's so cool here in Durango, we may stay here for a while. It's 110 back home in Texas.

R. D. Vanderslice
SOB

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Yahoo Message Number: 73255
Santa Fe Skies RV park is by far the best of the parks in and around Santa Fe.

Space #25 is far and away the best site, but if you have a long RV it will not work. We are 33', and we always head into this space (rather than backing in, as designed) so as to be looking away from the park and towards Santa Fe.

The so-called "big rig" sites are the usual parallel, fewer than 30' wide, stuffed with your neighbors, arrangement. Still, given the parks on Cerrillos Road, even this is to be desired. There is one park east of Santa Fe on the Interstate, maybe seven miles past Cerrillos Road, which is set in amongst trees, but there is a LOT of dirt and dust there.
Whatever you do, don't miss the art galleries on Canyon Road, breakfast at Café Pasquals (downtown), and Tortilla Flats (in the 2500 or so block of Cerrillos Road) for great, casual Mexican dining with a Santa Fe twist. Museum Hill is a must see, with its four musea, and dinner at La Fonda is always a pleasant experience. In Tesuque, north of town a few miles, there is a wonderful sculpture garden and, if you work it out correctly, you can actually view the pouring of the metal into the sculpture molds, truly an inspirational experience (you have to be there to know why).

If you care for her work, there is a Georgia O'Keefe Museum. The Institute of American Indian Art (near La Fonda) has interesting, if sometimes amateurish, exhibits. It has a nice gift shop. In general, items in the gift shops at La Fonda seem to me quite overpriced, and the Huichol art shop does not have traditional Huichol work.
During this part of the year, the internationally acclaimed Santa Fe Opera is in full tilt. The "back road" to Taos (a worthy destination in its own right) will take you through spiritual places such as Chimayo.
You could spend a month in Santa Fe and not see all the wonders that this place has to offer. The pottery collection (for sale) in downtown at the store on the corner of West San Francisco and either Don Gaspar or Galisteo or Sandoval has one of the most amazing collections of Pueblo and Mata Ortiz pottery that you will ever hope to see. And don't forget to bargain with the "first nation" merchants selling at the Governor's Palace.

From Santa Fe Skies, don't use Cerrillos Road to get into town, but rather use the Interstate (I-25) to St. Francis Drive and go into town that way. It is much faster, and even better looking.

As you might be able to tell, we love Santa Fe. We even considered retiring there, but the altitude and subsequent winter weather disabused us of those ideas.

Ken Harrison

2004 Allure #31035

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Yahoo Message Number: 73256
Also if your an Elk you can Boondock at the lodge, Nice views them move over to full hookups at other parks near by, Ken 99 Allure 30356

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Yahoo Message Number: 73292
Ken. Wow! What great info. Thanks so much for taking the time to highlight so many of the great places in Sante Fe. We kind of changed our schedule and are now in Pegosa Springs, Colorado and will probably be here for a week before heading for Sante Fe. This cuts into my time in Sante Fe, so we won't get to do as much touring as we had hoped, but will definitely use your info. I had much rather get tourist info from people who have been there, rather than the travel magazines and s. Thanks again.

R. D. Vanderslice
SOB