The Ranch, Lakewood, NM

After San Angelo, we figured we could make it to The Ranch in Lakewood, NM.  We picked The Ranch because we'd heard about it from some of our Montana Owners Club (MOC) friends.  It's an Escapee RV Club, which as members we can stay at cheap.  You can't make reservations at an SKP park like The Ranch, but you are guaranteed a place to park, even if you have to boondock, i.e. no hook-ups.  All of the site are owned by a lease holder, but when they are gone RVing, their site can be used by folks like us.

The folks here are very nice and helpful. A lot of them are already gone for the summer season or are leaving soon.  A few stay through the summer, but basically, it's a place to come to get out of the cold during the winter up north.  The Ranch is located 15 miles from the nearest town, Artesia, NM.  So it's remote.  It's 2 miles off of US285 so you can't hear any noise, and there are very few lights to distract the view of the night sky.  We decided to stay a week or so to recover and see a few sites in Roswell and Carlsbad, both a 30-60 minute drive.  Also maybe we'll be lucky and Martha will be out of her walking boot she's been in for 5 weeks so far.

I've included a few photos looking outside the park both from the east and west view.  As you can see we are in the high desert in the middle of a cattle ranch.  I haven't see cows yet, but have seen roadrunners and a fox.