Campervan Sites Near Animas, New Mexico: Best Animas Campervan Sites 2025

Roll into Animas with your campervan and you’ll find over 2,500 campsites made for van life. Expect wide-open desert, mountain horizons, and plenty of space to park up. Average sites run about $11 a night, with some as low as $10. Top picks like Karla's Hummingbird Guest Ranch (217 reviews), The Rocking T (98 reviews), and LeRoy & Paula's Alpacas (81 reviews) get high marks from travelers. You’ll find sites with showers, campfire rings, and easy trash disposal. Off-roading is huge here—bring your OHV or just watch the action. Swimming holes and whitewater paddling spots break up the desert heat. Animas is made for those who want to chase dust trails, soak in quiet nights, and wake up to horizon-wide sunrises.

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Top-rated campgrounds

Roll into Animas with your campervan and you’ll find over 2,500 campsites made for van life. Expect wide-open desert, mountain horizons, and plenty of space to park up. Average sites run about $11 a night, with some as low as $10. Top picks like Karla's Hummingbird Guest Ranch (217 reviews), The Rocking T (98 reviews), and LeRoy & Paula's Alpacas (81 reviews) get high marks from travelers. You’ll find sites with showers, campfire rings, and easy trash disposal. Off-roading is huge here—bring your OHV or just watch the action. Swimming holes and whitewater paddling spots break up the desert heat. Animas is made for those who want to chase dust trails, soak in quiet nights, and wake up to horizon-wide sunrises.

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Top-rated campgrounds

1. Smugglers' Roost

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0.5mi from Animas · 10 sites · RVs · Animas, NM

Smugglers' Roost is located in Animas, NM, situated at the site of the infamous Clanton Gang’s hideout along Smuggler’s Trail. The community is positioned along the original Butterfield Overland Stagecoach Winter Route; a short two hour drive from Las Cruces , New Mexico or just 2.5-hours from either El Paso, Texas or Tucson, Arizona. We are located in the Middle of Everywhere, surrounded by wealth of wide-ranging activities and natural amenities which include extraordinary, yet uncrowded state and national recreation areas, caves, mines, ghost towns, museums, historic locations, native sites, observatories, local wineries and micro-breweries. Learn more about this land: Bring your RV and join us at Smugglers' Roost for our warm sunny days and starlit nights! We are a pioneering community which serves as a hub for exploration, creativity, trade and most of all... the passionate celebration of life! We offer 228 Full Hook-up RV Sites with 50-amp electric, water, commercial septic and free high-speed Wi-Fi. Pull-throughs are available and there's plenty of room to spread out! Smugglers' Roost is located in Animas, NM, situated at the site of the infamous Clanton Gang’s hideout along Smuggler’s Trail. The community is positioned along the original Butterfield Overland Stagecoach Winter Route; a short two hour drive from Las Cruces , New Mexico or just 2.5-hours from either El Paso, Texas or Tucson, Arizona. We are located in the Middle of Everywhere, surrounded by a treasure trove of wide-ranging activities and natural amenities which include extraordinary, yet uncrowded state and national recreation areas, caves, mines, ghost towns, museums, historic locations, native sites, observatories, local wineries and micro-breweries. BIRD WITH US! We offer an onsite birding station and three additional affiliated and nationally acclaimed birding sites, including one at the mouth of the famed Cave Creek Canyon in Portal, AZ only a short drive away. EXPLORE THE UNIVERSE! Our dead-dark night skies are nothing short of awe-inspiring, so come explore with our onsite star guides with telescopes!

2. Moksha Sanctuary

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44mi from Animas · 4 sites · Tents, RVs · Sunizona, AZ

Hello, we have acreage that we are allowing travelers to stay on. We are 15 miles from Chiricahua National Monument, located along the ‘Wilcox Loop’. Along the loop is also Cochise Stronghold and many wineries! If you travel south from here, we are 45 minutes from my favorite town Bisbee. Stars galore! Attention: as the area can be dry we do not allow fire pits, however a stove/grill for cooking is expectable. Thank you

3. Light Homestead

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45mi from Animas · 1 site · Tent, RV · Pearce, AZ

Located 10 miles west of the Chiricahua Mountains and Wilderness and nine miles from a well stocked country store, enjoy quiet camping in a shady orchard. With toilet, shower, laundry and other amenities, this is a beautiful place to access high country adventures, explore old west ghost towns, hand out and sing campfire songs, and/or share in healthy homestead produce!

4. Coronado National Forest

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479 sites · Sonoita, Arizona

If you think southern Arizona is nothing but parched desert, think again.

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Potable water

Toilets

5. Chiricahua National Monument

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26 sites · Sunizona, Arizona

An offbeat wonderland of hoodoos and balanced rocks in a seldom-visited corner of Arizona.

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Toilets

Public campgrounds near Animas

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Idlewilde Campground

21mi from Animas · 9 sites · Tents, RVs · in Coronado National Forest

On the road from Portal, a half mile from the campground.

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Stewart Campground

22mi from Animas · 12 sites · Tents, RVs · in Coronado National Forest

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Sunny Flat Campground

22mi from Animas · 13 sites · Tents, RVs · in Coronado National Forest

Rustler Park Campground

28mi from Animas · 22 sites · Tents, RVs · in Coronado National Forest

Rucker Forest Camp

31mi from Animas · 26 sites · Tents, RVs · in Coronado National Forest

Sycamore Campground

31mi from Animas · 7 sites · Tents, RVs · in Coronado National Forest

Camp Rucker Group Campground

32mi from Animas · 1 site · Tent, RV · in Coronado National Forest

Cypress Park Campground

32mi from Animas · 14 sites · Tents, RVs · in Coronado National Forest

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Bonita Canyon Campground

32mi from Animas · 26 sites · Tents, RVs · in Chiricahua National Monument

Stories from the community

Katie

July 2025

16 ft car

2 nights at Smugglers' Roost

I loved car camping on smugglers roost! They had a really nice bathroom and showers and gave clear instructions on arriving! The hosts were very communicative!

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Michael

March 2025

Tent

With pets

Weekend Trip to Moksha Sanctuary

Nice location . Kinda small to maneuver a trailer around in . Spots are kinda close together. Was quiet and a nice stay

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Katjiana

March 2025

Tent

Weekend Trip to Moksha Sanctuary

Directions to find were perfect! Quiet camp site and it was easy to steak out tent. 15 minutes out of the Chiricahua National Monument.

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Tim

March 2025

25 ft Class C

1 night at Moksha Sanctuary

Easy to find and very close to the mountains and monument. Had a picturesque view of a sunrise over the snow-capped mountains from the RV!!

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Doug

March 2025

30 ft Class A

Weekend Trip to Moksha Sanctuary

Very quiet , ultra clear night sky, beautiful mountains nearby, level site

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Lorraine

March 2025

36 ft fifth wheel

4 nights at Moksha Sanctuary

This spot is beautiful & quiet. It's close to Chiricahua National Monument & Cochise Stronghold. If your rig is bigger than a camper van, site #1 will be easiest for you to get into.

Susie

March 2025

25 ft travel trailer

With pets

5 nights at Smugglers' Roost

It just depends on what your needs are. There's are community of people here and it's good for that. We found it far too windy and ended up leaving to head to picture rocks instead.

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Christina

February 2025

25 ft Class C

Weekend Trip to Moksha Sanctuary

We loved our camping experience under the stars! My niece had a wonderful time using her telescope. The directions were easy to follow and the location is very quiet.

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Dean

February 2025

40 ft Class C

Weekend Trip to Moksha Sanctuary

We loved staying here. Great location close to Chiricahua Mountains. My only feedback would be that the site access is small for maneuvering big rigs. Site 1 is the bigger and easiest to park a large rig like ours (40’ bus conversions) followed by site 2, however I used half os site one to get backed into site 2. Sites 3 & 4 are further off the road and would have been quite difficult for us to navigate to due to the width of the access road.

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Aurora

January 2025

Tent

6 nights at Light Homestead

Damon was a kind and caring camp host. His setup is rustic so don't expect a glamping experience but for those looking for an interesting place to camp away from the world it's well worth it. There are several different small hand built buildings on the property, one of which has a shared kitchen and bathroom, it's rough but is good enough for cooking and showers. The property also has several trees and shrubs planted by Damon and paths that one can take walks on. Oh, and there's also goats to check out! I also need to mention that Damon is a uniquely talented musical soul so if you're into playing or composing he might give you a mini tour of of his musical creations - they're very interesting- and show you his setup where he works on his music and offer to play some music together - my husband was surprised to find a musical mind to connect with in the middle of nowhere. He's also very knowledgeable of the surrounding area and was more than happy to share his tips with my husband and I on the best spots to visit and scenic drives to take. Damon made our camp stay very interesting.

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Lisa

January 2025

60 ft travel trailer

Group trip

Weekend Trip to Moksha Sanctuary

This place was very convenient for visiting Chiricahua. It was quiet and the stars were beautiful in the dark sky.

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jane

January 2025