park overnight Gallup to grants area

anitajeff wrote:
We have stayed at http://www.usarvpark.com/USA RV Park overnight.

Stayed 3 nights. Very nice park. Truck had bad hydraulic clutch master cylinder. ATF got mixed with DOT 3 brake fluid in system. Had to wait one day for new slave cylinder.

Not sure who put in ATF. I am super careful dealing with brakes but make have topped power steering and then topped off clutch with mind in neutral. $450 lesson.

Even if you just want to park for the night, I would check out Red Rock State Park. It is wonderful

Gallup Walmart - easy to get into and plenty of parking room. Grants Walmart - two tight turns and parking lot is a dead end. Have to go out the same way.

Petro truck stop in Grants - easy access

Pilot/Flying J truck stop about 10 miles east of Gallup - easy access plenty of room.

Not to be missed if you have the time is the mining museum in downtown Grants. A great replica of key parts of a uranium mine in the basement and very reasonable price.

Petro truck stop right off 40 in Grants. ST

anitajeff wrote:
We have stayed at http://www.usarvpark.com/USA RV Park overnight.

X2 or 28 miles east of Grants Dancing Eagle full hookups $10.00

It sounds like the OP wants a free overnight place, not a RV park/campground. If so, Wal Mart is your best bet.

You didn't say when this site is needed. Here's one I've liked, but it may be closed for winter now. It's a bit off the highway, but worth it.

Quaking Aspen camp, Cibola NF

there is a Walmart at each end of your journey.
Exit 20 and exit 85.

Just east of Gallup is Red Rock State Park---$14.00 per night
Good Sam uses this park for state campouts.

El Moro National Monument is a nice camp spot. No entrance or camping fees. Limit is 27 feet. Check with them on details but interesting little national monument with interesting history. Should be real quiet this time of year. Open year round, we stayed on New Years a few year back as we headed through.