Datil Well Campground

This is very nice BLM campground a few miles outside of the small town of Datil. It has a campground host, pit toilets, water from hand pumps and five dollar fee. The sites are well wooded with piñon and juniper, and spacious. On our visit, there were never more than five of the twenty-two spaces occupied. We used it as our base to explore the Datil, Crosby and Sawtooth Mountains of the Cibola National Forest and the BLM's Horse Mountain Wilderness Study Area. An easy three mile loop trail that starts in the campground took us to several nice viewpoints of the San Agustin Plains and the Crosby Mountains.We discovered many potential dispersed sites nearby, but since our camper is very small (no bathroom, limited water storage), we couldn't really beat this place for convenience.