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Gallo Campground
Drive-up · National Park Service · NM · 36.03612, -107.89181
Inside a national park unit
Gallo Campground sits inside Chaco Culture National Historical Park — a national historical park run by the National Park Service.
Park rules apply, and they are stricter than dispersed camping: inside a National Park Service unit you camp in a designated campground or on a backcountry permit, not wherever you find a flat spot. Check the park before you go: nps.gov/chcu ↗
Placed by point-in-polygon against the National Park Service’s own boundary layer (NPS Land Resources Division, 442 units, fetched 18 Sep 2026; this unit’s polygon edited 2017-12-11). Nothing about the price or the legal status on this page was changed by it.
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Ask about this camp →National Park Service lists this site. Someone from the agency inventoried it, so it is a real camp — not a spot we guessed at. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Gallo Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,220 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Gallo CampgroundNIFC · AirNow
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Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Gallo Campground · National Park Service · NM
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- DDump0 mi
- WWater1 mi
- GGrocery5 mi
- FFuel18 mi
- @Mail18 mi
- LLaundry20 mi
- +Urgent care25 mi
- HHardware47 mi
- RxPharmacy47 mi
- MMechanic47 mi
- EVEV fast charger49 mi
- ShShower52 mi
- OOutfitter52 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 5 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 49-mi run (and back).
Not within 60 mi: Propane. Plan those before you head up.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Gallo Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
National Park Service
Elevation
6,220 ft
Ground slope
1.4% · flat
State
NM
Coordinates
36.03612, -107.89181
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Gallo Campground · National Park Service · NM (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureGallo Wash · ~0.1 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Nearest townNageezi · ~16.5 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterWater · ~1.1 mi
- FuelSinclair · ~17.7 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~0.1 mi
- GroceriesChaco Trading Post (historic) · ~5.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicDZ Clinic · ~24.9 mi
EV charging — from Gallo Campground · National Park Service · NM — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger48.9 mi straight-line SW — Flying J 305, Jamestown, NM · eVgo Network · CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-15 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 1 within 50 · 65 within 100 · 146 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)52.4 mi — Farmington, NM - Tesla Supercharger, Farmington
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO51.7 mi — Cuban Cafe, Cuba
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)50.9 mi — FEUS BERG PARK, Farmington, NM · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 389044 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Gallo Campground · National Park Service · NM — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomGC East Loop B RV Restroom · at this camp · NPS
- RestroomGC West Tent Loop C Restrooms · at this camp · NPS
- RestroomVIP Campground Restroom · ~0.8 mi SW · NPS
- RestroomVC Visitor Center Restrooms · ~1.1 mi W · NPS
Coming out here — Gallo Campground · National Park Service · NM
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Gallo Wash as an intermittent stream, ~0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as intermittent — expect it dry for part of the year. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 1.4% — flat. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (10 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on it.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
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Who holds the land at Gallo Campground
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Chaco Culture National Historical Park, manager on record: National Park Service (federal). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Gallo Campground
Stay limit
14 nights (limited to 30 days in a calendar year, and 14 consecutive days at a time)
Source
public land records
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
How it was placed
Chaco Culture National Historical Park -- the only campground in the park, about a mile east of the visitor center, and the base for anyone wanting the night sky over Chaco. FEE: NPS lists "$20.00 per night", with Senior/Access pass holders at "$10.00 per site, per night". SIZE: "26 individual sites and 2 group sites". RESERVATIONS: the park says "We recommend making a reservation on www.recreation.gov", adding that "All unreserved campsites will become available on a first-come, first-served basis". FACILITIES: "The campground has water and restrooms with flush toilets, but no showers or hook-ups". STAY LIMIT: "Camping is limited to 30 days in a calendar year, and 14 consecutive days at a time". SEASON: "Open all year. Closed 6 nights: the night before Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving, December 24th, December 25th, December 31st and January 1st". ACCESS CAVEAT: Chaco is reached by long unpaved county roads that can be impassable when wet -- check conditions with the park before committing a low-clearance vehicle. NOTE: an older park news page (nps.gov/chcu/learn/news/camping-limits.htm) records a period when the park "suspended all group camping" and "reduced the number of regular camp sites from 49 to 35"; the figures above are from the current camping page and supersede it. Coordinate is the NPS Public POIs national dataset pin (mapservices.nps.gov, read 2026-08-17). SOURCE: https://www.nps.gov/chcu/planyourvisit/camping.htm | auto:agency-trust 2026-08-18: state agency GIS record with a source URL and coordinates, confidence not low. Fee value is the agency's own, not field-checked. Not field-verified -- confirm access, road conditions and fire rules before you go.
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Gallo Campground
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Seasonal & winter access
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Gallo Campground
The town run →Fire rules & restrictions →Off-grid communication →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →