Painted Rock Petroglyph Campground

Beautiful location! Many choices of large campsites, well-spaced with clean pit-toilets. Super quiet & peaceful! Very enjoyable drive on paved roads from the interstate. Petroglyph site is amazing & well-done with excellent educational signage. Group picnic areas thoughtfully designed. Medicine Wheel & metal art adds beauty & authenticity to this BLM developed campground.

Beautiful location! Many choices of large campsites, well-spaced with clean pit-toilets. Super quiet & peaceful! Very enjoyable drive on paved roads from the interstate. Petroglyph site is amazing & well-done with excellent educational signage. Group picnic areas thoughtfully designed. Medicine Wheel & metal art adds beauty & authenticity to this BLM developed campground.

Fantastic area to camp. Very peaceful and interesting site.

Fantastic area to camp. Very peaceful and interesting site.

Out of the way basic campground that is dry camping only with pit toilets. Very private as it is 10 miles from the highway into the campground, and of course 10 miles back the way you came to leave. Desert camping, so expect that vegetation is mostly low scrub stuff. Can ride bikes out of the campground on primitive roads that are quite rocky in places, but do go for miles and miles. Some hills here and there, but the primitive roads are mostly flat. Spots spaced pretty far apart, so no trouble with finding a private spot that suits you away from other campers. Petroglyphs nearby are easy to walk to and explore. Hosts came by and were very friendly.

Out of the way basic campground that is dry camping only with pit toilets. Very private as it is 10 miles from the highway into the campground, and of course 10 miles back the way you came to leave. Desert camping, so expect that vegetation is mostly low scrub stuff. Can ride bikes out of the campground on primitive roads that are quite rocky in places, but do go for miles and miles. Some hills here and there, but the primitive roads are mostly flat. Spots spaced pretty far apart, so no trouble with finding a private spot that suits you away from other campers. Petroglyphs nearby are easy to walk to and explore. Hosts came by and were very friendly.

Overall this was a very nice place to spend our weekend just relaxing. The campground itself was great and the vault toilets were clean and well maintained , since we use a pop up camper that was a bonus option so we didn’t have to use the bathroom in our camper if we didn’t absolutely need to. Roads are easy to drive on . The only negatives about the site is (1) there is farm land all around and semis go up and down the main road a lot. (2) there also seems to be a crop dusting plane that flys over the fields so you hear that often. (3) I had to look on google earth to try and figure out where the light pollution was coming from and it seems it may be from the solar farms nearby. It isn’t terrible but if you want to skywatch then that will affect your plans. Other than those things I was satisfied with my stay and will return again 😊

Overall this was a very nice place to spend our weekend just relaxing. The campground itself was great and the vault toilets were clean and well maintained , since we use a pop up camper that was a bonus option so we didn’t have to use the bathroom in our camper if we didn’t absolutely need to. Roads are easy to drive on . The only negatives about the site is (1) there is farm land all around and semis go up and down the main road a lot. (2) there also seems to be a crop dusting plane that flys over the fields so you hear that often. (3) I had to look on google earth to try and figure out where the light pollution was coming from and it seems it may be from the solar farms nearby. It isn’t terrible but if you want to skywatch then that will affect your plans. Other than those things I was satisfied with my stay and will return again 😊

We enjoyed the petroglyph site, the quiet clean campground, the dark sky's, the friendly helpful hosts. I enjoyed riding my bike out the dirt Rd to the south. Not much else to do here maybe explore with a OHV if you had one. We stayed two nights and enjoyed relaxing in the warm weather. I can't say I would return though.

We found a great site to camp in and then tried to check in and pay for the site. After 30 minutes of trying to figure out the check in process, we finally just gave up and walked over to find the camp host. The camp host was wonderful and showed us the steps to get through this online system so we could pay for our site.
Please add a pay box so that we can just pay by check or cash.