Gallo Campground

Good facilities, washroom & camping sites. Need regulation/enforcement of bright lights in campground in the evening. If Chaco is rated as a dark sky location then it needs to be dark in the campsite as we were not allowed to leave the campsite after 9pm. Or there should be somewhere we can actual go to at night to observe the skies without campground interference. Was disappointed to not be able to do astrophotography, especially after suffering the terrible roads into Chaco.

Chaco is superb. Campsite was clean and comfortable. Other campers were courteous. Stars were stunning without the moon!

Very clean, quiet, campground. Water is available and we had no problems parking our 22 foot camper van.

I enjoyed my stay in the campground. This is an amazing place! I enjoyed the Astrofest. Both speakers were excellent and the Albuquerque astronomy group sharing their telescopes made the week.

It was a busy weekend (equinox) and everything worked smoothly, good job

Nice campground with great stars. I do wish there were shade structures, it gets really hot in the canyon. Bathrooms, tent pad, fire pit and picnic table were all good. Has water available. Amazing stars!

This campsite is right across from the bathroom. It makes it more convenient for late night excursions and dish washing. The only downside is you get the noise of people going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. This site is far enough away from the group site that you don’t have as much commotion from the group site. I stayed four nights. The first three nights the group sites were occupied by adult groups that were barely noticeable. The last night a massive crowd of screaming middle schoolers took over the group sites. Luckily it was my last night. There are two bathrooms in the campground, the closest one to me always had a line. Luckily the kids never went to the other bathroom.

Chaco is and has always been a wonderful experience for me since visiting the site 20 years ago.
It is no wonder the ancient ones were such star gazers, one only need spend the night under the stars there to experience the same sights they did.
If you don't experience some sort of spiritual feeling in Chaco, you don't need to be there.

While searching for a reservation a month in advance, I was met with difficulty. Almost every site was reserved. For a month. I had to resort to visiting th site daily for 30+ da nys to finally locate one that popped out of nowhere.
My need was only for TWO nights. A Tuesday and Wednesday.
Upon arriving on the Tuesday I had reserved; the campsite was FAR from being booked.
BOTH nights and days there was NO host on duty.
Folks were free to make noise, climb on the fallen rock clearly marked Dangerous, and NO host to check on reservations. I could have been free to camp where I sole desired.
A clamity!

So convenient for staying & seeing Chaco Canyon. Nice flat site, picnic tables & fire rings