Gallo Campground

We truly enjoyed our stay at Gallo. It is close to the ruins and visitor center where everyone was polite and helpful.

Mostly by ourselves, for the most part, other than the drive in it’s a great campground

Great location and campsites, and our host Jack (Teddy Bear Loop) was informative, and made us feel right at home.

There is a 20 mile dirt road, with severe washboarding. Then a gully you have to drive through with water running through it road is impassable and they will not refund the money you paid for your reservation.

Nice heated bathrooms. Appreciated the volunteer hosts at the visitor center who provided a lot of valuable information on the park.

Beautiful setting for a campground! Right at the heart of Chaco Canyon. Clean and warm bathrooms. Nice picnic tables with site. Great experience.

Rangers here are the best...thanks!! Friendly and informative. Chaco is amazing. Everyone should go in August, so that the rest of us can have it to ourselves in the winter!

Amazing! So snowy, but so beautiful! Slept in the car… pretty chilly temps, but worth it.

While the campground is very scenic, there is a serious issue with status updates on the recreation.gov website. There is no mention of the water being turned off at the campsite. I arrived to find no bathrooms or drinking water. The sign on the bathroom door had been hanging there for weeks and after talking to the Chaco Canyon park rangers, this is a normal occurrence in the winter months there. I brought 14 gallons of water (this is a remote desert area after all), but there was literally no place to go to the bathroom. If I had been warned in advance, I could have brought a privacy shelter and a shovel to bury human waste. But imagine the amount of human waste buried in the campsite if this is an annual occurrence. It's fine for RV people with their own toilets and large water tanks, but a serious issues for tent campers. Recreation.gov needs to update this campsite listing to provide explicit, detailed information about this situation including dates. I ended up not staying in the campground overnight. Of course there was no way to get a refund, and no cell service out there. The rangers at Chaco Canyon can't do anything about it either, they are not affliated with recreation.gov or the campground.

the campground was clean and somewhat spacious. Bathrooms are heated and the is water there.There are some petroglyphs by the fire ring. :-). The roads can be a problem. I came in from the north and only had 5 miles of bad washboard road. I drove 5 mph..... it was bad enough that I was clear that I was not going to run to the store for anything! I went during the winter solstice. Temps dropped to 9 at night but were a balmy 40ish even 50 degrees during the day which made for nice hiking. A special/sacred place.