Blue Mesa Recreational Ranch

My husband and I stayed in the tent camping area (153), it was perfect. Tall trees, right on a small steam (perfect noise to fall asleep to), and close to the bathrooms but not too close. The bathrooms were great, didn’t use the showers but the toilets flushed, had plenty of tp and a working overhead light. Plus they were clean.
I think any of the tent camping spots would be great, they all follow the creek. The rv shots are very much in the wide open though. We don’t have kids, but lots of kiddo activities. It was also super quiet as they have electrical hookups so there were no generators running.
Everyone was nice but we kept to ourselves mostly for the night we were there

Horrible experience, staff was exceptionally rude! The grass is dead and very few trees to provide adequate shade.
I went in for a «free weekend» using one of the packages they used to lure people in to their campground. Four free nights and a pontoon boat, free, as long as you go to a ‘presentation’ at the conclusion of your stay.
The first day we went to check in, everyone was all smiles and happy to see us, we went to our spot and we were met with dead grass and not one tree providing shade within two spots of ours. So we packed up and went 8.8 miles down the street, and PAID for a spot that had green grass and gigantic trees all around.
The next day we jumped on the free pontoon boat, it was underpowered with a 50 hp motor pushing along six people on a 20′ pontoon, also, the shade canvas was ripped, the stereo head unit was there, but none of the speakers produced any sound, and the guy that checked the boat out to us reminded us, before we departed the dock, that it only starts about 50 percent of the time and how to trouble shoot it on the water, but free is free. We did have some issues with the boat on the water, but nothing we couldn’t overcome.
On day three we checked out of our paid site and went back to here, the free site, for our ‘presentation’.
John proceeded to ask us how everything was, so I told him that we hadn’t stayed at the campground because of the lack of shade and grass at our site and we went down the road and paid for a site, he balked at us and became extremely passive aggressive. At this point he asked about the pontoon boat, so I told him what had happened, John suddenly became very angry and shouts at us, «when I get something for free I guess appreciate more than you do!» and walked out of the ‘presentation’ shouting, «this is over!»
At this point I went to the front desk and asked to speak to someone about what had just happened when I explained what had just happened to the lady at the front desk, she told me that she, «would have done the same thing if I had attacked her like that too!»
I attacked nobody, I was asked how the campground was and how to pontoon boat and I gave an honest answer.
I have never been treated so rudely, especially by a business trying to earn repeat business.
At this point an older gentleman walked out and took is to the family room where he asked what had happened, I explained to him what had happened, he apologized for how his staff behaved and asked what we would like for him to do. We said we would like to pack up and leave, and bypass the last two free nights at his campground and not be charged for the pontoon boat, he agreed to that and we left.
It is an unfortunate situation that this place conducted themselves the way they did, we have just bought something I consider to be a luxury item, an RV, and have budgeted to spend money using it often. We will never be back to this place for a repeat free visit, let alone a paid visit from us.
If only everyone could have been as level headed as the last gentleman we spoke with before we left maybe we could have bought in to their package deal. We will spend our money traveling elsewhere.