Easter weekend crowds

There's three beaches that people boondock on in the area where I'm at. I think they all have names but I don't know what those names are so I just made up my own. This is what I call the left beach, because when you drive down the road it's on the left. Last Saturday afternoon there were two RVs camped here and this is what it looked like this morning.

There's a lot of people here at Elephant Butte State Park today but because of the almost unlimited boondocking spots I would say its nowhere near full.

Now if you're a full hookup kind of person, it is full, and probably has been full or almost full for a while. But there's so much empty space for boondocking I don't know if the Park could ever get full, it just depends on how many people you want to be around.

I believe everyone who wants to be here is here already. By lunchtime today the traffic on the main road had slowed to a trickle which was a big improvement in my life because I'm boondocked next to the main road. But it's a small slow road so the traffic is not very disturbing to me except when the kids go by with their loud mufflers and their louder stereos. Dang young whippersnappers!

Now if you're a people person, and a party animal, boondocking on one of the beaches is the place to be. There appears to be no shortage of camaraderie, music, and beer on any of the beaches..... If you don't mind having people 50 feet from you, you want some peace and quiet and the best view in the park, then boondocking up on the ridge where I'm at is hard to beat..... If you want to be off by yourself, are well acquainted with the dirt roads in the park, have no fear of soft sand, have four-wheel-drive and a winch, you can get as far away from people as your heart desires.

As much as I don't like being around a bunch of people it's actually not as bad here on a holiday as you might think. All the action is far enough away from me that it doesn't bother me. And It's  kind of interesting to see all the people, and especially the families out having fun with the kids, I wish there was more of that going on.

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This is what I call the Marina Beach, obviously because it's next to the Marina. Last Saturday there was five or six RVs here, and I assume they were boaters. It's a lot busier today.

This is Marina Beach from a different angle, it shows all the RVs boondocking here a little better.

This is a panorama of what I call the main beach it covers such a large area I couldn't get it all in one shot, so all the tents and RVs out there look pretty small. All of the little bumps on the far right side of the beach are tents.

I enlarged the far left side of that panorama to better show all of the campers spread out all along this beach.

Just for comparison, this is what main beach looked like last Saturday afternoon, and it was the most crowded of all the beaches.