Camping Lago Roca | Established Campground

Argentina

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Verified:
16 days ago
Altitude:
211.0 masl
Website:
None
Phone:
None
Contributor:
panamnotes.com

Amenities

Electricity:
Yes - At Sites
Wifi:
Yes - Average
Kitchen:
Yes
Restaurant:
Yes
Showers:
Hot
Water:
Potable
Toilets:
Running Water
Big Rig Friendly:
Yes
Tent Friendly:
Yes
Pet Friendly:
No
Sanitation Dump Station:
Unknown

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Description

Campground with fantastic facilities, within the Glaciares NP. About 1hr drive from the Perito Mereno Glacier parking but absolutely worth it.

Nice campsite with bench, fireplace (wood for sale at reception) and light, electricity (from 19-24 hours) on very big, green spots with great views.
Hot showers from 9AM to 10PM, in extremely spacious and clean bathrooms. Wifi near the common areas. Large communal area, playground for kids, pool, table tennis, little shop and restaurant.

Very kind and helpful staff.

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We came here because we needed a shelter/room to spend some time with friends in windy and cold Patagonia.

The Community Room is really really good! A lot of tables, clean, Cooking Area and 4 BBQs Inside! Bring firewood or carbon from outside (its also possible to buy here, meat, Beer etc as well)

Now its 11.500 per person - would prefer the free campgrounds next to here - but there is no shelter.

Shower are very clean and hot. Lots of Space for camping.

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Price is raised up to 8000 pesos per person per night. Facilities are very clean. They clean every hour. I wished a little bit more privacy in the showers (room of 4) but it was ok. Community room is nice.
At the weekends it can be a little bit louder for middle Europeans, as the South Americans have another sense of fun and music loudness. The camping staff said they check this and it has to be quiet at 12:00 AM but they did not check the first night where we were there

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Large and good equiped camping in sector Lago Roca in Nacional Parque Los Glaciares. We paid 18.000 pesos or USD 17.50 per night for 2 persons in a truckcamper and it is absolutely worth it. If you mind the price, better go to the free campings in the park.

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The best campsite in Argentina. Perfect infrastructure and very clean. Restaurant. Magnificent environment in the trees near the lake. Very welcoming.

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Beautiful, but pricey
Currently it's $5500 pp/pn, motorhome included. They serve menu del dia for $8000, which includes some bread, a main menu, desert and una copa de vino (or something else). which to me sounds pretty OK value.
But 5500 PP/PN is quite pricey, I expected the games to be included at this price, but for pooling or table tennis you need to pay extra. Showers are nice and hot, even when it's cloudy so I don't think they are solar showers (anymore?). Facilities are nice and clean and well maintained, so at least you don't feel ripped off for the high price. Lots of great hikes around, and pro tip, take our spot (21) down by the river, gives the best view around! (Trust me, tried all the spots, yes, I'm that kind of person.. :))

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best campsite we've been to in SA. It's a beautiful spot overlooking the lake and the mountains. The campsite is super well maintained and very clean. There is a little shop that sells some food and drink, they have a pool table and table tennis, and they have a place where you can wash your clothes. The spots have a barbecue and electricity. There is good signal and the common areas have wifi. The people are really friendly too. We paid 5500 ARG pppn, which is a little on the pricier side but so so worth it. Overall 10/10

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great campsite at the lakeshore. goog for motorhome and tents. 4000 ppn
no entrance fee for this part of the park. use road 11/60 instead of #15.
less ripio, but still bumpy.

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Best campsite we’ve had on our whole trip to patagonia. Definitely worth the gravel road. We were late in season so it was really quiet (almost noone there). Took our chairs and a bottle of wine to the lake and just sat there all day enjoying the sun and the peace and quiet. Take into account though that during the weekends a lot of locals come stay at the campground with their kids

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Sehr schöner, großer und sauberer Campingplatz. Alles vorhanden. 5000$

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Best camping ever. Very clean, tidy, beautiful spot, friendly people. Vue in the lake and mountains. 3g internet. Room to cook. Bbq and light everywhere. Bikes for rent. Fishing spot.

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Perfect camping site! Every parking spot has its own lamp and charger available from 21:00 to 23:00, a wood table and bench. We parked just in front the lake and the spot was huge, with trees protection from the wind and amazing view. We paid 2.500pp no charge for the van. Common area, very spacious and clean with gas stove to cook (no pots or pans). Bathrooms and showers very clean. Hot water even to do laundry and dishes. They have a restaurant with daily menu. We played pool for 300ARS each token. They sell drinks. The lady at the reception was very friendly and explained to us everything we needed to know to visit el Perito Moreno.

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Beautiful place, friendly staff, clean ablutions, hot shower and stable internet reception with Claro.

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Lovely camp site with over 50 spots. We payed 4600 ARS for 2 people and our Jeep. Facilities include a common area with pool tables and table tennis, a kitchen, bathrooms with hot showers, opportunity to do laundry and a reception. Each camping booth has it own fireplace and table, some of them have lights and electricity. You can buy firewood bundles starting from 900 ARS.

The only negative about this site is that the Wifi is essentially nonexistent. I stood directly under the router and had a download speed of 0.12 Mbit/s. No idea why the Wifi is listed as fast, maybe it was, back in the day. Also you do not even have cell phone reception here, let alone mobile data.

But again, apart from that, a really great campsite with beautiful view of Lago Roca and the Glacier National Park. 8/10, would recommend if internet is not crucial to your stay.

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Didn’t stay here stayed in the free camping down the road. Came here after hike up Cristal which is an absolute must all the way to the top. This is a gorgeous valley such a beautiful retreat from Calafate and the surrounding desert. Just stunning. The campsite seems well equipped I just ate some tostadas and coke cola before usimg the toilet and a shower, and filled up all my water bottles before walking back to the free camping along the beach. Looked like a good place to stay. Unfortunately I met two young french walkers who got the bus to hike Cristal and being dropped in the camp wandered around then got chased by the camp staff on a quad and ordered to pay 800 pesos each for walking through the camp or they would call the police. Seems utterly ridiculous. They were harmless. Would have very much put me off staying tbh.

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All other comments are accurate. If you can, stay here 100%! Spend the day to refresh and relax. Wash clothes, shower, swim in the lake. Worth every penny.

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the contact email [email protected] on the description page is incorrect. this is our private email having visited and checked in there in 2019.

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Excelente camping, uma vista maravilhosa da lagoa, mata e geleiras.
Ducha maravilhosa, tudo muito limpo e Fernanda que nos recebeu um doce de pessoa.
Local abrigado para barraca de teto com toda estrutura.
Pagamos 4.600 pesos (R$72,00) para2 pessoas a noite.
É um parque e tem área free para acampamento também na entrada super organizado e com Guarda parque.

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Beautiful campsite, very clean, friendly staff.
They found a place for a small motorhome (lake view) even they were fully booked.
Free WiFi in common area.

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Great camping with very large spots, electricity, fireplace and a picnic table for everyone. We paid 2.000 a night pp. The toilets and showers are very clean. Beautiful setting at the lake.

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One of the best campsites in Patagonia! Great views, extremely green and grassy, well maintained. All facilities are superb: spots with benches, fire pits, light and electricity (on certain hours). Bathrooms warm, with toilet paper, hot showers (untill dark) and very clean. Common areas large, fun, entertainment (pool, pingpong, playground), fire wood for sale, little restaurant. They also have some cabanas. Camping cost dec 2022: 2.000 pesos pp. Situated in the NP, still one hour drive from the Glacier but absolutely worth it!

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Beautiful and very spacious campsite with spectacular views overlooking the lake and the mountains. Best bathrooms/showers we’ve had so far, heated building, very hot and high pressure, and SUPER CLEAN. Nice common areas where you can cook or hang out, there’s even pool/billiart tables available in restaurant building. Very friendly and attentive staff. Electricity via generator available from 19:00 to midnight. Paid 2000 pppn.

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Really nice campsite close to the lake. The cleanest bathrooms we ever had on a campsite. We paid 2000.- pp/night.

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Great spot with wind protection bbq area , excellent shower!
550 pppn

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The badroom is one of the best we had. They keep it very clean en the water is really hot. It's a bit of a long road on a gravel road but if you want to relax with a hot shower this is the place.

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Very good equipped campground in the southern part of National Park Los Glaciares. State road in very bad shape, a pity; in the park a bit less worse. Very big terrain, long walking distance to only - superbly equipped - bath, showers and bathrooms depending on sites selected.

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A great place. Expensive at AR480/pp. Wifi AR100/hr. Good 4G with Claro though. Owner states it is open all year.

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They are open again, opening days are 1th of November till 10th of April (depending on the weather). Very nice and helpful staff, nice spots for a campervan close to a lake.

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Huge grassy campsite, every spot has a number assigned, parrillas, light and electricity in every place. Some of the spots have view to the lake and can be very private. Officially dogs are forbidden but they allowed us to stay with ours as the season was almost over and just a couple families were there. Huge clean bathrooms with hot showers, dedicated places to do laundry and wash dishes. Interior area to play pool or to hang around. If you have an Argentinian cellphone chip you can buy WiFi at the reception.

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Beautiful well maintained campsite. Friendly staff, best hot shower in patagonia so far! Amenities very clean. Good facilities at the camping sites. It was raining all day when we were here, common room was good. 320 argentinan pesos per person per night.

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excellent overall. beautiful campground in a parkland setting. somewhat old-school bathrooms but spotless and lots of hot water. lovely staff. no Wi-Fi.

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Very nice campground. Probably under new management: friendly staff, clean (heated) bathrooms, hot showers, warm water at sinks, even warm water at laundry sinks at the outside of the building, emptied garbage bins all over the terrain, even the ashes are removed from all BBQs every day. Cut grass at sites. Showers closed at night.

Large communal room with tables and seats, stove, and two huge indoor fire places with four large, height adjustable grates. Great as a shelter and for cooking when the weather is bad.

Latest pricing: 320 ARS per person per day (EUR 7,5). Electricity available between 19:00 and 23:00 (or later). Slow WiFi 70 pesos per 30 minutes (can be used in fractions). WiFi only during electricity hours. Claro GSM antenna across the road: bring a Claro prepaid SIM for your phone.

Ended up staying three nights. Hiked up the Cerro Cristal the second day for its great views.

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Pulled in to stay and staff were very unfriendly - watching us search for reception. Feels like a holiday camp set-up and nobody seemed to be staying there. $240 pesos pppn. 10 pesos per 10 minutes of wi-fi. They sell wood [90 pesos]. The cost, staff indifference and lack of atmosphere sent us back to the free site back down the road.

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Nice campsite but expensive. 240/adult 170/child. Lots of people during weekend for camping or picknick. More quiet during the week.

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Not so close to glacier as it looks like (about 60 km)

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Nice campsite with fireplace (bring own wood) and electricity (from 19-23 hours)
Hot showers
Wifi ($15 peso hour)
200 peso pp/on. Bit expensive, good for one night with shower and do wash ups etc.
watch out for check out time coz they will charge you extra

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just stopping by for a night so it was kind of a bummer that the showers don't start until 9am. makes is hard to get out early in the morning, especially if the sun is already out at 5am. Showers run out of hot water a little after 9 because of the demand spike, and this was with the campground at probably less than 10% full.

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37 large, well spaced camp sites and 8 cabanas. Each camp site has picnic table, fire pit, electric outlet, lamp. Some sites (e.g. 33 and 34) have great view of Lago Roca and mountains at cost of more wind exposure. Central toilets, showers, kitchen, and cooking building. Everything clean and well maintained. Professionally run by very friendly staff. 200 pesos per person. Walk to nearby Lago Roca and viewpoints. Near end of well marked 30 km dirt road, do not need 4wd.

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Very nice and quiet location in the middle of nature with wonderful views. Large sites, you might have the feeling you are all alone. Wooden tables/benches, BBQs, most of the sites have light and a water tap. Very well maintained. Bathrooms extremely clean and well maintained, heated. Sinks for dishes or laundry with hot water at sanitary building. Wifi for 15 Pesos from 19.00-24.00. Very expensive: 200 Pesos per Person per night but worth it.

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We stayed at the free camping next door. Tourist info told us this place costs 200ap per person.

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VERY big Campsites. Day visitors from Calafate can be annoying. You have to pay to get a WiFi card (Ar$15 for 1 hour) mine did not run out so surfed for hours.

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A very nice grass campsite with plenty of room at each spot situated some 20kms down the RP15 from the turn to Perito Moreno Glacier....it is then a further 45kms to the glacier itself and as the road is quite rough in places it will take you 60 minutes from here to get to the glacier itself. The showers were hot and plenty of water, but in the men's showers one was not working, one had no shower head which left with only one in full working order, no problem for us as there were only two other campers when we were here on a Monday. Showers available from 9am to 10pm. Power iavailable when the generator is on from 7pm to midnight,if you are here at a quiet time you will have to go and ask them to turn on the generator. The restaurant offers a "meal of the day" for AP175 each and pizzas, plus they have an expensive shop for basics like milk. You can have internet by purchasing a card for AP15 for one hour, speed is quite slow. We felt that to be charged AP150 each for this camp was expensive....alternatively, 2kms before this campground you can free camp at Libre El Huala.

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Awsome campground, one of the most beautiful we stayed in Argentina! Large sites with BBQ, table/bench combination and power/light ( 7pm - 12pm). Several water tabs in the area. Well kept, short grass and clean. Common area with kitchen and onsite restaurant. Super clean bathrooms with hot showers all day. Some sites have a beautiful view on the lake. Wifi for 15 pesos/hour extra ( 7pm - 12pm). Approx 65km to the glacier. Expensive but absolutely worth the money. We paid 120 pesos per person/night.

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One of the best campgrounds in South America

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Pay campground 2 miles down the road from the free area with elec and the usual amenities. We had heard it was a good campground, but we went for the budget camping.

AR$44 per person..

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The most beautiful and best kept and arranged campsite we have visited in Argentina. Clean bathrooms which have European standards. Showers with hot water 24 hours. Spacious sites, cut grass, shady trees, some with views of the lake. Benches and tables and grills at each site. WIFI for 14 arg. Peso / hour from 7pm. If you visit the glacier Perito Moreno (100 arg. Peso / person, S 50.46351 73.02423 W, 195 m) before or after, no additional parking entrance of 28 must arg. Peso / person to be paid.

Only three kilometers away there is the free camping "El Huala" S 50.53085 72.78953 W, 202 m. Also on the shores of Lake Roca, but without facilities.

(56 arg. Peso / person)

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