I checked the address of Nat'l Park Retreat on Terraserver and it came up with a real fuzzy image...but the 13 acres part of the campground description sounds most encouraging. I probably got a glimpse of their large RV parking area and assumed the worst.
In any case, it's got to be better than this godforsaken RV park along US Hwy 24 just north of Buena Vista (
http://terraserver-usa.com/image.asp...p;z=13&w=2)...though a string of 14,000 foot peaks lines the valley's west side, the valley floor is hot, dusty, and dry. But you'd never know from their website just how crappy this place actually looks (
http://www.snowypeaksrvpark.com/facilities.htm).
This upper Arkansas river valley area is a classic case of a situation where the NFS campgrounds (which are in up in the mountain side valleys) are cool, lush, and green whereas the commercial campgrounds down in the main river valley are basically about as nice as migrant worker camps.