Mingus Mountain Camp — Hotel in Cottonwood

Back for my second year in a row 05.18.2018 camping with about 70 adults. The setting is just beautiful but be aware you're over 2,200 m so make allowances. There are cabins and lodges. Fees are about $70/nt with all meals. I stayed in a lodge that can accommodate 30 but there were about half that in mine. Beds are bunk beds with no linens. Lodges have large clean toilets with nice showers, large fully equipped kitchens and a beautiful stone fireplace with plenty of chopped wood all ready. Unfortunately early summer can be extremely dry and very dangerous for fires so no fires of any kind were allowed anywhere in the National Forest. Same time last year it snowed and we had roaring fires. There are javelina, rattlesnakes and gopher holes in the meadow so watch where you step! Food is served "family style" and is excellent - fresh, homemade, varied and plentiful. There's always excellent oatmeal for breakfast and a nice salad bar for lunch and dinner. Dessert was always a treat. There was no alcohol at all when I was there, but I don't know if that's always true. A beer or glass of wine would have been nice. The Methodists have a real treasure less then two hours from crazy Phoenix and they're making the most of it. Listen for the...

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I love the humbling/spiritual experience this place can give you. Such a relaxing environment of just what is needed to disconnect from certain things and connect with some well needed things. The one thing that I did find hard to deal with is when there is enough bathrooms for all including kids and adults I just don't really feel that it is fair to make everybody use the same bathroom. I do see people maybe having the right to choose which one but making everybody share can be very controlling. The other thing I did find a little off-putting was blaming the campers for the shortage of food when I think it was obvious that there wasn't that many people being greedy with the portions. I do think two to three pieces of meat on a big piece of bread would be an example of campers not being greedy and that was one out of a...