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WHUFU: Spots in New Mexico
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Spots in New Mexico

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  • Lake 13 Campground
  • Maxwell National Wildlife Refuge, Maxwell NM
  • Took me a bit of wandering down unmarked gravel roads to find the camping area, but I'm very happy I did. There's a toilet and a picnic table. Drive a little, there's boat access, a couple of trees, and a grassy area which I think is the official camping area, then the road wanders half-way around Lake 13. Nobody used the grassy area. The rain had made it a mosquito-infested bog. I parked at a wide spot in the road by the entrance, and at least one bunch of fishermen spent the night on the far side of the lake. Super nice place!

  • Coyote Creek Campground
  • New Mexico State Parks, Guadalupita NM
  • Saturdays are such a trial to the hardened traveller. Every site is taken, and it has been raining for days, so the overflow lot is a soggy mess. The nice lady said I could park on the reasonably level pad next to the bathroom. The things I do for a shower.

  • Lincoln National Forest Snow Park
  • Lincoln National Forest, Cloudcroft NM
  • Just a parking lot. Not even a porta-pottie. No trails, no views, no nothing. But is sure was nice to be able to park there overnight!

  • Guadaloupe Mountains NP
  • National Park, Carlsbad NM
  • Your two choices are tent camping and parking lot. It's a small lot, and everybody but me was running their generators till 10. Whatever is special and interesting about this park is not apparent from the road.

  • Datil Well Campground
  • Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Datil NM
  • one of my favorite little spots ever! very pretty, Datil has a quite useful store/restaurant (with wifi).

  • Hopewell Lake Campground
  • Carson National Forest, Las Piedras NM
  • Elevation 9,800' No wonder I'm a huffin and puffin A real gem of a campground, at the edge of a high mountain meadow. Today there is one a-hole running his totally unshielded generator all afternoon. Other than that, a really, nice, almost perfect campground. A google comment says the Continental Divide Trail runs through the campground. Explains those two "Trail" signs.

  • Las Petacas Campground
  • Carson National Forest, Taos NM
  • Good things about this place are that it's cheap and very close to Taos. Other than that, it's dusty, noisy, cramped and bumpy roads US 64 is way too close, so it's noisy, and after dark the headlights are annoying. It gets quiet later.

  • Escondida Lake Campground
  • Socorro County Parks, Escondida NM
  • A dusty little municipal park conveniently located right off I-25 in a sad-looking part of New Mexico.