Best Tent Camping: New Mexico

Amaris Feland Ketcham occupies her time with open space, white space, CMYK, flash nonfiction, long trails, f-stops, line breaks, and several Adobe programs running simultaneously. Her creative work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, the Kenyon Review, Rattle, the Utne Reader, and many more literary venues across the country. Her book of poems, A Poetic Inventory of the Sandia Mountains, was published in 2019. Amaris teaches interdisciplinary liberal arts at the University of New Mexico Honors College. Her courses include creative writing, graphic design, nonfiction comics, and bookmaking. She is the faculty advisor and instructor for the award-winning, undergraduate literature and arts magazine, Scribendi. Her work on Poetic Routes (poeticroutes.com) has been adopted by the Albuquerque City Planning Department as a way to use poetry as a means of understanding neighborhoods and community character and values throughout town. As a practitioner of creative placemaking, she has taught poetry workshops in Albuquerque’s bosque and Place as Text Institutes with the National Collegiate Honors Council. Amaris has painted murals throughout Albuquerque, acted in a radio drama about the Badlands National Park, and taken students on multiweek camping trips along the Lewis and Clark Trail.

New Mexico Campground Locator Map
Map Legend
Acknowledgments
Preface
Best Campgrounds
Introduction

Northern New Mexico




Bandelier National Monument: Juniper Family Campground
Black Canyon Campground
Blackjack Campground
Canjilon Lakes Campgrounds
Chaco Culture National Historic Park: Gallo Campground
Clear Creek Camground
Cochiti Lake and Tetilla Peak Campgrounds
Columbine Campground
Coyote Creek State Park Campground
Elephant Rock Campground
Fawn Lakes Campground
Fenton Lake State Park Campground
Holy Ghost Campground
Hopewell Lake Campground
Iron Gate Campground
Jemez Falls Campground
Paliza Family Campground
Panchuela Campground
Rio Chama Campground
Rio de las Vacas Campground
Rio Grande del Norte National Monument: Orilla Verde Campgrounds
Rio Grande del Norte National Monument: Wild Rivers Campgrounds
San Antonio Campground
Santa Barbara Campground
Sugarite Canyon State Park: Lake Alice and Soda Pocket Campgrounds
Valle Vidal: McCrystal and Cimarron Campgrounds
Villanueva State Park Campground

Southeastern New Mexico




Aguirre Springs Recreation Area Campground
Caballo Lake State Park Campground
Deerhead Campground
Fourth of July Campground
Oak Grove Campground
Percha Dam State Park Campground
Pines Campground
Red Canyon Campground
Sleepy Grass Campground
Sumner Lake State Park Campgrounds
Valley of Fires Recreation Area Campground
White Sands National Park Campground

Southwestern New Mexico




Apache Creek Campground
City of Rocks State Park Campground
Datil Well Campground
Dipping Vat Campground at Snow Lake
El Malpais National Conservation Area: Joe Skeen Campground
El Morro National Monument Campground
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument Campgrounds
Juniper Campground
Pinon Campground
Pueblo Park Campground
Water Canyon Campground

Appendix A: Camping Equipment Checklist
Appendix B: Sources of Information
Index
About the Author