State Parks

State Parks Links

• New Mexico State Parks Up-to-date information about New Mexico's state parks, including recreation activities, facilities, special events, fees, regulations, maps, and photos.
  
  
• Sumner Lake Offers fishing for a variety of species and is a winter haven for migrating waterfowl. Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
  
• Santa Rosa Lake A high plains Pecos River reservoir, offers a variety of water sports and fishing.
  
• Rock Hound State Park Small park near Deming where semi-precious stones may be collected. Site includes some photographs and information.
  
• Clayton Lake Offers excellent fishing and walk a half-mile to the lake's spillway and see the internationally significant dinosaur trackway, containing more than 500 footprints dating back more than 100 million years. Seneca, New Mexico.
  
• Navajo Lake Three separate recreation areas comprise this park. Pine River, the most developed area along the lake, includes a visitor center with interpretive exhibits. Sims Mesa is across the lake. The San Juan River area below the dam is world renowned for excellent trout fishing. Navajo Dam, New Mexico.
  
• Bluewater Lake
  
• Pancho Villa Contains extensive historical exhibits of the raid on Columbus, New Mexico by the soldiers of General Francisco "Pancho" Villa.
  
• Storrie Lake Wind-surfing, fishing and boating. The visitor center features historical exhibits about the Santa Fe Trail and 19th century Las Vegas, New Mexico.
  
• Pancho Villa State Park Pancho Villa State Park, Columbus, New Mexico
  
• Elephant Butte Lake The largest and most popular lake in New Mexico.
  
• Oliver Lee Memorial Set against the Sacramento Mountains, this park features historical exhibits and a fully restored 19th century ranch house. Alamogordo, New Mexico.
  
• Valley of Fires Recreation Area An area many square miles of buckled, twisted lava, 9 miles northwest of the windswept town of Carrizozo
  
• Rio Grande Nature Center Winter home to Canada geese, sandhill cranes, and various species of ducks and other waterfowl. A trail system along the river, classrooms, and an extensive library with viewing areas add to this valuable public resource in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  
• City of Rocks Faywood, New Mexico.
  
• Brantley Lake Carlsbad, New Mexico.
  
• Leasburg Dam Offers fishing, canoeing and kayaking. Located near Radium Springs, New Mexico.
  
• El Vado Lake Located in New Mexico's northern mountains El Vado Lake offers fishing, boating, hiking, water-skiing, and winter cross-country skiing.
  
• Morphy Lake Undeveloped area is accessible by foot or by high-clearance vehicle. Guadalupita, New Mexico.
  
• Villanueva Between high red sandstone bluffs along the Pecos River, near the picturesque Spanish-colonial village of Villanueva. A riverside park situated in a canyon of red and yellow sandstone cliffs.
  
• Sugarite Canyon Located on the Colorado border near Raton, New Mexico, the park features heavily wooded mountains and meadows painted with wildflowers. Fishing, boating, hiking, cross-country ski, camping and picnic areas.
  
• Living Desert Dedicated to the interpretation of the Chihuahuan Desert, Living Desert State Park is an indoor/outdoor living museum displaying more than 40 native animal species and hundreds of succulents from around the world on a 1.3 mile guided tour. Carlsbad, New Mexico.
  
• Heron Lake Designated as a "quiet lake" where boats operate at no-wake speeds only. This park is known for its excellent sailing, fishing, cross-country skiing, and hiking. Los Ojos, New Mexico.
  
• Hyde Memorial Located close to the Santa Fe National Forest.
  
• Oasis Set among cottonwood trees, shifting sand dunes, and a small fishing lake. Portales, New Mexico.
  
• Rockhound A favorite for "rockhounds" because of the abundant agates and quartz crystals found there, on the rugged west slope of the Little Florida Mountains. Demming, New Mexico.
  
• Percha Dam Features fishing and hiking on the Rio Grande, located at Caballo, New Mexico.
  
• Cimarron Canyon Part of the 33,116-acre Colin Neblett Wildlife Area -- the largest wildlife area in the state. Located in Eagle Nest.
  
• New Mexico Guide - Living Desert State Park Park which exhibits the varied plants and animals of the arid Chihuahuan Desert located near Carlsbad.
  
• Ute Lake A Canadian River reservoir, offers some of the best walleye fishing in New Mexico. Logan, New Mexico.
  
• Bottomless Lakes Roswell, New Mexico.
  
• Conchas Lake Offers a wide variety of water sport activities including boating, fishing and water-skiing at this 25-mile long reservoir. Conchas Dam, New Mexico.
  
• Fenton Lake A popular year-round retreat surrounded by beautiful ponderosa pine forests, the park features a cross-country ski and biathlon trail and wheelchair accessible fishing platforms. Close to Jemez Springs, New Mexico.
  
• Coyote Creek Located in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Guadalupita, New Mexico.
  
• Manzano Mountains Offers fishing, bird watching, photography, hiking, and cross-country skiing near Albuquerque, in Mountainair, New Mexico.
  
• The Bisti Badlands Little visited and largely unknown, the badlands is an amazingly scenic and colourful expanse of undulating mounds and unusual eroded rocks covering 4000 acres, hidden away in the high desert that covers the distant northwest corner of New Mexico.
  
• Caballo Lake Caballo, New Mexico. This park's claim to fame are the majestic Bald and Golden Eagles that migrate through the area.