Recreation Areas

Recreation Areas in New Mexico

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Facility Name Description Activities Aztec Ruins National Monument Aztec Ruins National Monument preserves structures and artifacts of Ancestral Pueblo people from the 1100's through 1200s. People associated with Chaco Canyon to the south built and used the  more... Museum/Visitor Center , Picnic Bandelier National Monument Best known for mesas, sheer-walled canyons, and the ancestral Pueblo dwellings found among them, Bandelier also includes over 23,000 acres of designated Wilderness. It was named for Adolph  more... Camping , Hiking , Museum/Visitor Center , Picnic , Restaurants and SnackBar , Wildlife Viewing Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge Located where the Chihuahuan Desert meets the southern plains, Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge provides habitat for some of the rarest creatures in New Mexico. Established in 1937 to provide  more... Autotouring , Hiking , Hunting , Museum/Visitor Center , Wildlife Viewing Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge Bosque del Apache, which means "woods of the Apache", was named for the people who often camped in the riverside forest. Today it is know as one of the most spectacular Refuges in North America.   more... Autotouring , Fishing , Hiking , Hunting , Museum/Visitor Center , Wildlife Viewing Capulin Volcano National Monument Mammoths, giant bison, and short-faced bears were witness to the first tremblings of the earth and firework-like explosions of molten rock thousands of feet into the air. Approximately 60,000 years  more... Autotouring , Hiking , Museum/Visitor Center , Picnic , Wildlife Viewing Carlsbad Caverns National Park Established to preserve Carlsbad Cavern and numerous other caves within a Permian-age fossil reef, the park contains more than 100 known caves, including Lechuguilla Cave?the nation's deepest  more... Hiking , Museum/Visitor Center , Picnic , Restaurants and SnackBar , Wildlife Viewing Carson National Forest Some of the finest mountain scenery in the Southwest is found in the 1.5 million acres covered by the Carson National Forest. Elevations rise from 6,000 feet to 13,161 feet at Wheeler Peak, the  more... Autotouring , Camping , Climbing , Fishing , Hiking , Historic/Cultural Sites , Hunting , Museum/Visitor Center , Offhighway Vehicles , Pets , Picnic , Recreational Vehicles , Restaurants and SnackBar , Wildlife Viewing , Winter Sports Casamero Chacoan Outliers Recreation Management Area Casamero Pueblo was occupied by the Chacoan Anasazi between A.D. 1000 and 1125. It is an excellent example of a Chacoan outlier (an outlying community connected to Chaco Canyon by prehistoric roads),  more... Chaco Culture National Historical Park Chaco Culture National Historical Park preserves one of America's most significant and fascinating cultural and historic areas. Chaco Canyon was a major center of ancestral Puebloan culture  more... Biking , Camping , Hiking , Museum/Visitor Center , Picnic Cibola National Forest The Cibola National Forest is comprised of 13 separate parcels of land scattered eastward from west central New Mexico into northeastern New Mexico, the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles and western  more... Autotouring , Biking , Camping , Fishing , Hiking , Historic/Cultural Sites , Horseback Riding , Hunting , Museum/Visitor Center , Offhighway Vehicles , Pets , Picnic , Recreational Vehicles , Restaurants and SnackBar , Wildlife Viewing

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