U.S. Forest Service · Santa Fe National Forest · NM

Borrego Mesa Campground

1Heads up1 fire 6.4 mi away
Wildfire
Frijoles fire · 6.4 mi away · 15,956 acres · 90% contained · updated Sep 24, 2026
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
Drawn from the record · 8,730 ft · 32% tree cover · Rio Medio within reach · Bortle 3 sky
8,730 ftElevation
2,165 ftWater · Rio Medio
7.8 miE of Chimayo, NM
32%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 108th darkest of 164 in NM

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

The Borrego Mesa Campground is located close to several trailheads leading into the north half of the Pecos Wilderness. Amenities include picnic tables, firepits, and small corrals at each site suitable for one or two horses. The vaulted toilet is currently not in service. Adjacent to and south of the campground is the Rio Medio Trailhead, one of the major trailheads into the Pecos Wilderness. The campground is rather primitive and little used, and is much less developed than most. The campground is rather primitive and receives little use; it is much less developed than most. It is primarily used for picnicking by locals from nearby communities, and also serves those who use it for an overnight stay before embarking on a horsepack or backpack into the Pecos. There is ample space for trailer/RV camping, but no dump station is available. There is no potable water and no campground host.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Vault Toilets
“…site suitable for one or two horses. The vaulted toilet is currently not in service. Adjacent to and south…”
Drinking water
None, bring your own
“…but no dump station is available. There is no potable water and no campground host.”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

Fall color · reported 5 days ago, 23 km away
Peak color
Source: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (23 km) · Oct 11, 2026

Phone before you drive

recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 15, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 3

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight27°Mostly Clear
Friday54°Sunny
Friday Night26°Mostly Clear
Saturday56°Sunny

NWS forecast for Truchas, NM

Typical weather

Typical October night 32°F, day 61°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 18°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

80°32°10°

Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more

A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.

Measured at: GASCON, NM (USC00293488), 19 miles away and 480 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless
Rio Medio2,844 acres · 4 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Who answers for this land

Teresa Leger Fernandez, official portrait

Borrego Mesa Campground is in New Mexico’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Teresa Leger Fernandez (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (23 km) · Oct 11, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Truchas, NM, 3.1 mi SSE (a census designated place). Straight line.