Clear Creek Campground (NM)
1Heads up1 fire 15 mi away
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 24 of the next 30 nights read 16:47 UTC
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 12All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Less than two hours from the city of Albuquerque, Clear Creek Campground is nestled away in the Jemez Mountains. This cool oasis offers refuge from the New Mexico heat. Visitors delight in the hiking and fishing opportunities available in the shade of the pine covered Jemez Mountains. To make a reservation for the Clear Creek Campground Group site please visit: https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/10098564 Recreation Local streams and the San Gregorio reservoir provide fishing opportunities for anglers, and hikers will delight in the many hiking opportunities in the nearby San Pedro Parks Wilderness. Keep reading
Facilities
Clear Creek Campground includes paved RV pads, fire rings, picnic tables, and vault toilets.
Natural Features
The campground is located amid stunning ponderosa pines in close proximity to Clear Creek. In the fall, elk can be heard bugling in the early mornings and late evenings.
Nearby Attractions
The San Pedro Parks Wilderness, just north of the Clear Creek Campground, offers easy and scenic day hikes. The minimal grade increases of the trails into the San Pedro Parks make this wilderness an ideal backpacking destination for beginners and experienced backpackers alike. Three main trailheads, the San Gregorio, Palomas, and Los Pinos, are within driving distance of the campground.
What the agency tells you
Online reservations are payment for two vehicles MAXIMUM; that includes the tow vehicle or RV and one additional vehicle.
Fire restrictions may exist. Check with the Cuba Ranger District if you are unsure.
No ATV/ORV use in the campground. Travel is restricted elsewhere on the forest.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Check out is at 11:00 AM, Check in time is 1:00 PM.
Before making a reservation, check the driveway details to ensure your vehicle equipment will fit on the site.
Quiet Hours are from 10:00 PM - 7:00 AM
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 12
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 47 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…RV pads, fire rings, picnic tables, and vault toilets. Natural Features The campground is located amid…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Creek
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Night sky · 66th darkest of 164 in NM
- Bortle 2
8 of 24 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:47 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBookedNot reservable
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 16:47 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
12 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 12 mapped sitesAll 12 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 12 of the 12 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Main Road | 001 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 173 ft | 118 ft | $20 |
| Main Road | 002 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 113 ft | 112 ft | $20 |
| Main Road | 003 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 56 ft | 113 ft | $20 |
| Main Road | 004 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 127 ft | 204 ft | $20 |
| Main Road | 005 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 64 ft | 173 ft | $20 |
| Main Road | 006 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 38 ft | 130 ft | $20 |
| Main Road | 007 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 38 ft | 118 ft | $20 |
| Main Road | 008 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 113 ft | 136 ft | $20 |
| Main Road | 009 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 110 ft | 264 ft | $20 |
| Main Road | 010 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 110 ft | 294 ft | $20 |
| Main Road | 011 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 127 ft | 292 ft | $20 |
| Main Road | 012 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 166 ft | $20 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Rio De Las Vacas CampgroundSanta Fe National Forest · 0.8 mi
Clear Creek Group Campground (NM)Santa Fe National Forest · 1.1 miRio Puerco CampgroundSanta Fe National Forest · 9.3 miResumidero Camping AreaSanta Fe National Forest · 9.6 mi
San Antonio CampgroundJemez National Recreation Area · 12 miCoyote Canyon Camping AreaSanta Fe National Forest · 12 miFrom Cuba, New Mexico, travel 11 miles east of Cuba on New Mexico State Highway 126. The campground is located approximately 11 miles from Cuba where lodging, restaurants, and gas stations are available. The campground is approximately a one and a half hour drive from Albuquerque.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cuba, NM
Typical weather
Typical October night 27°F, day 59°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 9°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Clear Creek Campground (NM) 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 →