Fawn Lakes Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $30From, per site
- Sites
- 1918 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Fawn Lakes Campground is located in Carson National Forest, one of a few campgrounds located along the scenic canyons of Red River. Visitors enjoy fishing and exploring nearby hiking trails. Keep reading
Recreation
Located between Questa and Red River, many activities such as hiking and fishing are available to visitors either at the campground or a short drive away. There is fishing access for Red River and to the nearby small lakes. Columbine Trailhead is within 4 miles and starts at Columbine Campground.
Facilities
The campground contains 18 family overnight sites, of which three are tent-only sites. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Firewood is available for purchase from the host.
Natural Features
The Red River runs adjacent to the campground. The surrounding mountains comprise a beautiful forest of ponderosa pine that blankets the campground and offers partial shade. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (928) 537-8888.
Nearby Attractions
The City of Red River is about 3 miles away, with groceries, gas, showers, laundry facilities and a café. An RV dump station is within 1 mile of the campground.
What the agency tells you
Standard Single Family sites: Recreation Use Fee allows ONE camping unit ONLY.
Extra Vehicles: Cannot be paid for in advance - upon arrival coordinate with the host for payment and where to park.
Late Arrivals: campers are not considered a "no-show" until 24 hours after arrival date check in time. Our policy is that your site will not be released before that.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
FIRST COME FIRST SERVE sites must be booked in person. DO NOT call to determine availability, as they are only available on-site.
Bears frequent the area: please obey all food storage rules and regulations. Check with your host for details.
Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Click here for more information about Carson National Forest.
Opening and closing dates are weather permitting, please call 928-537-8888 for more information.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 19 · 5 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…of which three are tent-only sites. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Firewood is…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…are tent-only sites. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Firewood is available for purchase…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Night sky · 68th darkest of 164 in NM
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 18 of the 19 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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, $30 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
19 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 18 mapped sitesAll 19 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. 18 of the 19 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| FAWN LAKES CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 54 ft | 151 ftRed River | $30 | |
| FAWN LAKES CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 67 ft | 102 ftRed River | $30 | |
| FAWN LAKES CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 67 ft | 65 ftRed River | $30 | |
| FAWN LAKES CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 70 ft | 130 ftRed River | $30 | |
| FAWN LAKES CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 42 ft | 17 ftRed River | $30 | |
| FAWN LAKES CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 42 ft | under 10 ftRed River | $30 | |
| FAWN LAKES CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 69 ft | 64 ftRed River | $30 | |
| FAWN LAKES CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 43 ft | 120 ftRed River | $30 | |
| FAWN LAKES CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 43 ft | 153 ftRed River | $30 | |
| FAWN LAKES CAMPGROUND | 015 | type not stated | 30 ft | 146 ftRed River | |||
| FAWN LAKES CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 77 ft | 208 ftRed River | $30 |
| FAWN LAKES CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 77 ft | 213 ftRed River | $30 | |
| FAWN LAKES CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 58 ft | 201 ftRed River | $30 | |
| FAWN LAKES CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 54 ft | 165 ftRed River | $30 | |
| TENT LOOP | 008 | tent only nonelectric | 49 ft | under 10 ftRed River | $30 | ||
| TENT LOOP | 009 | tent only nonelectric | 28 ft | 12 ftRed River | $30 | ||
| TENT LOOP | 010 | tent only nonelectric | 90 ft | 42 ftRed River | $30 | ||
| TENT LOOP | 011 | tent only nonelectric | 90 ft | 29 ftRed River | $30 | ||
| TENT LOOP | 012 | tent only nonelectric | 28 ft | 16 ftRed River | $30 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Elephant Rock CampgroundCarson National Forest · 1.0 miJunebug CampgroundCarson National Forest · 1.2 miFawn Lakes CampgroundCarson National Forest · 1.3 miLa Bobita CampgroundCarson National Forest · 2.4 mi
Columbine Campground (NM)Carson National Forest · 4.7 miEl Aguaje Campground ShelterRío Grande Del Norte National Monument · 13 miFrom Red River, drive approximately 3 miles west on NM-38.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Red River, NM
Typical weather
Typical October night 25°F, day 56°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 7°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Fawn Lakes 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 →