Field Tract Campground
1Heads up1 fire 18 mi away
Closed for want of money or people is a choice somebody made.Ask who decided →
- Right now
- ClosedThe agency’s own sentence, quoted below
- Sites
- 15In the agency’s record
- Season
- May 1 – October 31Open May 1 through October 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
Please note that Field Tract Campground is currently closed until further notice due to necessary repairs on the shelters. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to restore the facilities. Field Tract Campground is located on the banks of the beautiful Pecos River. The campground is 10 miles north of the village of Pecos. Visitors enjoy Field Tract for its family friendly atmosphere, fishing and access to the Santa Fe National Forest. Keep reading
Recreation
Field Tract Campground offers excellent fishing access on the Pecos River. There are nearby picnicking sites with changes in scenery. There are multiple trails found in the canyon as well.
Facilities
This medium sized campground offers tent and RV camping, portable toilets, drinking water, picnic tables and grills. Six of the 15 units have three-sided shelters. Campsites are suitable for trailers up to 22 feet in length.
Natural Features
Situated on the Pecos River, Field Tract Campground provides an inviting forested setting. The Sangre De Cristo Mountains surround the Pecos Canyon and provide magnificent opportunities for wildlife viewing. Bald eagles migrate through the winter, and can be seen soaring throughout the canyon.
Nearby Attractions
Field Tract Campground offers direct access to the Pecos River and there are many terrific fishing opportunities nearby. There are also trailheads providing access to the Pecos Wilderness as well as climbing opportunities within 10 miles.
What the agency tells you
Please note that Field Tract Campground is currently closed until further notice due to necessary repairs on the shelters. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to restore the facilities.
Potable water is available.
There is a host at this campground.
Everything else this campground posts · 10
Campground gate closes at 8P.M. for security purposes.
ANIMAL ALERTS: CAUTION, Bears frequent the area. All food must be kept in approved containers.
No ATV's, ORV's, horses or horse trailers allowed in the campground.
Firewood is not available.
Pets must be leashed at all times.
Campground quiet hours are from 10P.M. to 6A.M.
Each campsite is only allowed two vehicles. A trailer pulled by a truck is considered to be one vehicle. An additional fee of $8/day will be charged for the second vehicle. The second vehicle fee will be paid at the pay station in the campground.
For more information please call the Pecos/Las Vegas Ranger District at (505) 757-6121.
Click here for more information on the Santa Fe National Forest
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 15 · 3 cabin
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 62 ft
- Paved pads
- 14 of 15
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Portable Toilets
- “…campground offers tent and RV camping, portable toilets, drinking water, picnic tables and grills. Six of…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…tent and RV camping, portable toilets, drinking water, picnic tables and grills. Six of the 15 units have…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Climbing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 129th darkest of 164 in NM
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 6 days ago, 14 km away
- Peak color
Nothing to book until it reopens
Please note that Field Tract Campground is currently closed until further notice due to necessary repairs on the shelters.
The closure above is the reading. We hold no availability snapshot for this campground, so there’s no thirty-night strip to draw under it.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 9
What you actually pay
“An additional fee of $8/day will be charged for the second vehicle.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
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 · 4
What the agency said · 1
Please note that Field Tract Campground is currently closed until further notice due to necessary repairs on the shelters.
U.S. Forest Service · posted Sep 9, 2026
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Black Canyon CampgroundSanta Fe National Forest · 8.7 mi
- Cowles CampgroundSanta Fe National Forest · 8.8 mi · walk-up
- Jacks Creek Group AreaSanta Fe National Forest · 11 mi · 2 sites
- E.V. Long CampgroundSanta Fe National Forest · 15 mi
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
15 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 15 mapped sitesAll 15 sites
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| Field Tract | 001 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 138 ft | 269 ft |
| Field Tract | 002 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 90 ft | 332 ft |
| Field Tract | 003 | shelter nonelectric | 43 ft | 90 ft | 288 ft |
| Field Tract | 004 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 106 ft | 182 ft |
| Field Tract | 005 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 66 ft | 79 ft |
| Field Tract | 006 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 66 ft | 107 ft |
| Field Tract | 007 | shelter nonelectric | 38 ft | 93 ft | 69 ft |
| Field Tract | 008 | shelter nonelectric | 52 ft | 48 ft | 77 ft |
| Field Tract | 009 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 48 ft | 126 ft |
| Field Tract | 010 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 48 ft | 142 ft |
| Field Tract | 011 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 28 ft | 190 ft |
| Field Tract | 012 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 28 ft | 199 ft |
| Field Tract | 013 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 78 ft | 328 ft |
| Field Tract | 014 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 63 ft | 254 ft |
| Field Tract | 015 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 63 ft | 256 ft |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Holy Ghost Group AreaSanta Fe National Forest · 6.3 miBig Tesuque CampgroundSanta Fe National Forest · 8.6 miBlack Canyon CampgroundSanta Fe National Forest · 8.7 miCowles CampgroundSanta Fe National Forest · 8.8 miField Tract Campground is located 10 miles north of Pecos on the right-hand side.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for La Cueva, NM
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 67°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 35°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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 · a letter you can send
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
Field Tract 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 →
Who can change it · 3
Filed as maintenance from the agency’s own words “until further notice”. That reading is ours. The draft to the agency asks what closed Field Tract Campground, what reopening it would cost and what date they’re working towards. The draft to Congress asks them to put the same question in writing and to fund the answer.
- The member who votes the moneyTeresa Leger FernandezU.S. Representative · New Mexico’s 3rd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationBen Ray LujánU.S. Senator · New Mexico
- Your senator, on the same appropriationMartin HeinrichU.S. Senator · New Mexico
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who found out at the gate, or a week before the trip. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to find out what reopening Field Tract Campground would cost, and to treat the deferred-maintenance line as the thing that decides it.
Subject Field Tract Campground is closed (Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico)
Dear Teresa Leger Fernandez, I’m a constituent in New Mexico’s 3rd district. I went to camp at Field Tract Campground, Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico and found it closed. The notice says: "Please note that Field Tract Campground is currently closed until further notice due to necessary repairs on the shelters." (https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/273758, read Oct 16, 2026) That’s a maintenance closure, which makes it a budget question before it’s anything else. A campground doesn’t need this work because of bad luck. It needs it because the work was deferred until it couldn’t be deferred any longer. Please ask the U.S. Forest Service, in writing, what reopening Field Tract Campground would cost and where that work sits on their own list. And when their budget comes to a vote, treat the recreation and deferred-maintenance lines as the thing that decides whether these 15 campsites are open next season. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Field Tract Campground (Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico) via campanac.com
Asks them to find out what reopening Field Tract Campground would cost, and to treat the deferred-maintenance line as the thing that decides it.
Subject Field Tract Campground is closed (Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico)
Dear Ben Ray Luján, I’m a constituent in New Mexico. I went to camp at Field Tract Campground, Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico and found it closed. The notice says: "Please note that Field Tract Campground is currently closed until further notice due to necessary repairs on the shelters." (https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/273758, read Oct 16, 2026) That’s a maintenance closure, which makes it a budget question before it’s anything else. A campground doesn’t need this work because of bad luck. It needs it because the work was deferred until it couldn’t be deferred any longer. Please ask the U.S. Forest Service, in writing, what reopening Field Tract Campground would cost and where that work sits on their own list. And when their budget comes to a vote, treat the recreation and deferred-maintenance lines as the thing that decides whether these 15 campsites are open next season. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Field Tract Campground (Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico) via campanac.com
Asks them to find out what reopening Field Tract Campground would cost, and to treat the deferred-maintenance line as the thing that decides it.
Subject Field Tract Campground is closed (Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico)
Dear Martin Heinrich, I’m a constituent in New Mexico. I went to camp at Field Tract Campground, Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico and found it closed. The notice says: "Please note that Field Tract Campground is currently closed until further notice due to necessary repairs on the shelters." (https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/273758, read Oct 16, 2026) That’s a maintenance closure, which makes it a budget question before it’s anything else. A campground doesn’t need this work because of bad luck. It needs it because the work was deferred until it couldn’t be deferred any longer. Please ask the U.S. Forest Service, in writing, what reopening Field Tract Campground would cost and where that work sits on their own list. And when their budget comes to a vote, treat the recreation and deferred-maintenance lines as the thing that decides whether these 15 campsites are open next season. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Field Tract Campground (Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico) via campanac.com