Fourth of July Campground
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 12 of the next 30 nights read 15:40 UTC
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 18All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located just outside of the Manzano Mountain Wilderness in the Mountainair Ranger District sits Fourth of July Campground. Here, at the mouth of Tajique Canyon, visitors come to see the largest stand of Bigtooth Maples in New Mexico and enjoy the wooded campground and nearby trails. The campground has a mix of first come first served sites as well as reservable sites. The Albuquerque Trail, Crimson Maple Trail, and Fourth of July Trail are easily accessed from the campground and offer recreation opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
Birding, hiking, and horse riding are popular activities in and around the Fourth of July area.
Natural Features
Many sites and communal areas offer shade from the various maple trees that turn bright oranges and reds in the autumn months.
What the agency tells you
During First Come First Serve season of October through March, the campground may close periodically due to unsafe weather conditions. While the campground may be open year-round, these weather conditions may dictate when the campground is accessible and the gate opened. Please call the ranger station ahead of time at 505-847-2990 to see if the gate is open during this time period.
There is no water at this campground.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 18
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 16 of 18 sites
Full this Saturdayread 15:40 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBookedClosedNot reservable
Every one of the 5 sites on offer is taken this Saturday, and on three midweek nights after it as well. read 15:40 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
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 · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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 15:40 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
19 records
All 19 records
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.
| Gallo | 1 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Gallo | 10 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Gallo | 11 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Gallo | 12 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Gallo | 2 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Gallo | 3 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Gallo | 4 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Gallo | 5 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Gallo | 6 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Gallo | 7 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Gallo | 8 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Gallo | 9 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Host | Host | host pad | $10 |
| Mosca | 13 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Mosca | 14 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Mosca | 15 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Mosca | 16 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| Mosca | 17 | standard nonelectric | $10 |
| S&P | Standard S&P | type not stated | $10 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.