Juniper Campground (Quemado Lake)
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $15–$25Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 36All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
Juniper Campground is Quemado Ranger District's most popular campground. It offers electric RV hookups (no sewer), leveled tent sites, and easy lake access. This campground is a mix of first come, first served sites and reservable sites. For more information, you can visit our website: Gila National Forest : Recreation Group - Quemado Lake Recreation Area Recreation Recreational opportunities include fishing and boating on Quemado Lake, hiking forest and lakeside trails, and RV and tent camping. Keep reading
Facilities
Boat Ramp / Tent Camping/ Trailer/RV Camping / Picnic Tables / Vault Toilets / Grills / Campfire Rings Natural Features Lake Access/ Forested / Unrestricted Night Sky Views Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (575) 773-4678.
Nearby Attractions
El Caso I-3 Campgrounds El Caso 4 & 5 Campgrounds Piñon Campground Quemado Lake and Day Use Area Boat Ramp at Quemado Lake Charges & Cancellations Cancellation Policy: A customer who cancels a reservation the day before or the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee (not to exceed the total paid for the original reservation). Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee.
What the agency tells you
All Gila National Forest sites have a 14 day stay limit.
Hunting and target shooting are prohibited in the Quemado Lake Recreation Area.
Horses are prohibited at Juniper Campground and the Quemado Lake Recreation Area. Horses are permitted only in El Caso 5 Campground.
Everything else this campground posts · 9
All pets must be on a leash except in enclosed areas.
Fires are permitted only in fire rings provided.
Tents are not allowed in RV sites (#1-#18)
Due to the campsites size, vehicles allowed in RV SITES are as follows: 1 RV or 1 RV + towed vehicle or 1 truck and trailer/fifth wheel per site. if space is available there's excess parking, please check with camp host.
Note: Cash or Check Only for First Come First Serve campsites. card payment not available. Campground Host will not have cash changes, bring exact changes.
There is little to no cell service in the area
For fishing conditions go to wildlife.dgf.nm.gov
For water conditions go to www.env.nm.gov
A dump station is available at Pinon Campground (Quemado Lake) for a $15 fee.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 36
- Hookups
- 18 electric, 18 water
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 36 of 36 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 36 of 36 campsite records, WATER SPIGOT on 18 of 36 campsite records
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Backpacking
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Kayaking
- Mountain biking
- Non-Motorized Boating
- Paddle Boating
- Paddling
- Picnicking
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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 · 16
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $15–$25 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.
“Cancellation Policy: - A customer who cancels a reservation the day before or the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's use fee (not to exceed the total paid for the original reservation).” · this campground’s own terms
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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
36 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 36 mapped sitesAll 36 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 36 of the 36 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 36 of the 36 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| RV | 01 | rv electric | 30 amp | 25 ft | 621 ft | 2,280 ft | $25 |
| RV | 02 | rv electric | 30 amp | 17 ft | 600 ft | 2,294 ft | $25 |
| RV | 03 | rv electric | 30 amp | 17 ft | 585 ft | 2,303 ft | $25 |
| RV | 04 | rv electric | 30 amp | 16 ft | 512 ft | 2,366 ft | $25 |
| RV | 05 | rv electric | 30 amp | 16 ft | 499 ft | 2,374 ft | $25 |
| RV | 06 | rv electric | 30 amp | 18 ft | 481 ft | 2,390 ft | $25 |
| RV | 07 | rv electric | 30 amp | 17 ft | 346 ft | 2,524 ft | $25 |
| RV | 08 | rv electric | 30 amp | 17 ft | 340 ft | 2,537 ft | $25 |
| RV | 09 | rv electric | 30 amp | 18 ft | 330 ft | 2,551 ft | $25 |
| RV | 10 | rv electric | 30 amp | 21 ft | 303 ft | 2,598 ft | $25 |
| RV | 11 | rv electric | 30 amp | 21 ft | 300 ft | 2,612 ft | $25 |
| RV | 12 | rv electric | 30 amp | 29 ft | 313 ft | 2,616 ft | $25 |
| RV | 13 | rv electric | 30 amp | 18 ft | 527 ft | 2,494 ft | $25 |
| RV | 14 | rv electric | 30 amp | 18 ft | 544 ft | 2,477 ft | $25 |
| RV | 15 | rv electric | 30 amp | 21 ft | 564 ft | 2,460 ft | $25 |
| RV | 16 | rv electric | 30 amp | 18 ft | 604 ft | 2,404 ft | $25 |
| RV | 17 | rv electric | 30 amp | 18 ft | 622 ft | 2,388 ft | $25 |
| RV | 18 | rv electric | 30 amp | 19 ft | 639 ft | 2,370 ft | $25 |
| Upper Loop | 19 | standard nonelectric | 146 ft | 618 ft | 2,197 ft | $15 | |
| Upper Loop | 20 | standard nonelectric | 108 ft | 497 ft | 2,253 ft | $15 | |
| Upper Loop | 21 | standard nonelectric | 91 ft | 421 ft | 2,265 ft | $15 | |
| Upper Loop | 22 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 481 ft | 2,176 ft | $15 | |
| Upper Loop | 23 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 397 ft | 2,233 ft | $15 | |
| Upper Loop | 24 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 461 ft | 2,163 ft | $15 | |
| Upper Loop | 25 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 328 ft | 2,219 ft | $15 | |
| Upper Loop | 26 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 399 ft | 2,153 ft | $15 | |
| Upper Loop | 27 | standard nonelectric | 86 ft | 345 ft | 2,160 ft | $15 | |
| Upper Loop | 28 | standard nonelectric | 86 ft | 385 ft | 2,075 ft | $15 | |
| Upper Loop | 29 | standard nonelectric | 119 ft | 248 ft | 2,152 ft | $15 | |
| Upper Loop | 30 | standard nonelectric | 165 ft | 204 ft | 2,019 ft | $15 | |
| Upper Loop | 31 | standard nonelectric | 116 ft | 345 ft | 1,843 ft | $15 | |
| Upper Loop | 32 | standard nonelectric | 116 ft | 395 ft | 1,904 ft | $15 | |
| Upper Loop | 33 | standard nonelectric | 122 ft | 484 ft | 1,934 ft | $15 | |
| Upper Loop | 34 | standard nonelectric | 124 ft | 599 ft | 1,947 ft | $15 | |
| Upper Loop | 35 | standard nonelectric | 87 ft | 623 ft | 2,004 ft | $15 | |
| Upper Loop | 36 | standard nonelectric | 87 ft | 603 ft | 2,066 ft | $15 |
25 of 36 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Pinon Campground (Quemado Lake)Apache National Forest · 0.3 miEl Caso I-IV CampgroundApache National Forest · 1.1 miArmijo Springs CampgroundApache National Forest · 5.4 mi
Valle Tio Vinces CampgroundApache National Forest · 11 miApache Creek CampgroundGila National Forest · 23 miThe campground is located 14.2 miles south of Quemado. Take NM 32 south to Quemado Lake/NM 103 sign. Turn left onto NM 103 and drive 4 miles to Quemado Lake/Forest Road 13. NM103 ends when the paved road turns to gravel. The gravel road is an indication that you are now driving on Forest Road 13. Continue driving on Forest Road 13 for 1 mile to reach the Juniper Campground. Turn right into the campground.
Latitude : 34.137543 Longitude : -108.48919 Elevation : 7,712 Feet
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Quemado, NM
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 68°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 15°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
Juniper Campground (Quemado Lake) is in New Mexico’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Gabe Vasquez (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: B. See every public-lands vote →