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U.S. Forest Service · Jemez National Recreation Area · NM

Redondo Campground

1Heads up1 fire 2.4 mi away
Wildfire
McCauley Springs fire · 2.4 mi away · 712 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 6, 2026
Fires: NIFC/IRWIN via MTJP wildfire tracker · Oct 6, 2026
ReservableBookable through November 15; the next season isn't published.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
A night
$15From, per site
Sites
62All of them booked ahead
Season
May 1Opens May 1. No closing date published.
Photos · Anna Ayres
45 ftLongest rig
8,120 ftElevation
1,508 ftWater · San Antonio Creek
16.5 miW of Los Alamos, NM
44%Tree cover
Opens May 1. No closing date published.Today

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 14 notices

In the agency’s own words

The Redondo Campground is situated in a stand of Ponderosa Pine interspersed with grass and wildflower meadows within the Jemez National Recreation Area. The campground is approximately 8,200 feet in elevation and you can plan for warm days and cool nights. The Valles Caldera National Preserve and Bandelier National Monument are within driving distance, both are accessed via the Jemez Mountains Trail National Scenic Byway (NM State Highway 4). Keep reading

Recreation

Redondo Campground is one of five developed campgrounds in the Jemez National Recreation Area on the Jemez Ranger District. There are numerous outdoor recreation opportunities throughout the Jemez National Recreation Area, from scenic driving to fishing accesses and day-use picnic areas. Redondo Campground is a brief drive from the San Diego Overlook scenic site, and within a short drive from access points to Trail 137.

Facilities

Redondo Campground has vault toilet bathrooms throughout. Electric is not available. Water is not available.

Natural Features

Redondo Campground sits at over 8,200 feet and is surrounded by mixed-conifer and Ponderosa Pine stands.

Nearby Attractions

Redondo Campground is part of the Jemez National Recreation Area. There are numerous developed, dispersed, and undeveloped recreation opportunities throughout the Jemez National Recreation Area. It is also near the Valles Caldera National Preserve, Bandelier National Monument, Dome and Bandlier Wilderness Areas, the town of Los Alamos, and a two-hour drive to Santa Fe.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

This campground is a Reservation campground starting in 2026 NO CASH is accepted at the site. All Site reservations can be made the day of your arrival.

Rule

This is a historic campground. Large RVs, fifth wheels, and longer tow-behind trailers may not fit at all sites.

Rule

Online reservations are payment for two vehicles MAXIMUM; that includes the tow vehicle or RV and one additional vehicle.

Everything else this campground posts · 11
Rule

Campsites 2 - 27 will accommodate different size RV's & Trailers, please ensure your camper/RV is within the identified sizes for that site BEFORE making your reservation. Campsites 28-62 are TENT sites ONLY, these sites will not accommodate RV's or trailers.

Rule

Check-out time is at 11:00 AM. Check-in time is at 1:00 PM.

Rule

Quiet hours are between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. Generators are not to be used between that time and all music must be turned down as to not affect fellow campers.

Rule

Dead and down only in fire rings; do not cut or chop on any standing trees.

Rule

No ATV/ORV use in the campground. Travel is restricted elsewhere on the forest.

Rule

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 .

Rule

No dump station available at this campground.

Rule

Charcoal only in pedestal grills.

Rule

There are no potable water sources in the campground. Please ensure you have enough water for your visit.

Rule

There are no electrical hookups in the campground.

Rule

Click here for more information about Santa Fe National Forest

Read them on the agency’s own page →
Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites
62
Hookups
None
Longest rig
45 ft
Paved pads
All
Accessible sites
None listed
Pets
Allowed
Campfires
Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade
Every site
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Vault Toilets
“…137. Facilities Redondo Campground has vault toilet bathrooms throughout. Electric is not available.…”
Drinking water
None, bring your own
“…throughout. Electric is not available. Water is not available. Natural Features Redondo Campground sits at over…”
Stay limit
14 nights
recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Meadow
Amphitheater
Auto Touring
Backpacking
Biking
Cultural Activities
Recreation Programs
Night sky · 98th darkest of 164 in NM
Bortle 3
Cell signal · Cell signal · Forest Service says
Spotty
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026
Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own fee notes, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise. · Sep 8, 2026

91 of 112 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:38 UTC

Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.

OpenBooked

Booking windowThrough November 15Bookable now through November 15, 2026, the end of the reservable season. The season after it isn't published yet.recreation.gov
Max stay14 nightsthe facility record
A night$15plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
A weekend$38DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itU.S. Forest ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
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Every line of the receipt · 18

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
A night$15
Single Site - 2 Vehicles$15
Rates for the season the campground is in now, May 8, 2026 to Nov 15, 2026.
Redondo Campground will be a reservation only campground starting in 2026.
Reservations will be open in 6 month increments or can be made the same day of arrival if the site is not already reserved.
Campground fees are $15 for 2 vehicles MAX per night for each site.
Redondo Campground is available for the Recreation.gov Scan & Pay program.
To utilize this program, please download the REC.GOV app prior to arriving (limited cell service in the area) and proceed to the Scan & Pay using the QR codes at the site.
Cell phone signal and WiFi are not needed for Scan & Pay once you have the app downloaded .
The booking feerecreation.gov
Reservation fee, booked online$8
One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.
Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.
What a stay costs
One nightDerived$23
A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$38

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $15 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov
Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10
Cancellation fee$10
Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night
No-show$20 + your first night

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
Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Sep 10, 2026
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 15:38 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

62 sites

All 62 sites

Takes aUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 62 of the 62 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.

East01standard nonelectric$15
East02standard nonelectric45 ft$15
East03standard nonelectric25 ft$15
East04standard nonelectric20 ft$15
East05standard nonelectric18 ft$15
East06standard nonelectric22 ft$15
East07standard nonelectric25 ft$15
East08standard nonelectric18 ft$15
East09standard nonelectric$15
East10standard nonelectric22 ft$15
East11standard nonelectric28 ft$15
East12standard nonelectric18 ft$15
East13standard nonelectric22 ft$15
East14standard nonelectric40 ft$15
East15standard nonelectric35 ft$15
East16standard nonelectric25 ft$15
East17standard nonelectric25 ft$15
East18standard nonelectric25 ft$15
East19standard nonelectric28 ft$15
East20standard nonelectric18 ft$15
East21standard nonelectric30 ft$15
East22standard nonelectric36 ft$15
East23standard nonelectric32 ft$15
East24standard nonelectric35 ft$15
East25standard nonelectric24 ft$15
East26standard nonelectric36 ft$15
East27standard nonelectric45 ft$15
East28standard nonelectric$15
East29standard nonelectric$15
West30standard nonelectric$15
West31standard nonelectric$15
West32standard nonelectric$15
West33standard nonelectric$15
West34standard nonelectric$15
West35standard nonelectric$15
West36standard nonelectric$15
West37standard nonelectric$15
West38standard nonelectric$15
West39standard nonelectric$15
West40standard nonelectric$15
West41standard nonelectric$15
West42standard nonelectric$15
West43standard nonelectric$15
West44standard nonelectric$15
West45standard nonelectric$15
West46standard nonelectric$15
West47standard nonelectric$15
West48standard nonelectric$15
West49standard nonelectric30 ft$15
West50standard nonelectric$15
West51standard nonelectric$15
West52standard nonelectric$15
West53standard nonelectric$15
West54standard nonelectric$15
West55standard nonelectric$15
West56standard nonelectric$15
West57standard nonelectric$15
West58standard nonelectric$15
West59standard nonelectric$15
West60standard nonelectric$15
West61standard nonelectric$15
West62standard nonelectric$15
Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Sep 11, 2026

25 of 62 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Coordinate35.86139, -106.62672
The phone575-829-3535
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

This Afternoon55°Sunny
Tonight26°Mostly Clear
Saturday59°Sunny
Saturday Night33°Partly Cloudy5% rain

NWS forecast for La Cueva, NM

Source: National Weather Service, ABQ forecast office · Oct 16, 2026

Typical weather

Typical May night 32°F, day 62°F.

Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 32°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

80°32°0°

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.

Measured at: LOS ALAMOS 13 W, NM (USW00003062), 6 miles away and 596 ft higher
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

Watch
Roadless
Virgin Canyon6,068 acres · 10 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 9, 2026

Who answers for this land

Teresa Leger Fernandez, official portrait

Redondo 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 →

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Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: Today falls inside the season the agency publishes, and it has posted nothing else. That reading is ours. The U.S. Forest Service’s own database, though, flags it not open with no reason or date; the flag is named under How we know all this.
Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 16, 2026
Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026 and November 2026. It names 62 of the 62 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 14, 2026
Season: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.14 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 164 rated federal campgrounds in New Mexico · Sep 8, 2026
Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own fee notes, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise. · Sep 8, 2026

“…please download the REC.GOV app prior to arriving (limited cell service in the area) and proceed to the Scan & Pay using the QR codes…”

Nearest place of any size: La Cueva, NM, 0.7 mi ESE (a census designated place). Straight line.
Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026