U.S. Forest Service · Santa Fe National Forest · NM

Resumidero Camping Area

1Heads up1 fire 21 mi away
Wildfire
McCauley Springs fire · 21 mi away · 712 acres · 100% contained · updated Oct 6, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.

This is how it should work.

Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
FreeNo camping fee
Drawn from the record · 8,940 ft · 0% tree cover · Rito Resumidero within reach · Bortle 2 sky
8,940 ftElevation
232 ftWater · Rito Resumidero, a stream
27.4 miNW of Los Alamos, NM
0%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 57th darkest of 164 in NM

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Resumidero is a popular primitive camping area. Located in a large alpine meadow, Resumidero is a local favorite and used by numerous recreationists for camping, picnicking, and group gatherings. Uses: Picnicking, camping, and parking for access to San Pedro Parks Wilderness through Vega Redonda trail 43 and Corralitos Trail 452 (on the west side of the meadow). Facilities: portable toilets during summer months only, picnic tables, fire rings. Special Instructions: The existing "acequia" (irrigation ditch) is utilized by residents for irrigation of farmland. PLEASE DO NOT POLLUTE THE WATER IN THE CANAL. Users must pack out their trash.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Portable Toilets
“…west side of the meadow). Facilities: portable toilets during summer months only, picnic tables, fire…”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Meadow
Source: Stated in the agency description

Nothing to book, just show up

One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and it costs nothing at all. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.

recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.

BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe record
A nightFreeNo camping feethe agency’s fee record
A weekendNothingDerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
Camping feeFree
No Fee
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
A night, and a whole weekendDerivedNothing

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s own record says there’s no camping fee, and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.

How we know this receipt · 5
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

This Afternoon56°Sunny
Tonight36°Partly Cloudy
Sunday56°Mostly Sunny1% rain
Sunday Night38°Mostly Cloudy then Slight Chance Rain Showers15% rain

NWS forecast for Gallina, NM

Typical weather

Typical October night 27°F, day 59°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 9°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°32°0°

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.

Measured at: WOLF CANYON, NM (USC00299820), 12 miles away and 720 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless
San Pedro Parks5,824 acres · 9 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Mesa Alta1,868 acres · 9 mi · inventoried roadless area

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

Who answers for this land

Teresa Leger Fernandez, official portrait

Resumidero Camping Area 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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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, 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.
Nearest place of any size: Gallina, NM, 7.3 mi SSE (a census designated place). Straight line.