Riana - Abiquiu Lake
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 19 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15–$20Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 6859 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Riana Campground is located on a 150 ft. bluff overlooking the scenic Abiquiu Lake in northern New Mexico, just one hour northwest of charming Santa Fe. The lake sits at an elevation of 6,400 feet on the Rio Chama, a tributary of the legendary Rio Grande. Keep reading
Recreation
Abiquiu Lake offers many opportunities for outdoor recreation. The fishing here is some of the finest in northern New Mexico. Visitors enjoy boating, water skiing, and hiking. Lake shore access for boat launching is 1 mile from the campground.
Facilities
Riana Campground hosts 52 campsites, 13 of which have electric and water hookups. Flush toilets, showers, and drinking water are provided, as are picnic shelters, grills, lantern posts, and tent pads. A playground and dump station are located on-site.
Natural Features
Fragrant Pinion pine, juniper, and sage cover the campsite, providing a distinct smell of northern New Mexico, but offering limited shade. Colorful rock formations surround the park. Visitors are awarded a panoramic view of the narrow mesa, Cerro Pedernal, locally known as "Pedernal." Famous American painter, Georgia O'Keefe, had her ashes scattered over its top. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (505) 685-4561.
Nearby Attractions
Northern New Mexico is full of beauty and history. The educational and historical Ghost Ranch is about 10 minutes from the park. The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, San Pedro Wilderness, Cumbres Toltec Railroad, Chaco Canyon, and Bandelier National Monument are all nearby. The ski-town of Taos is just over an hour away, and colorful Santa Fe is an hour southeast, both with restaurants, shops, and museums.
What the agency tells you
Riana Campground and Abiquiu Lake are both alcohol-free
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Riana Campground entrance gates close at 10 p.m.; all guests and visitors must arrive before this time
Everything else this campground posts · 2
During the open season, there is an attendant available at (505) 685-4561
Unless otherwise listed, campsites are limited to two camping units (Tent, RV, Trailer, etc.) per site, and 8 people. More than 2 motorized vehicles, or 4 motorcycles, may incur an extra vehicle fee.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 68 · 15 walk-in, 3 group, 3 cabin
- Hookups
- 16 electric, 17 water
- Longest rig
- 80 ft
- Paved pads
- 17 of 68
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets · Vault Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 1 of 70 campsite records / VAULT TOILETS on 5 of 70 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 3 of 70 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 64th darkest of 164 in NM
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 59 of the 68 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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 · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $15–$20 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
70 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 54 mapped sitesAll 70 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 54 of the 70 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. 54 of the 70 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| CHAM | 016 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 74 ft | 571 ft | 404 ft | $15 | ||
| CHAM | 017 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 61 ft | 482 ft | 446 ft | $15 | ||
| CHAM | 018 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 80 ft | 414 ft | 488 ft | $15 | ||
| CHAM | 019 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 81 ft | 334 ft | 559 ft | $15 | ||
| CHAM | 020 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 129 ft | 268 ft | 671 ft | $15 | ||
| CHAM | 021 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 60 ft | 419 ft | 650 ft | $15 | ||
| CHAM | 022 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 58 ft | 479 ft | 616 ft | $15 | ||
| CHAM | 023 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 71 ft | 433 ft | 690 ft | $15 | ||
| CHAM | 024 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 58 ft | 536 ft | 577 ft | $15 | ||
| CHAM | 025 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 69 ft | 465 ft | 572 ft | $15 | ||
| CHAM | 026 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 67 ft | 385 ft | 602 ft | $15 | ||
| CHAM | 027 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 69 ft | 518 ft | 503 ft | $15 | ||
| CHAM | 028 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 49 ft | 416 ft | 542 ft | $15 | ||
| CHAM | 029 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 49 ft | 462 ft | 495 ft | $15 | ||
| CHAM | 030 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 72 ft | 588 ft | 445 ft | $15 | ||
| Overflow | OF1 | type not stated | 44 ft | ||||||
| Overflow | OF10 | type not stated | 18 ft | ||||||
| Overflow | OF11 | type not stated | 40 ft | ||||||
| Overflow | OF2 | type not stated | 22 ft | ||||||
| Overflow | OF3 | type not stated | 20 ft | ||||||
| Overflow | OF4 | type not stated | 23 ft | ||||||
| Overflow | OF5 | type not stated | 42 ft | ||||||
| Overflow | OF6 | type not stated | 18 ft | ||||||
| Overflow | OF7 | type not stated | 19 ft | ||||||
| Overflow | OF8 | type not stated | 19 ft | ||||||
| Overflow | OF9 | type not stated | 21 ft | ||||||
| PEDE | 001 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 153 ft | 631 ft | 826 ft | $20 | |
| PEDE | 002 | standard electric | 73 ft | 50 amp | 99 ft | 784 ft | 786 ft | $20 | |
| PEDE | 003 | standard electric | 71 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 878 ft | 807 ft | $20 | |
| PEDE | 004 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | 128 ft | 849 ft | 937 ft | $20 | |
| PEDE | 005 | standard electric | 48 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 936 ft | 847 ft | $20 | |
| PEDE | 007 | standard electric | 33 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 994 ft | 902 ft | $20 | |
| PEDE | 009 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 98 ft | 1,343 ft | 694 ft | $20 | |
| PEDE | 010 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 98 ft | 1,272 ft | 596 ft | $20 | |
| PEDE | 011 | standard electric | 74 ft | 50 amp | 69 ft | 1,160 ft | 572 ft | $20 | |
| PEDE | 012 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 42 ft | 1,091 ft | 541 ft | $20 | |
| PEDE | 013 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 42 ft | 1,050 ft | 531 ft | $20 | |
| PEDE | 014 | standard electric | 70 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 969 ft | 521 ft | $20 | |
| PEDE | 015 | standard electric | 80 ft | 50 amp | 59 ft | 919 ft | 547 ft | $20 | |
| PEDE | A1 | standard electric | 33 ft | 50 amp | yes | 198 ft | 1,266 ft | 1,015 ft | $20 |
| PEDE | A2 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | yes | 198 ft | 1,430 ft | 997 ft | $20 |
| PUER | 031 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 109 ft | 651 ft | 374 ft | $15 | ||
| PUER | 032 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 70 ft | 772 ft | 329 ft | $15 | ||
| PUER | 033 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 109 ft | 652 ft | 455 ft | $15 | ||
| PUER | 034 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 73 ft | 560 ft | 590 ft | $15 | ||
| PUER | 035 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 65 ft | 520 ft | 722 ft | $15 | ||
| PUER | 036 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 65 ft | 581 ft | 673 ft | $15 | ||
| PUER | 037 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 73 ft | 617 ft | 589 ft | $15 | ||
| PUER | 038 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 94 ft | 707 ft | 517 ft | $15 | ||
| PUER | 039 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 70 ft | 780 ft | 389 ft | $15 | ||
| TLOO | 040 | walk to | 47 ft | 904 ft | 228 ft | $10 | |||
| TLOO | 041 | walk to | 61 ft | 873 ft | 328 ft | $10 | |||
| TLOO | 042 | walk to | 63 ft | 960 ft | 308 ft | $10 | |||
| TLOO | 043 | walk to | 61 ft | 925 ft | 358 ft | $10 | |||
| TLOO | 044 | walk to | 68 ft | 962 ft | 420 ft | $10 | |||
| TLOO | 045 | walk to | 54 ft | 1,057 ft | 417 ft | $10 | |||
| TLOO | 046 | walk to | 43 ft | 999 ft | 368 ft | $10 | |||
| TLOO | 047 | walk to | 54 ft | 1,102 ft | 408 ft | $10 | |||
| TLOO | 048 | walk to | 43 ft | 1,035 ft | 355 ft | $10 | |||
| TLOO | 049 | walk to | 71 ft | 1,149 ft | 385 ft | $10 | |||
| TLOO | 050 | walk to | 48 ft | 1,071 ft | 339 ft | $10 | |||
| TLOO | 051 | walk to | 75 ft | 1,076 ft | 276 ft | $10 | |||
| TLOO | 052 | walk to | 60 ft | 1,017 ft | 294 ft | $10 | |||
| TLOO | 053 | walk to | 61 ft | 1,008 ft | 215 ft | $10 | |||
| TLOO | 054 | walk to | 47 ft | 950 ft | 219 ft | $10 | |||
| Group Shelter 1 | group shelter electric | 60 ft | 20 amp | Flush Toilets +1 listed | |||||
| Group Shelter 2 | group shelter nonelectric | 60 ft | Vault Toilets listed | ||||||
| Group Shelter 3 | day use | Vault Toilets listed | |||||||
| Group Shelter 4 | day use | Vault Toilets listed | |||||||
| Group Shelter 5 | group shelter nonelectric | 60 ft | Vault Toilets listed |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 70 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
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The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cañones, NM
Typical weather
Typical October night 37°F, day 67°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 18°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
Riana - Abiquiu Lake 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 →