Sleepy Grass
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:46 UTC
- A night
- $30–$47When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 24In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
Sleepy Grass offers a total of 20 sites. Located just south of the Village of Cloudcroft, this campground offers many sites for RVs up to 30 feet, tents and campers. Contact Info Between 05/15/2026 and 09/06/2026 this location is staffed. Please call (575) 682-1518 to speak with local staff. From 09/07/2026 to 05/09/2027 this location is unstaffed. Please call (877) 444-6777 for general information.
What the agency tells you
Check in after 2pm, check out by noon.
Maximum RV length is 30 feet.
Please do not approach any wildlife.
Everything else this campground posts · 10
The stay limit at this campground is 14 days.
Extra Vehicles: Most sites can accommodate a maximum of 1 extra vehicle for an additional charge of $10.00 per night, which is paid at the campground if you did not pay for the Extra Vehicle Add On.
Don't Move Firewood: Please protect the Lincoln National Forest by preventing the spread of invasive species. Firewood can carry insects and diseases that can threaten the health of our forests. You can make a difference by obtaining and burning your firewood near your camping destination. For more information, please visit http://www.dontmovefirewood.org/
Fire Restrictions: Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed.
Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee. This fee is retained by the reservation service contractor along with the non-refundable reservation fee. All requests for the return of the non-refundable reservation fee and the cancellation fee will be declined by the campground concessionaire as they did not receive these fees (these are the fees retained by the reservation contractor, a different entity).
For more information about the Lincoln National Forest, please visit Home | Lincoln National Forest | Forest Service
Pets must be on a 6' leash.
Cancellations must be made 48 hours prior to the start of your reservation.
Limited cell service is available at this location.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 24
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 82 ft
- Paved pads
- 20 of 24
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Around the campground
- Night sky · 132nd darkest of 164 in NM
- Bortle 3
Nothing to book until it reopensread 15:46 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
“Extra Vehicles: Most sites can accommodate a maximum of 1 extra vehicle for an additional charge of $10.00 per night, which is paid at the campground if you did not pay for the Extra Vehicle Add On.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
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
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Sleepy Grass closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 1
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Skyline CampgroundLincoln National Forest · 33 mi
recreation.gov availability, read 15:46 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
25 records · the site map
All 25 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. 20 of the 25 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | 02 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | $30–$47 | |
| A | 03 | standard nonelectric | $30–$47 | ||
| A | 04 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | $30–$47 | |
| A | 05 | standard nonelectric | 66 ft | $30–$47 | |
| A | 06 | standard nonelectric | 82 ft | $30–$47 | |
| A | 07 | standard nonelectric | $30–$47 | ||
| B | 08 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | $30–$47 | |
| B | 09 | standard nonelectric | $30–$47 | ||
| B | 10 | standard nonelectric | $30–$47 | ||
| B | 11 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | $30–$47 | |
| B | 12 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | $30–$47 | |
| B | 13 | standard nonelectric | $30–$47 | ||
| B | 14 | standard nonelectric | $30–$47 | ||
| C | 15 | standard nonelectric | $30–$47 | ||
| C | 16 | standard nonelectric | $30–$47 | ||
| C | 17 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | $30–$47 | |
| C | 18 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | $30–$47 | |
| C | 19 | standard nonelectric | $30–$47 | ||
| C | 20 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | $30–$47 | |
| C | 21 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | $30–$47 | |
| Entry | 01 HOST | host pad | $30–$47 | ||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 2 | type not stated | |||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 3 | type not stated | |||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 4 | type not stated | |||
| Scan and Pay | Standard | type not stated | 3,194 ft |
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.
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Deerhead CampgroundLincoln National Forest · 0.4 miSleepy Grass CampgroundLincoln National Forest · 0.7 miSlide Group CampgroundLincoln National Forest · 0.9 mi
Upper Fir Group Area1.2 mi
Black Bear Group Area1.5 miLocated off NM 130, 1.4 miles south of the village. Turn left onto FR24B which is just across the road from the Deerhead Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cloudcroft, NM
Typical weather
Typical October night 34°F, day 60°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 19°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 Junes are colder than the June 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
Sleepy Grass 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: A. See every public-lands vote →