Tetilla Peak
1Heads up1 fire 22 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15–$20Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 45All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Tetilla Peak Recreation Area is located in Sandoval County, New Mexico, within the boundaries of the Pueblo de Cochiti Indian Reservation. The lake offers two public recreation areas: Cochiti on the west side of the lake and Tetilla Peak on the east side. Both sides offer spectacular scenic views of the water and surrounding mountains. The Cochiti Dam is one of the ten largest earth-fill dams in the United States, and also one of the largest in the world. The lake derives its name from the Indian Pueblo on the Cochiti Reservation. Keep reading
Recreation
Our quiet no-wake lake is an ideal for all paddle and wind craft. The lake is also a popular fishing spot for species such as bass, crappie, walleye, catfish, sunfish, and pike. Santa Cruz Day Use area is open daily and provides visitors with acces to the lake as well as several shade structures, bathrooms, and a fishing dock.
Facilities
The campground consists of two loops. Cholla Loop includes 36 individual campsites, each with an electric hookup, table and grill. All electric campsites have shelters, and water spigots are located throughout the campground. This loop also provides a dump station and large restroom and shower building . A partially paved road winds through Coyote Loop, which has 10 sites, each with a table and grill. There are no electric hookups, and water spigots are scattered throughout the loop. The restroom and shower building is centrally located for easy access. The Tetilla boat ramp area offers a parking area and courtesy dock.
Natural Features
Cochiti Lake sits at 5,343ft in elevation and is nestled in the foothills of the Jemez Mountains. Our high desert environment is dominated by juniper, piñon trees, and mixed grasslands. There are many opportunities for wildlife viewing. Four osprey nesting platforms have been erected around the lake to provide nesting sites, as well as viewing opportunities. On the east side of the lake, deer, coyote, river otters, rabbits, beavers, and bear are often sighted.
Nearby Attractions
Cochiti Lake is 23 miles from Tent Rocks National Monument, which has fascinating geological formations.
What the agency tells you
No Alcohol is Allowed
Check-in Time is 3:00pm. Check-out Time is 2:00pm
All camping units or vehicles must be registered
Everything else this campground posts · 8
The campground does not meet accessibility standards
A campground attendant may not be available. Please contact a Park Ranger @ 505-465-0307 for assistance.
This is a no-wake lake
No cutting of trees, dead or alive, is allowed
Ground fires are not permitted
Off-road vehicles are not permitted
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.
ALCOHOL IS NOT PERMITTED
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 45
- Hookups
- 35 electric, 25 water
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Accessible sites
- 11
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Not allowed
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “This loop also provides a dump station and large restroom and shower building .”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…electric campsites have shelters, and water spigots are located throughout the campground. This loop…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Night sky · 147th darkest of 164 in NM
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 5 days ago, 20 km away
- Patchy color
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 · 13
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
45 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 44 mapped sitesAll 45 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 44 of the 45 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. 45 of the 45 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| CHOL | 1 | standard electric | 32 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 96 ft | 1,286 ft | 293 ft | $20 | |
| CHOL | 10 | standard electric | 40 ft | 20/30 amp | 60 ft | 1,040 ft | 73 ft | $20 | |
| CHOL | 11 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30/20 amp | yes | 73 ft | 1,032 ft | 154 ft | $20 |
| CHOL | 13 | standard electric | 40 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 82 ft | 973 ft | 346 ft | $20 | |
| CHOL | 14 | standard electric | 50 ft | 20/30 amp | 70 ft | 1,030 ft | 220 ft | $20 | |
| CHOL | 15 | standard electric | 50 ft | 20/30 amp | 71 ft | 1,037 ft | 369 ft | $20 | |
| CHOL | 16 | standard electric | 40 ft | 20/30/50 amp | yes | 71 ft | 1,105 ft | 378 ft | $20 |
| CHOL | 17 | standard electric | 40 ft | 20/30 amp | yes | 70 ft | 1,073 ft | 246 ft | $20 |
| CHOL | 19 | standard electric | 24 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 114 ft | 1,253 ft | 287 ft | $20 | |
| CHOL | 2 | standard electric | 40 ft | 30/20 amp | 83 ft | 1,264 ft | 206 ft | $20 | |
| CHOL | 20 | standard electric | 40 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 75 ft | 1,148 ft | 226 ft | $20 | |
| CHOL | 22 | standard electric | 34 ft | 20/30 amp | yes | 130 ft | 1,198 ft | 134 ft | $20 |
| CHOL | 23 | standard electric | 40 ft | 20/30 amp | yes | 140 ft | 1,370 ft | 296 ft | $20 |
| CHOL | 24 | standard electric | 50 ft | 20/30/50 amp | yes | 44 ft | 1,042 ft | 234 ft | $20 |
| CHOL | 25 | standard electric | 24 ft | 20/30/50 amp | yes | 97 ft | 1,054 ft | 369 ft | $20 |
| CHOL | 26 | standard electric | 40 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 81 ft | 980 ft | 306 ft | $20 | |
| CHOL | 27 | standard electric | 50 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 97 ft | 965 ft | 424 ft | $20 | |
| CHOL | 28 | standard electric | 24 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 100 ft | 865 ft | 472 ft | $20 | |
| CHOL | 29 | standard electric | 38 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 80 ft | 896 ft | 375 ft | $20 | |
| CHOL | 3 | standard electric | 36 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 107 ft | 1,169 ft | 255 ft | $20 | |
| CHOL | 30 | standard electric | 28 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 93 ft | 770 ft | 463 ft | $20 | |
| CHOL | 31 | standard electric | 40 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 80 ft | 841 ft | 370 ft | $20 | |
| CHOL | 33 | standard electric | 36 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 92 ft | 833 ft | 318 ft | $20 | |
| CHOL | 34 | standard electric | 34 ft | 20/30/50 amp | yes | 80 ft | 727 ft | 401 ft | $20 |
| CHOL | 35 | standard electric | 36 ft | 20/30/50 amp | yes | 76 ft | 716 ft | 388 ft | $20 |
| CHOL | 36 | standard electric | 28 ft | 20/30/50 amp | yes | 80 ft | 801 ft | 322 ft | $20 |
| CHOL | 37 | standard electric | 20/30/50 amp | 76 ft | 738 ft | 367 ft | $20 | ||
| CHOL | 38 | standard electric | 20/30/50 amp | 83 ft | 810 ft | 309 ft | $20 | ||
| CHOL | 39 | standard electric | 20/30/50 amp | 83 ft | 827 ft | 276 ft | $20 | ||
| CHOL | 4 | standard electric | 50 ft | 20/30 amp | 75 ft | 1,181 ft | 157 ft | $20 | |
| CHOL | 5 | standard electric | 32 ft | 20/30 amp | 44 ft | 1,029 ft | 201 ft | $20 | |
| CHOL | 6 | standard electric | 40 ft | 20/30 amp | 75 ft | 1,114 ft | 113 ft | $20 | |
| CHOL | 7 | standard electric | 46 ft | 20/30 amp | yes | 116 ft | 957 ft | 174 ft | $20 |
| CHOL | 8 | standard electric | 36 ft | 20/30 amp | 60 ft | 1,048 ft | 59 ft | $20 | |
| CHOL | 9 | standard electric | 34 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 83 ft | 891 ft | 214 ft | $20 | |
| COYO | 040 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 1,734 ft | 772 ft | $15 | |||
| COYO | 042 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 1,713 ft | 768 ft | $15 | |||
| COYO | 043 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 1,673 ft | 755 ft | $15 | |||
| COYO | 044 | standard nonelectric | 107 ft | 1,628 ft | 816 ft | $15 | |||
| COYO | 045 | standard nonelectric | 110 ft | 1,634 ft | 914 ft | $15 | |||
| COYO | 046 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 1,797 ft | 1,019 ft | $15 | |||
| COYO | 047 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 76 ft | 1,814 ft | 967 ft | $15 | ||
| COYO | 048 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 76 ft | 1,828 ft | 919 ft | $15 | ||
| COYO | 050 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | $15 | |||||
| COYO | 051 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 255 ft | 1,834 ft | 742 ft | $15 |
25 of 45 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Cochiti Campground1.2 mi
Juniper Campground (NM)Bandelier National Monument · 10 mi
Ponderosa Group Campground (NM)Bandelier National Monument · 13 mi
PalizaSanta Fe National Forest · 19 miPaliza Family CampgroundSanta Fe National Forest · 19 mi
Paliza Group CampgroundSanta Fe National Forest · 19 miFrom Albuquerque, New Mexico, take I-25 north to exit 264. Travel west on State Road 16 to the Tetilla Peak Recreation Area/La Bajada Village turnoff and follow the paved road into the recreation area.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cochiti Lake, NM
Typical weather
Typical October night 40°F, day 74°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 20°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Tetilla Peak 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 →