Agency-listedBLM · dispersedFree
Cebolla Wilderness Area
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · NM · 34.72613, -107.89601
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management lists this site. On most of their ground you can camp away from developed sites pretty much anywhere — so treat this as a known-good spot, not the only one allowed. The unit sets stay limits and how far off road and water you must be. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Cebolla Wilderness Area
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 7,289 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Cebolla Wilderness AreaNIFC · AirNow
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Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Cebolla Wilderness Area · Bureau of Land Management · NM
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel26 mi
- GGrocery26 mi
- @Mail27 mi
- EVEV fast charger28 mi
- RxPharmacy28 mi
- MMechanic29 mi
- WWater30 mi
- HHardware30 mi
- +Urgent care30 mi
- LLaundry32 mi
- ShShower41 mi
- DDump42 mi
- PPropane43 mi
- AAir-up58 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 30-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 26 mi out.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Cebolla Wilderness Area
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
7,289 ft
Ground slope
1.8% · flat
State
NM
Coordinates
34.72613, -107.89601
Cost
Free · no fee, per the land manager's own page (blm.gov, read 2026-09-19)
Nearby & resupply — around Cebolla Wilderness Area · Bureau of Land Management · NM (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureCebolla Creek · ~0.2 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Nearest townHughes Place · ~7.3 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~25.9 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesSkyway Travel Center · ~25.9 mi
- Hospital / clinicAcoma-Canoncito-Laguna Service Unit · ~30.0 mi
EV charging — from Cebolla Wilderness Area · Bureau of Land Management · NM — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger27.9 mi straight-line N — Walmart 2652 (Grants, NM) · Electrify America · CHAdeMO, CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 6 within 50 · 52 within 100 · 101 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)31.6 mi — Milan, NM - Tesla Supercharger, Milan
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)33.9 mi — PARKING L-EAST PARKING L-EAST, Paraje, NM · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 123052 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Cebolla Wilderness Area · Bureau of Land Management · NM — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletThe Narrows · ~7.7 mi N · BLM
- RestroomNarrows Picnic Area · ~7.8 mi N · NPS
- Vault / pit toiletThe Narrows Near Group Shelter · ~7.9 mi N · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletLa Ventana Arch Duplex Vault Toilet · ~10.1 mi N · BLM
Coming out here — Cebolla Wilderness Area · Bureau of Land Management · NM
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Cebolla Creek as an intermittent stream, ~0.2 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as intermittent — expect it dry for part of the year. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 1.8% — flat. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (1 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on it.
- Assume no services at all. Most dispersed camping in a national forest has none: no tap, no power, no dump, often no toilet. Everything you need, you bring.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
Open Cebolla Wilderness Area elsewhere
Other camps near Cebolla Wilderness Area
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Joe Skeen Malpais Campground~15.6 mi
- El Malpais National Conservation Area~17.6 mi
- Chain Of Craters Backcountry Byway~21.8 mi
The unit that manages Cebolla Wilderness Area
Cebolla Wilderness Area is in the Rio Puerco Field Office, Albuquerque District, Bureau of Land Management. Stay limits, permits, road closures and fire restrictions are set there, not at the campsite — check before you go. Its page maps every camp in it.
How we know this — Cebolla Wilderness Area
Fee note
No fee, per the BLM page, read 19 Sep 2026: "None. Facilities There is no drinking water or restrooms in the wilderness area. Lobo Canyon Trail: a narrow 1.5 mile out and back trail that leads to a series of petroglyphs and gorgeous rock features. Nearby Amenities" https://www.blm.gov/visit/cebolla-wilderness-area
Source
Bureau of Land Management recreation data
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
How it was placed
USFS/BLM authoritative: free & dispersed. Access not field-checked (assumed drive-up). | No fee 2026-09-19: "None. Facilities There is no drinking water or restrooms in the wilderness area. Lobo Canyon Trail: a narrow 1.5 mile out and back trail that leads to a series of petroglyphs and gorgeous rock features. Nearby Amenities" Source: https://www.blm.gov/visit/cebolla-wilderness-area (worker_W, statement verified on that page).
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Cebolla Wilderness Area
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Seasonal & winter access
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Cebolla Wilderness Area
Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Dumping grey & black →Getting unstuck →All field notes →