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Cox Canyon Arch Primitive Campsite
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · NM · 36.99622, -107.91046
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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 Cox Canyon Arch Primitive Campsite
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,207 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Cox Canyon Arch Primitive CampsiteNIFC · 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 Cox Canyon Arch Primitive Campsite · 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
- GGrocery2 mi
- FFuel2 mi
- MMechanic12 mi
- DDump13 mi
- EVEV fast charger13 mi
- RxPharmacy13 mi
- +Urgent care13 mi
- @Mail14 mi
- HHardware16 mi
- PPropane16 mi
- WWater18 mi
- OOutfitter19 mi
- LLaundry20 mi
- ShShower21 mi
- AAir-up45 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 2 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 — Cox Canyon Arch Primitive Campsite
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
6,207 ft
Ground slope
8.6% · noticeable
State
NM
Coordinates
36.99622, -107.91046
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Cox Canyon Arch Primitive Campsite · Bureau of Land Management · NM (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureCox Canyon Wash (river) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- USGS NHDno named surface water within 1 mi
- Nearest townRiverside · ~2.2 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelSpeedway · ~2.2 mi
- Propane / LPGPropane · ~22.5 mi
- Dump station~12.9 mi
- GroceriesSpeedway · ~2.1 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~19.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicMercy Regional Medical Center · ~17.2 mi
- HardwareBloomfield Oil & Gas Supply · ~20.1 mi
EV charging — from Cox Canyon Arch Primitive Campsite · Bureau of Land Management · NM — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger12.9 mi straight-line S — HI Country Chevrolet, Aztec, NM · EV Connect · CCS · 2 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach12 within 25 mi · 15 within 50 · 34 within 100 · 151 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)16.9 mi — Durango, CO, Durango
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO19.1 mi — CITY OF DURANGO TC-DCFC-2, Durango
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)12.8 mi — CITY HALL #1 EV STATION 01, Aztec, 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 389668 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Cox Canyon Arch Primitive Campsite · Bureau of Land Management · NM — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletAlien Run Vault Toilet · ~8.1 mi S · BLM
- RestroomAztec Ruins Visitor Center LA-45E · ~12.2 mi SW · NPS
- RestroomLake Nighthorse Recreation Management Area-Block Restroom Building · ~16.1 mi N · BoR
- RestroomLake Nighthorse Recreation Management Area-Block Restroom Building · ~16.3 mi N · BoR
Coming out here — Cox Canyon Arch Primitive Campsite · Bureau of Land Management · NM
- Surface water mapped nearby: Cox Canyon Wash (river). That is wash water at best, and nobody has checked it for you — a creek can be dry and a tank can be mud. Filter or boil anything you drink. USGS maps no named surface water within 1 mi of the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022).
- Ground slope around the pin: about 8.6% — noticeable. 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.
- 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 Cox Canyon Arch Primitive Campsite elsewhere
Other camps near Cox Canyon Arch Primitive Campsite
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Simon Canyon Area Of Critical Environmental Concern~18.3 mi
- Glade Run Recreation Area~19.2 mi
- Brown Springs Campground~19.9 mi
- Junction Creek Campground~23.7 mi
The unit that manages Cox Canyon Arch Primitive Campsite
Cox Canyon Arch Primitive Campsite is in the Farmington Field Office, Farmington 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 — Cox Canyon Arch Primitive Campsite
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
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
auto: drive (road/trail right there)
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 Cox Canyon Arch Primitive Campsite
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 — Cox Canyon Arch Primitive Campsite
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Fire rules & restrictions →Gear & rig loadout →All field notes →