Agency-listedBLM · dispersedFree
Glade Run Recreation Area
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · NM · 36.82952, -108.18860
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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 Glade Run Recreation Area
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,808 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Glade Run Recreation 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 Glade Run Recreation 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
- GGrocery5 mi
- HHardware5 mi
- +Urgent care5 mi
- @Mail5 mi
- EVEV fast charger5 mi
- FFuel5 mi
- OOutfitter5 mi
- MMechanic5 mi
- RxPharmacy6 mi
- LLaundry8 mi
- DDump11 mi
- WWater24 mi
- AAir-up27 mi
- PPropane33 mi
- ShShower35 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 24-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 5 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 — Glade Run Recreation Area
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
5,808 ft
Ground slope
4.6% · gentle
State
NM
Coordinates
36.82952, -108.18860
Cost
Free · no fee, per the land manager's own page (blm.gov, read 2026-09-19)
Nearby & resupply — around Glade Run Recreation Area · Bureau of Land Management · NM (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureSouth Twin Wash · ~0.1 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Nearest townFlora Vista · ~6.5 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelSpeedway · ~4.9 mi
- Propane / LPGPropane · ~10.8 mi
- Dump station~10.6 mi
- GroceriesWalmart Supercenter · ~4.7 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~5.7 mi
- Hospital / clinicPlanned Parenthood - Farmington · ~5.6 mi
- HardwareHarbor Freight · ~5.7 mi
EV charging — from Glade Run Recreation Area · Bureau of Land Management · NM — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger4.8 mi straight-line SE — Farmington, NM - East Main Street - Tesla Supercharger (at a grocery store) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. NACS partner enabled. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach7 within 25 mi · 13 within 50 · 37 within 100 · 139 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS5.1 mi — 3401 East 30th Street, Farmington
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO5.1 mi — 3401 East 30th Street, Farmington
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)5.2 mi — FEUS ANIM.VALL. MALL, Farmington, 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 440458 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Glade Run Recreation Area · Bureau of Land Management · NM — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletVault Toilet At Brown Springs Ohv Training Area · ~1.8 mi S · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletCalle Norte Double Vault Toilet · ~2.5 mi E · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletVault Toilet · ~9.2 mi S · BLM
- RestroomAztec Ruins Visitor Center LA-45E · ~10.4 mi E · NPS
Coming out here — Glade Run Recreation Area · Bureau of Land Management · NM
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps South Twin Wash as an intermittent stream, ~0.1 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 4.6% — gentle. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (10 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 Glade Run Recreation Area elsewhere
Other camps near Glade Run Recreation Area
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Brown Springs Campground~1.7 mi
- Cox Canyon Arch Primitive Campsite~19.2 mi
The unit that manages Glade Run Recreation Area
Glade Run Recreation Area 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 — Glade Run Recreation Area
Fee note
No fee, per the BLM page, read 19 Sep 2026: "None. Facilities Glade Run OHV Area There is a vault toilet but no potable water at this site. There is a large gravel parking area with that leads to the Calle Norte Bike Park Trailhead Several mountain bike maintenance…" https://www.blm.gov/visit/glade-run
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
BLM RIDB record, agency-listed. Its fee field is empty -- no fee statement -- so the cost is unpriced (field read 2026-09-19). Access not field-checked (assumed drive-up). | No fee 2026-09-19: "None. Facilities Glade Run OHV Area There is a vault toilet but no potable water at this site. There is a large gravel parking area with that leads to the Calle Norte Bike Park Trailhead Several mountain bike maintenance…" Source: https://www.blm.gov/visit/glade-run (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 Glade Run Recreation 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 — Glade Run Recreation Area
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Stay limits →Gear & rig loadout →All field notes →