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Joe Skeen Malpais Campground
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · NM · 34.94362, -107.82083
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management lists this as a developed campground. Expect marked sites, a fee station or a reservation, and the usual campground rules. The dispersed-camping freedom of the surrounding forest does not apply inside it. 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 Joe Skeen Malpais Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,925 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Joe Skeen Malpais CampgroundNIFC · 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 Joe Skeen Malpais Campground · 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
- FFuel10 mi
- GGrocery10 mi
- @Mail12 mi
- EVEV fast charger13 mi
- RxPharmacy13 mi
- MMechanic14 mi
- WWater15 mi
- HHardware15 mi
- +Urgent care17 mi
- LLaundry17 mi
- ShShower30 mi
- DDump30 mi
- AAir-up50 mi
- PPropane56 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 10 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 — Joe Skeen Malpais Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
6,925 ft
Ground slope
6.1% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~9.9 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~9.7 mi · Interstate 40
State
NM
Coordinates
34.94362, -107.82083
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Joe Skeen Malpais Campground · Bureau of Land Management · NM (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureStream · mapped within 1.6 mi
- USGS NHDno named surface water within 1 mi
- Nearest townAnzac Village · ~9.3 mi
- Nearest rail line~9.9 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~9.7 mi · Interstate 40
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~10.2 mi
- Propane / LPGFerrellgas · ~26.1 mi
- Dump station~29.7 mi
- GroceriesSkyway Travel Center · ~10.3 mi
- Hospital / clinicCibola General Hospital · ~15.1 mi
EV charging — from Joe Skeen Malpais Campground · Bureau of Land Management · NM — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger12.6 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 reach6 within 25 mi · 6 within 50 · 54 within 100 · 104 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)17.1 mi — Milan, NM - Tesla Supercharger, Milan
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)22.3 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 Joe Skeen Malpais Campground · Bureau of Land Management · NM — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletJoe Skeen Vault Toilet #1 · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletVault Toilet #2 · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletJoe Skeen Vault Toilet #2 · at this camp · BLM
- RestroomSandstone Bluffs Overlook · ~0.6 mi W · NPS
Coming out here — Joe Skeen Malpais Campground · Bureau of Land Management · NM
- Surface water mapped nearby: Stream. 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 6.1% — gentle. 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.
- Rail line mapped ~9.9 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. The atlas also records Amtrak service on it. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- Interstate 40 is mapped ~9.7 mi from the pin. Straight-line, from the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025) — the divided, limited-access highways, which is why a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not appear here.
- 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 Joe Skeen Malpais Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Joe Skeen Malpais Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- El Malpais National Conservation Area~2.0 mi
- Chain Of Craters Backcountry Byway~15.4 mi
- Cebolla Wilderness Area~15.6 mi
- Coal Mine Campground~21.2 mi · fee
The unit that manages Joe Skeen Malpais Campground
Joe Skeen Malpais Campground 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 — Joe Skeen Malpais Campground
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.
Agency page
nps.gov — the land manager's own page for this site. Fees, seasons and closures are stated there first; if it disagrees with this page, it wins.
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 Joe Skeen Malpais Campground
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 — Joe Skeen Malpais Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Fire rules & restrictions →Getting unstuck →All field notes →