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Juniper Family Campground
Drive-up · National Park Service · NM · 35.79534, -106.27905
Inside a national park unit
Juniper Family Campground sits inside Bandelier National Monument — a national monument run by the National Park Service.
Park rules apply, and they are stricter than dispersed camping: inside a National Park Service unit you camp in a designated campground or on a backcountry permit, not wherever you find a flat spot. Check the park before you go: nps.gov/band ↗
Placed by point-in-polygon against the National Park Service’s own boundary layer (NPS Land Resources Division, 442 units, fetched 18 Sep 2026; this unit’s polygon edited 2024-03-13). Nothing about the price or the legal status on this page was changed by it.
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Ask about this camp →National Park Service lists this site. Someone from the agency inventoried it, so it is a real camp — not a spot we guessed at. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
Can I go now? — Juniper Family Campground · National Park Service · NM
Open today The seasonal closure runs Nov 1 – Mar 1; not in effect today.
National Park Service record: “Camping Loop C (Coyote Loop) is closed seasonally on November 1 and reopens March 1.” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Juniper Family Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,676 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Juniper Family 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 Juniper Family Campground · National Park Service · NM
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- DDump0 mi
- WWater0 mi
- @Mail4 mi
- GGrocery4 mi
- RxPharmacy4 mi
- EVEV fast charger4 mi
- FFuel5 mi
- HHardware5 mi
- MMechanic5 mi
- +Urgent care5 mi
- LLaundry11 mi
- ShShower17 mi
- AAir-up19 mi
- OOutfitter20 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 4 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Propane. Plan those before you head up.
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 — Juniper Family Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
National Park Service
Elevation
6,676 ft
Ground slope
7.1% · gentle
State
NM
Coordinates
35.79534, -106.27905
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Juniper Family Campground · National Park Service · NM (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureRito de los Frijoles · ~0.6 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townWhite Rock · ~4.1 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterWater · ~0.1 mi
- FuelTewa · ~4.6 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump stationJuniper Campground Dump Station · ~0.0 mi
- GroceriesSmith's · ~4.4 mi
- PharmacySmith's Pharmacy · ~4.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicChildren's Clinic · ~4.6 mi
- HardwareMetzger's Do It Best Hardware Store · ~4.6 mi
EV charging — from Juniper Family Campground · National Park Service · NM — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger4.4 mi straight-line NE — LAC DPU WHITE ROCK, Los Alamos, NM · ChargePoint Network · CHAdeMO, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach27 within 25 mi · 48 within 50 · 95 within 100 · 147 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)18.3 mi — Santa Fe, NM - Cerrillos Road - Tesla Supercharger, Santa Fe
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)4.6 mi — White Rock Municipal Complex (at a parking lot) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2023-02-13 · 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 350413 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Juniper Family Campground · National Park Service · NM — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomB-65 Comfort Station Loop A · at this camp · NPS
- RestroomB-66 Comfort Station Loop B · at this camp · NPS
- RestroomB-67 Comfort Station Loop C · ~0.3 mi W · NPS
- RestroomB-49 Mesa Vault Toilet · ~0.3 mi SE · NPS
Coming out here — Juniper Family Campground · National Park Service · NM
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Rito de los Frijoles as a perennial stream, ~0.6 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 7.1% — 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.
- 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 Juniper Family Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Juniper Family Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Ponderosa Group Campground~5.1 mi · fee
- Diablo Canyon Recreation Area Camping and Parking~8.1 mi
- BLM public land~16.9 mi
- Jemez Falls Campground~18.4 mi · fee
Who holds the land at Juniper Family Campground
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Bandelier National Monument, manager on record: National Park Service (federal). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Quemazon at 9,500 ft, about 11 miles away. It sits about 2,824 ft higher than this camp, so treat it as a guide rather than a reading for this spot. We do not repeat a depth here, because any number we stored would be stale by the time you read it — the station publishes today's.
How we know this — Juniper Family Campground
Seasonal closure
Camping Loop C (Coyote Loop) is closed seasonally on November 1 and reopens March 1.
Source
public land records
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
Bandelier National Monument, on the mesa top just inside the main entrance off NM-4 -- the park's family campground, "intended for small groups of 10 individuals or less". FEE: "Individual campsites are $20/night with a 50% discount offered to Interagency Senior and Lifetime Access pass holders." SIZE: "With 53 individual sites and 2 group camp sites". WATER: "Water spigots with potable water are centrally located in each loop." SEASONAL CLOSURE: "Camping Loop C (Coyote Loop) is closed seasonally on November 1 and reopens March 1." STAY LIMIT: not stated on the park's campground page; not guessed here. RESERVATIONS: part of the campground is reservable through recreation.gov -- the park moved to a partial reservation system for Loops B and C, so check before relying on first-come. NEAREST TOWN: Los Alamos / White Rock, NM. Coordinate is the NPS Public POIs national dataset pin named "Juniper Campground" (mapservices.nps.gov, read 2026-08-17). SOURCE: https://www.nps.gov/band/planyourvisit/juniper-family-campground.htm | auto:agency-trust 2026-08-18: state agency GIS record with a source URL and coordinates, confidence not low. Fee value is the agency's own, not field-checked. Not field-verified -- confirm access, road conditions and fire rules before you go.
Season
Read from the agency's own season / closure text in this record (data/conditions.py) and checked against the calendar. The words we read are printed under the verdict at the top of the 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 Juniper Family 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
- 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