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New Canyon Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · NM · 34.40316, -106.24735
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service 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.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — New Canyon Campground · U.S. Forest Service · NM
No MVUM road within 1 mi of the pin; access may be a county road or unmapped.
From the Forest Service's own Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW, Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026), straight-line from the pin to the nearest mapped segment. The nearest segment is not necessarily the way in, a maintenance level is the agency's class and not a report on today, and a road's season is the road's — it is not a campground order. What the levels mean → What an MVUM is →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at New Canyon Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 7,042 ft.
Fire & smoke — around New Canyon CampgroundNIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
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 New Canyon Campground · U.S. Forest Service · NM
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel8 mi
- GGrocery8 mi
- RxPharmacy8 mi
- HHardware8 mi
- MMechanic8 mi
- LLaundry8 mi
- @Mail8 mi
- WWater8 mi
- +Urgent care8 mi
- DDump15 mi
- AAir-up24 mi
- EVEV fast charger34 mi
- OOutfitter48 mi
- ShShower53 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 8 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 34-mi run (and back).
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 — New Canyon Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
7,042 ft
Ground slope
3.8% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~5.7 mi · main line
State
NM
Coordinates
34.40316, -106.24735
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around New Canyon Campground · U.S. Forest Service · NM (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureMedders Tanks · ~0.2 mi · USGS: intermittent lake or pond
- Nearest townDeer Canyon · ~3.6 mi
- Nearest rail line~5.7 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~8.2 mi
- FuelFuel · ~7.8 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesAlon · ~7.8 mi
- PharmacyMountainair Meds & More · ~8.1 mi
- HardwareGustin Hardware · ~8.1 mi
EV charging — from New Canyon Campground · U.S. Forest Service · NM — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger34.5 mi straight-line NW — Belen, NM Rechargery Relay - S Main St · IONNA · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 10 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 · 12 within 50 · 76 within 100 · 127 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO43.9 mi — SOCORRODCFAST DC FAST 2, Socorro
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)38.7 mi — CORONA NM VILLAGEOFCORONA · 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 423055 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around New Canyon Campground · U.S. Forest Service · NM — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomABO Visitor Center · ~7.9 mi NW · NPS
- RestroomGQ Visitor Center · ~13.3 mi SE · NPS
- RestroomQU Visitor Center · ~13.6 mi N · NPS
- Vault / pit toiletPine Shadow · ~15.6 mi NW · USFS
Coming out here — New Canyon Campground · U.S. Forest Service · NM
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Medders Tanks as an intermittent lake or pond, ~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 3.8% — 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 ~5.7 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. 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.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in 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 New Canyon Campground elsewhere
Other camps near New Canyon Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Red Canyon~17.2 mi · fee
- Red Canyon Campground, Upper~17.9 mi
- New Canyon~20.7 mi
- Capilla Peak~22.3 mi · fee
How we know this — New Canyon 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.
How it was placed
no road or trail found nearby — check manually
Nearest MVUM road
US Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW_MVUM_01, layer 1), Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026. Straight-line distance from the pin to the nearest mapped segment within 1 mi; surface type, maintenance level and open dates are the agency's own values for that segment, expanded from its codes and otherwise unedited. Nothing here says which road reaches the site.
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 New Canyon 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 — New Canyon Campground
What “dispersed” means here →Dumping grey & black →Fire rules & restrictions →Off-grid communication →All field notes →