FS · Santa Fe National Forest

Panchuela

No lengths published for any site here

Longest for your rig: —
Booking: Reservable
Hookups: none
Entry: Back-in only
ADA sites: —
Elevation: 8,347 ft
Vehicles: 1 per site
Season: mid-May – mid-November

Typically open from mid-May to mid-November, Panchuela Campground serves as an ideal base camp for those looking to embark on day hikes into the surrounding wilderness, providing a perfect blend of comfort and adventure.quoted from the description Recreation.gov publishes for this facility

Every site here is listed for one vehicle. Agencies differ on whether a truck and the trailer it tows count as one or two, so this may not affect a fifth wheel — but it does decide whether a second car can come. Worth a call before you rely on it.

At 8,347 ft, expect nights below freezing well into June, water systems shut off outside a short summer window, and a long climb to get here. The season above is what the agency publishes; snow can move it.

Book on Recreation.gov →the official reservation system; we take no cut

Getting there

What the agency says about the road in. For a long rig this is often the binding constraint — a site that fits is no use behind four miles of shelf road — and none of it appears in the campsite data.

Narrow or single-lane roadPanchuela Road is a single lane road with pull-outs, please folow speed limit and watch out for horseback riders and pedestrians.quoted from the driving directions

Every bookable site

No site here takes a 30 ft rig. The layout, for what it is worth.

Tents only — no rig permitted here — 6 sites

Unit 1 Shelno rigs permitted · 40 ft wide Unit 2 Tentno rigs permitted · 40 ft wide Unit 3 Tentno rigs permitted · 40 ft wide Unit 4 Tentno rigs permitted · 40 ft wide Unit 5 Shelno rigs permitted · 40 ft wide Unit 6 Shelno rigs permitted · 40 ft wide

fits 30 ft (0) too short (6) not published (0)Click a site for what it publishes and a way to book it. Positions are the agency’s; roads, water and terrain are not shown, so this says where the sites are and not how you drive between them.

Within 60 miles

Map marker#	Campground	Distance	Sites	Longest for your rig	Hookups
1	Jacks Creek Group Area NM	1 mi NE	2	40 ft	none
2	Holy Ghost Group Area NM · group	4 mi SW	1	30 ft	none · pull-through
3	Black Canyon Campground (Santa Fe National Forest, NM) NM	10 mi W	36	61 ft	none · pull-through
4	Field Tract Campground NM	10 mi S	15	22 ft	none · pull-through
5	Santa Barbara Campground NM	18 mi N	21	65 ft	none · pull-through
6	Agua Piedra Campground NM	22 mi N	46	40 ft	none · pull-through

this campground numbered to match the tableClick a marker for what it is and how far. Straight-line distances, not driving distances; the inset shows where this sits in the state. For directions, open this location in OpenStreetMap.

Everything else on record

Bookable sites: 6
Max occupancy per site: 5
Reservable sites: 0
Coordinates: 35.8298, -105.6642
Phone: 505-757-6121
Elevation: 8,347 ft

Sources

Recreation Information Database (RIDB) · fetched from https://ridb.recreation.gov/api/v1/facilities/10077501 · retrieved 2026-08-17 · public-domain
USGS Elevation Point Query Service · fetched from https://epqs.nationalmap.gov/v1/json · retrieved 2026-08-17 · public-domain