Elephant Rock

A nice campground along the Red River amongst spruce-fir forest.

Campground data:

Controlling agency:	Carson National Forest; Questa Ranger District; campground web site
Location in the state:	North-central; Carson National Forest
Waypoint(s):	ELFANTRKCG
Elevation:	8532ft; 2600m
Number of campsites:	21. The forest service claims 22 sites are here.
When we visited it:	2004-07-15.
Cleanliness:	9/10
Fee:	$10.00.
Water:	Yes.
Garbage cans:	Yes. A dumpster is at the entrance.
Fire pits:	Yes. Fire pits have cooking grates.
Cooking grills:	No.
Toilets:	Portajohn.
Showers:	No.
Handicapped accessible:	Yes. Sites 17 and 19 are reserved for handicapped.
RV info:	No electrical hookups. No water hookups. No sewer hookups. Parking is on asphalt.
When to camp:	May--Sep.

Maps:

USGS 1:24000 Red River
USGS 1:100000 Wheeler Peak
USGS 1:250000 Raton
Carson National Forest Map

Getting to the campground:

From the stoplight in Questa where NM 522 and NM 38 meet, head east on NM 38, toward Red River. After several miles, you should see the campground.

The campground:

The sites are nicely developed, as you can see here.

In spite of how it may appear here, they did not place the tables in a lake. It had just finished pouring and hailing when I took this photo.

Plants we saw in the campground:

Spruce (Pinaceae Picea)
Ponderosa pine (Pinaceae Pinus ponderosa)
Douglas fir (Pinaceae Pseudotsuga menziesii)
Aspen or Quaking Aspen (Salicaceae Populus tremuloides)

Reader comments about this campground:

On Thu Aug 16 11:28:21 2007 Sam & Denise from Tulsa, OK said:
We found this campground after we set up in Carson Canyon Campground. Actually, we toured all the campgrounds just to see where we wanted to stay the next time we are up in Red River. This campground has some excellent looking tent sights and I wouldn't hesitate to stay here. It was very clean and in a beautiful setting.

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