Lake Alice

Lake Alice campground in Sugarite Canyon State Park is open year-round, and conveniently located near the road. You can reserve many of the campsites here over the web or via phone. However, for a nicer campground, check out the nearby Soda Pocket campground.

Campground data:

Controlling agency:	New Mexico State Parks; campground web site
Location in the state:	Northeast; Sugarite Canyon State Park
Waypoint(s):	LAKEALICCG
Elevation:	7143ft; 2177m
Number of campsites:	16
When we visited it:	2004-09-03.
Cleanliness:	9/10
Fee:	$10.00. $14.00/night for electricity, $18.00/night for electricity and sewer.
Water:	Yes.
Garbage cans:	Yes.
Fire pits:	Yes. Not all sites have fire pits.
Cooking grills:	No. Cooking grills are at the sites without fire pits.
Toilets:	Vault.
Showers:	Yes. Showers are available across from the visitor center from 7am to 8pm.
Handicapped accessible:	Yes.
RV info:	Electrical hookups. Water hookups. Sewer hookups. About half of the campsites have some kind of RV hookup. A dump station is available.
When to camp:	Jan--Dec. On Labor Day weekend 2004, most of the sites were reserved more than a week ahead of time.
General comments:	Sites 4-8 and 10-16 are reservation only. Make your reservations by calling 877-664-7787 or at ReserveWorld.com. The sites are fairly close together. They sell ice at the visitor center. The park contains two lakes, which appear to be popular for fishing.

Maps:

Online from topozone.com
Aerial photo from terraserver-usa.com
Topo map from terraserver-usa.com
USGS Topo Quad 1:24,000 Raton
USGS Topo Quad 1:100,000 Raton
USGS Topo Quad 1:250,000 Raton

Getting to the campground:

Take exit 452 from I-25 in Raton. Head east on NM 72 for 3.5 miles; this is the junction with NM 526. Take NM 526 (go straight) for 1.7 miles to the park visitor center.

From the visitor center, continue 1.3 miles to the Lake Alice Campground on your left with overflow camping on your right.

The campground:

	Here is one of the reservation tent sites.
One of the sites with hookups (site 10).
	Here you can see site 6, another with hookups.
Across the road are six sites for overflow camping. Oddly, on Labor Day 2004, people were camped here when there was still one open site at Soda Pocket Campground.

Reader comments about this campground:

On Wed Sep 19 11:29:04 2007 Brink Wetzler from Denver, CO said:
Lake Alice is incredible. The sites are huge, the lake is beautiful, and there is no sign of bears. I'll be back every summer.

On Wed Sep 19 12:05:03 2007 The Webmaster from Albuquerque, NM (but typing this in Denver!) said:
I think that the above comment is refering to the Soda Pocket campground, as I found the campsites in Lake Alice to be small and close together, especially in comparison with the ones in the Soda Pocket campground (up the hill from Lake Alice).

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