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Aldo Leopold House

US Forest Service · New Mexico

Aldo Leopold House in New Mexico. Ringed marker is this site; the other dots are the 199 public campsites we map in New Mexico.

On February 2, 1912, Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) wrote to his fiancée, Estella Bergère, in Santa Fe that the Forest Service had appropriated $650 to build a new supervisor’s quarters he had designed at Tres Piedras, New Mexico, northwest of Taos. At the time, Leopold was about to become the new Forest Supervisor of the Carson National Forest in Tres Piedras. Later that year, he built the house, which the newly married couple decided to call “Mi Casita”.

What we know about it

Managed by
US Forest Service
Fee
Not published (the agency does not list one)
Booking
Reservation required
Dogs
Allowed on a leash (USFS policy)
Coordinates
36.65290, -105.96965

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Source: Recreation.gov, dated 2026-04-09, fetched 2026-09-07. Official listing.

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