Fort Stanton Cave Campground

Bureau of Land Management · New Mexico

Fort Stanton Cave Campground in New Mexico. Ringed marker is this site; the other dots are the 199 public campsites we map in New Mexico.

Surrounding the Fort Stanton Cave Campground is the Fort Stanton Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area (NCA). At around 6300' elevation the NCA offers a diverse habitat of High Desert cedar/juniper hillsides with Ponderosa Pine stringers and hardwoods meandering through the canyon bottoms. Within the NCA is Fort Stanton Cave. At over 44 miles, it is the second longest cave in New Mexico, the 9th longest cave in the U.S.

What we know about it

Managed by

Bureau of Land Management

Fee

Not published (the agency does not list one)

Booking

first-come, first-served

Stay limit

14 Days

Dogs

Allowed on a leash (BLM policy)

Phone

575-322-0030

Coordinates

33.50657, -105.49295

Nearest sites we map

• Rob Jagger'S Campground2 km · Bureau of Land Management
• Baca13 km · US Forest Service
• Cedar Creek (Sam Tobias)24 km · US Forest Service
• Skyline Fc24 km · US Forest Service
• South Fork25 km · US Forest Service
• Oak Grove Fc27 km · US Forest Service

Source: Recreation.gov, dated 2026-06-04, fetched 2026-09-07. Official listing.

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