El Malpais NCA - Joe Skeen Campground

BLM New Mexico

Visited November 2011

Entrance sign for El Malpais NCA - Joe Skeen Campground

Joe Skeen Campground is a small no-fee facility located on the east side of the El Malpais National Conservation Area, south of Grants. It is operated by the Bureau of Land Management.

As this hillside view of the campground shows, it is located in a generally open area.

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El Malpais NCA - Joe Skeen Campground

As this hillside view of the campground shows, it is located in a generally open area.

Ribbit! The WxToad

Around the campground

We arrived here on the first of November and had the place all to ourselves. Site 9 was about as level a site as we could find.

Sites 7 and 8 share the large parking site - great if you're with some friends.

Site 6 is one of five pull-through sites.

Here are sites 4,3 and 2. Site 4 is really suitable only for tenting - the parking area is very small and tilted.

Site 11 is a large, private pull-through site. Actually, though, with the exception of sites 7 and 8, sites are spaced quite a ways from each other.

There are two "modern" vault toilets, one at each end of the camp loop.

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