Datil Well - BLM, NM

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Datil Well Campground is located about 60 miles west of Socorro NM on US-60. It's a small, 22-site campground with minimum amenities. Datil Well was one of a series of water-stops every 10 miles along the Magdalenna Livestock Driveway. The cattle trail ran 120 miles from AZ to a railhead at Magdalena. The peak year was 1919, when 150,000 sheep and 21,677 cattle made the journey.

505-835-0412

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Entering the campground one finds a small office and a self-pay Iron Ranger station. It would appear that the office is open only during the summer when there is a Campground Host on site.

Date of visit: Nov 2011

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We arrived at sunset on a mid-November day and there was only one camper there, so we had plenty of sites from which to choose. Being on a slight hillside, most sites are rather tilted, but there were a few on the far side of the loop that were reasonably level. Here we are on 17.