Amaris Feland Ketcham occupies her time with open space, white space, CMYK, flash nonfiction, long trails, f-stops, line breaks, and several Adobe programs running simultaneously. Her creative work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, the Kenyon Review, Rattle, the Utne Reader, and many more literary venues across the country. Her book of poems, A Poetic Inventory of the Sandia Mountains, was published in 2019. Amaris teaches interdisciplinary liberal arts at the University of New Mexico Honors College. Her courses include creative writing, graphic design, nonfiction comics, and bookmaking. She is the faculty advisor and instructor for the award-winning, undergraduate literature and arts magazine, Scribendi. Her work on Poetic Routes (poeticroutes.com) has been adopted by the Albuquerque City Planning Department as a way to use poetry as a means of understanding neighborhoods and community character and values throughout town. As a practitioner of creative placemaking, she has taught poetry workshops in Albuquerque’s bosque and Place as Text Institutes with the National Collegiate Honors Council. Amaris has painted murals throughout Albuquerque, acted in a radio drama about the Badlands National Park, and taken students on multiweek camping trips along the Lewis and Clark Trail.

New Mexico Campground Locator Map
Map Legend
Acknowledgments
Preface
Best Campgrounds
Introduction

Northern New Mexico

• Bandelier National Monument: Juniper Family Campground
• Black Canyon Campground
• Blackjack Campground
• Canjilon Lakes Campgrounds
• Chaco Culture National Historic Park: Gallo Campground
• Clear Creek Camground
• Cochiti Lake and Tetilla Peak Campgrounds
• Columbine Campground
• Coyote Creek State Park Campground
• Elephant Rock Campground
• Fawn Lakes Campground
• Fenton Lake State Park Campground
• Holy Ghost Campground
• Hopewell Lake Campground
• Iron Gate Campground
• Jemez Falls Campground
• Paliza Family Campground
• Panchuela Campground
• Rio Chama Campground
• Rio de las Vacas Campground
• Rio Grande del Norte National Monument: Orilla Verde Campgrounds
• Rio Grande del Norte National Monument: Wild Rivers Campgrounds
• San Antonio Campground
• Santa Barbara Campground
• Sugarite Canyon State Park: Lake Alice and Soda Pocket Campgrounds
• Valle Vidal: McCrystal and Cimarron Campgrounds
• Villanueva State Park Campground

Southeastern New Mexico

• Aguirre Springs Recreation Area Campground
• Caballo Lake State Park Campground
• Deerhead Campground
• Fourth of July Campground
• Oak Grove Campground
• Percha Dam State Park Campground
• Pines Campground
• Red Canyon Campground
• Sleepy Grass Campground
• Sumner Lake State Park Campgrounds
• Valley of Fires Recreation Area Campground
• White Sands National Park Campground

Southwestern New Mexico

• Apache Creek Campground
• City of Rocks State Park Campground
• Datil Well Campground
• Dipping Vat Campground at Snow Lake
• El Malpais National Conservation Area: Joe Skeen Campground
• El Morro National Monument Campground
• Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument Campgrounds
• Juniper Campground
• Pinon Campground
• Pueblo Park Campground
• Water Canyon Campground

Appendix A: Camping Equipment Checklist
Appendix B: Sources of Information
Index
About the Author