Caballo Country Store and RV Park

Caballo Country Store and RV Park in Caballo, New Mexico, is a campground near Caballo Lake with full-hookup RV sites and the mountain-and-desert scenery of Sierra County's Rio Grande valley — a combination country store and campground that serves travelers on the I-25 corridor between Albuquerque and El Paso while giving fishing, boating, and birdwatching guests the direct access to Caballo Lake's warm-water reservoir and the Rio Grande's migratory bird corridor in the Chihuahuan Desert landscape of southern New Mexico. Caballo's Sierra County position on the Rio Grande gives the campground the specific desert mountain scenery of the Black Range and the Caballo Mountains reflected in the reservoir's surface that makes the Caballo Lake area one of the more visually distinctive stopping points in the I-25 desert corridor. Full-hookup RV sites with the mountain views and the proximity to Caballo Lake State Park's recreational access give guests the complete base for Rio Grande valley activities — the country store provides the convenience shopping and local information that remote desert corridor campgrounds specifically enable for guests who would otherwise require a Caballo or Truth or Consequences town trip for basic supplies. The campground's combination of practical I-25 stop and recreation destination reflects the dual-use character that the Caballo Lake corridor's position on a major interstate gives to every property in this section of the Rio Grande valley. Pets are welcome. Caballo Lake, a Rio Grande impoundment in Sierra County created by the Caballo Dam in 1938, provides the bass, walleye, white bass, catfish, and crappie fishing that sustains the warm-water fishery anglers who target the reservoir's productive shallow flats and the mid-lake structure in the desert-encircled reservoir. The lake's January Eagle Days festival concentrates bald eagles on the reservoir's winter fish kill and the thermals above the Caballo Mountains in numbers that make Caballo Lake one of the most reliably productive winter eagle-viewing locations in New Mexico, and the Sandhill Crane wintering concentration in the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge 30 miles north gives the Rio Grande valley its spectacular winter bird spectacle. Elephant Butte Lake, 20 miles north of Caballo in Sierra County, is the largest lake in New Mexico — an 89-square-mile reservoir on the Rio Grande that sustains the most extensive water recreation infrastructure in the state, with the Elephant Butte Lake State Park's two developed marinas, the summer houseboating economy, and the White Bass spawning run in spring that draws anglers from across New Mexico and west Texas to the Rio Grande's largest impoundment in one of the most concentrated spring fishing events in the Southwest. The Elephant Butte and Caballo reservoirs together create the consecutive lake experience that the I-25 corridor in Sierra County provides as the transition between the Albuquerque plateau and the El Paso desert. Caballo Country Store and RV Park serves guests year-round in Sierra County's Chihuahuan Desert climate, where the warm winters attract the snowbird market from New Mexico's northern tier and the Colorado Plateau, the spring fishing season from March through May drives the Caballo and Elephant Butte angling demand, and the summer monsoon from July through September brings the dramatic afternoon thunderstorm cycle that the desert lightning and the Rio Grande valley's storm approach make visually spectacular from the campground's open site lines. Truth or Consequences, 15 miles north on I-25, gives the campground's guests the hot springs soaking access of the Sierra County mineral spring resort town that recovered its specific Geronimo Springs Museum and the Rio Grande hot spring character after the 1950 television game show renaming. Reserve sites ahead for the winter snowbird season and Eagle Days weekend in January.