About Black Bear Group Area
Number of accommodations: 1
Seasonal information
2026 Season availability
001, Loop: BLAC
Site Details
Reviews (6)
What Guests Are Saying
The Black Bear Group Area offers a fantastic location with friendly and helpful guests. The campground is quiet, clean, and well-maintained, making it ideal for gatherings like family reunions. Amenities such as a covered pavilion and regular trash collection enhance the overall experience.
What Guests Are Saying
The Black Bear Group Area offers a fantastic location with friendly and helpful guests. The campground is quiet, clean, and well-maintained, making it ideal for gatherings like family reunions. Amenities such as a covered pavilion and regular trash collection enhance the overall experience.
Review Summary
Ernest G
VerifiedAugust 18, 2025 • Stayed at: 001, Loop: BLAC
The location is great. The campground guests are very friendly and they are very helpful. The campground itself was very quiet. The campground was extremely clean and very well maintained. 5 stars.
Greg E
VerifiedJune 22, 2025 • Stayed at: 001, Loop: BLAC
This campground was the perfect location for our family reunion. The covered pavilion provided plenty of shade and there were more than enough picnic tables. Trash was picked up each morning and the bathrooms were very clean.
Albert J
VerifiedJune 18, 2023 • Stayed at: 001, Loop: BLAC
It was great. We will be back!!
Madison S
VerifiedJune 5, 2023 • Stayed at: 001, Loop: BLAC
My family and I have been coming here for years and we really enjoy our time at Black Bear Campground! The area is always cleaned before arrivals. Restrooms on site are attended to. There is always plenty of firewood laying around for our nightly fires. Plenty of space to house tents and enjoy the outdoors. There is plenty of seating to accommodate our party. Highly recommend camping here if you’re new! Cell phone will vary! We have T-Mobile and it was spotty to no service. Verizon was about 1-2 bars. ATT was about 1-2 bars as well. This was based of family members who had those services.
Ivan B
VerifiedMay 24, 2021 • Stayed at: 001, Loop: BLAC
Excellent hosting, all clean and functioning, real nice secluded tent areas and LOTS of open space
Blanca C
VerifiedJanuary 15, 2020 • Stayed at: 001, Loop: BLAC
We have been camping at Black Bear for the past few years and always have an awesome experience. The camp host is so friendly and always so helpful. Beautiful campground!!
Location Black Bear Group Area
Address:
Po Box 836
Cloudcroft, NM, 88317
United States
In southeast New Mexico, approximately 20 miles east of Alamagordo.
From Alamagordo take US 82 east. Go 16 miles. Just before Cloudcroft,
turn right (south) on NM 130. Go 1.4 miles. Turn left (east) on Forest
Road 24B. Go .5 miles. Black Bear Group area is on right (south) side
of road across from Aspen Group Area.
The campground is accessible via US 82, which is approximately 16 miles from Alamagordo, and NM 130, which connects directly to the site.
Latitude & Longitude: 32.9208 / -105.742
Elevation: 2622 feet
Policies & Rules
Arrival & departure
Check in time
2PM
Check out time
12PM
General
- Black Bear Group Area accommodates up to 70 people.
- Call 575-682-1518 prior to arrival to get the lock combination.
- There is no public phone.
- There is no water at this site; water may be obtained at Sleepy Grass Campground until Labor Day.
- Fire Restrictions: Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed.
- Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
- Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee. This fee is retained by the reservation service contractor along with the non-refundable reservation fee. All requests for the return of the non-refundable reservation fee and the cancellation fee will be declined by the campground concessionaire as they did not receive these fees (these are the fees retained by the reservation contractor, a different entity).
- Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
- For more information on the Lincoln National Forest, please visit Home | Lincoln National Forest | Forest Service
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Last updated: June 3, 2026
