About Dog Canyon Campground
Number of accommodations: 14
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2026 Season availability
Open year round
This campground is open year round, providing flexibility for your stay.
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Pet friendly
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- Potable Water
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- Pet friendly
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Reviews (435)
Review Summary
Charles B
VerifiedOctober 14, 2022 • Stayed at: 5, Loop: Tent Area
This is a great base camp for hiking. Campground is equipped and well-maintained. You are remote and out of touch with the world.
Very beautiful.
Lorie C
VerifiedOctober 10, 2022 • Stayed at: 9, Loop: Tent Area
The birding is the best! The trails and area are wonderful. Our campsite #9 was good but on a strange tilt making for a sleeping experience that was at an odd downhill angle. And due to the recent heavy rains, the trails in the campground were rutted and washed out. The Bush trail was harder to get through than the Tejas because of the recent rains. Other than those minor things it was very nice for a primitive setting. Facilities were clean and the rangers were very personable.
Lorie C
VerifiedOctober 10, 2022 • Stayed at: 9, Loop: Tent Area
The birding is the best! The trails and area are wonderful. Our campsite #9 was good but on a strange tilt making for a sleeping experience that was at an odd downhill angle. And due to the recent heavy rains, the trails in the campground were rutted and washed out. The Bush trail was harder to get through than the Tejas because of the recent rains. Other than those minor things it was very nice for a primitive setting. Facilities were clean and the rangers were very personable.
Kenneth L
VerifiedSeptember 30, 2022 • Stayed at: RV-B, Loop: RV Area
This is a small and relatively isolated campground. It's an absolute treasure and trailhead for a beautiful nature walk full of a wide variety of fall flowers. You can also join the Tejas and Bush trails from here. If you're coming from Pine Springs campground be ready for a 2 hour drive. Consider stopping by Sitting Bull Falls in NM on the way in or out. Just gorgeous in the midst of the Chiuauan desert.
Kenneth L
VerifiedSeptember 30, 2022 • Stayed at: RV-B, Loop: RV Area
This is a small and relatively isolated campground. It's an absolute treasure and trailhead for a beautiful nature walk full of a wide variety of fall flowers. You can also join the Tejas and Bush trails from here. If you're coming from Pine Springs campground be ready for a 2 hour drive. Consider stopping by Sitting Bull Falls in NM on the way in or out. Just gorgeous in the midst of the Chiuauan desert.
william d
VerifiedSeptember 28, 2022 • Stayed at: RV-B, Loop: RV Area
A small camp ground with great views. The only thing available there is water, so pack heavy.
william d
VerifiedSeptember 28, 2022 • Stayed at: RV-B, Loop: RV Area
A small camp ground with great views. The only thing available there is water, so pack heavy.
Sarah M
VerifiedSeptember 24, 2022 • Stayed at: 2, Loop: Tent Area
Good about
Sarah M
VerifiedSeptember 24, 2022 • Stayed at: 2, Loop: Tent Area
Good about
Steven A
VerifiedSeptember 13, 2022 • Stayed at: 4, Loop: Tent Area
On Labor Day weekend with a near capacity campground the Ranger station was unoccupied. Printed info on the park and trails was unavailable. No trail maps were available. The Tejas trail is in need of maintenance. A tree was down over the trail 0.5 mile from the trailhead. It had obviously been down for some time. It's foliage had died some time ago and a well worn trail had formed around the tree. No cairns were present when crossing stream beds.
The campground itself is claustrophobic. The tent pads at campsites #3 and #4 are less than fifteen feet apart. On the upside the area had received abundant rainfall and the wildflowers were in full bloom.
Location Dog Canyon Campground
Address:
400 Pine Canyon Drive
Salt Flat, TX, 79847
United States
From Carlsbad NM to the Dog Canyon area of Guadalupe Mountains National Park, take US Hwy 285 north to NM Hwy 137 and turn south. Travel (62 miles/100 km) to Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Dog Canyon entrance.
From the Pine Springs Visitor Center to Dog Canyon, take US Hwy 62/180 east. Once you enter New Mexico, travel 25 miles (40 km) and turn left onto County Road 408 (Dark Canyon road). Travel approximately 23 miles (27 km) to the intersection with NM Hwy 137/Queen Hwy, turn left/south. Follow Queen Hwy 25 miles (40 km) to the Dog Canyon entrance. The drive time between Dog Canyon Campground and Pine Springs Campground is 2 hours.
Use extreme caution! This is open rangeland, cattle are frequently on the roadway.
Latitude & Longitude: 31.9949 / -104.833
Elevation: 1912 feet
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Last updated: May 20, 2026
