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• New Mexico State Parks - Information about New Mexico's state parks, including recreation activities, facilities, special events, fees, regulations, maps, and photos.
• Bluewater Lake - Popular for boating and year-round fishing. Features brochure and listing of activities and facilities.
• Bottomless Lakes - The lakes are water filled sinkholes in the local gypsum terrain where odd geology and water chemistry create homes for unusual plants and animals, like the Pecos Sunflower. Roswell, New Mexico.
• Brantley Lake - A southern desert park for fishing and water sports with a visitor center that includes historical exhibits about the wild west town of Seven Rivers. Carlsbad, New Mexico.
• Caballo Lake - Caballo, New Mexico. This park's claim to fame are the majestic Bald and Golden Eagles that migrate through the area.
• Cimarron Canyon - Part of the Colin Neblett Wildlife Area in Eagle Nest.
• City of Rocks - Faywood, New Mexico.
• Clayton Lake - Offers fishing and the internationally significant dinosaur trackway, containing more than 500 footprints dating back more than 100 million years. Seneca, New Mexico.
• Conchas Lake - Offers a wide variety of water sport activities including boating, fishing and water-skiing at this 25-mile long reservoir. Conchas Dam, New Mexico.
• Coyote Creek - Located in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Guadalupita, New Mexico.
• El Vado Lake - Located in New Mexico's northern mountains El Vado Lake offers fishing, boating, hiking, water-skiing, and winter cross-country skiing.
• Elephant Butte Lake - The largest and most popular lake in New Mexico.
• Fenton Lake - A popular year-round retreat surrounded by beautiful ponderosa pine forests, the park features a cross-country ski and biathlon trail and wheelchair accessible fishing platforms. Close to Jemez Springs, New Mexico.
• Heron Lake - Designated as a "quiet lake" where boats operate at no-wake speeds only. This park is known for its excellent sailing, fishing, cross-country skiing, and hiking. Los Ojos, New Mexico.
• Hyde Memorial - Located close to the Santa Fe National Forest.
• Leasburg Dam - Offers fishing, canoeing and kayaking. Located near Radium Springs, New Mexico.
• Living Desert Zoo and Gardens State Park - An indoor/outdoor living museum displaying more than 40 native animal species and hundreds of succulent plants from around the world.
• Manzano Mountains - Offers fishing, bird watching, photography, hiking, and cross-country skiing near Albuquerque, in Mountainair, New Mexico.
• Morphy Lake - Undeveloped area is accessible by foot or by high-clearance vehicle. Guadalupita, New Mexico.
• Navajo Lake - Three separate recreation areas comprise this park. Pine River, the most developed area along the lake, includes a visitor center with interpretive exhibits. Sims Mesa is across the lake. The San Juan River area below the dam is world renowned for excellent trout fishing. Navajo Dam, New Mexico.
• Oasis - Set among cottonwood trees, shifting sand dunes, and a small fishing lake. Portales, New Mexico.
• Oliver Lee Memorial - Set against the Sacramento Mountains, this park features historical exhibits and a fully restored 19th century ranch house. Alamogordo, New Mexico.
• Pancho Villa - Contains historical exhibits of the raid on Columbus by Francisco "Pancho" Villa.
• Pancho Villa State Park - Pancho Villa State Park, Columbus, New Mexico
• Percha Dam - Features fishing and hiking on the Rio Grande, located at Caballo, New Mexico.
• Rio Grande Nature Center - Winter home to Canada geese, sandhill cranes, and various species of ducks and other waterfowl. A trail system along the river, classrooms, and an extensive library with viewing areas add to this valuable public resource in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
• Rockhound - A favorite for "rockhounds" because of the abundant agates and quartz crystals found there, on the rugged west slope of the Little Florida Mountains. Demming, New Mexico.
• Santa Rosa Lake - A high plains Pecos River reservoir, offers a variety of water sports and fishing.
• Storrie Lake - Wind-surfing, fishing and boating. The visitor center features historical exhibits about the Santa Fe Trail and 19th century Las Vegas, New Mexico.
• Sugarite Canyon - Located on the Colorado border near Raton, New Mexico, the park features heavily wooded mountains and meadows painted with wildflowers. Fishing, boating, hiking, cross-country ski, camping and picnic areas.
• Sumner Lake - Offers fishing for a variety of species and is a winter haven for migrating waterfowl. Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
• The American Southwest: Living Desert State Park - Park which exhibits the varied plants and animals of the arid Chihuahuan Desert located near Carlsbad.
• Ute Lake - A Canadian River reservoir, offers some of the best walleye fishing in New Mexico. Logan, New Mexico.
• Valley of Fires Recreation Area - An area many square miles of buckled, twisted lava, 9 miles northwest of the windswept town of Carrizozo
• Villanueva - Between sandstone bluffs along the Pecos River, near the picturesque Spanish-colonial village.

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