## Overview

Echo Amphitheater is a natural amphitheater located on the Carson National
Forest in Rio Arriba County, in Northern New Mexico. .

## Recreation

Echo Amphitheater Recreation Site offers opportunities for hiking, nature
viewing, camping, and picnicking.

## Facilities

Stay for a short time, the entire day, or overnight! This site has multiple
picnic/shade ramada options, vault toilets, a paved walkway up to the
amphitheater, a large group shelter, and eight campsites with electric hook-
ups. Campsites can accomodate small and medium-sized RVs, camper vans, and
tents at some sites. Plus, there are two double sites that provide additional
parking.

## Natural Features

The sandstone cliff is known for its unique echoing auditory properties. The
red vertical stripes down the otherwise horizontally stratified cliff wall are
streaks of mineral varnish that provides a colorful contrast to the sandstone
cliff. This colorful geological feature combined with its unusual auditory
properties no doubt fed the legend of myth associated with the Echo
Amphitheater

## Contact Info

This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general
information, please call: (575) 684-2489.

## Nearby Attractions

Abiquiu Lake, Ghost Ranch Education and Retreat Center, Canjilon Lakes

<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>Echo Amphitheater is a natural amphitheater located on the Carson National Forest in Rio Arriba County, in Northern New Mexico.  .</p>
<h2>Recreation</h2>
<p>Echo Amphitheater Recreation Site offers opportunities for hiking, nature viewing, camping, and picnicking.  </p>
<h2>Facilities</h2>
<p>Stay for a short time, the entire day, or overnight!  This site has multiple picnic/shade ramada options, vault toilets, a paved walkway up to the amphitheater, a large group shelter, and eight campsites with electric hook-ups.  Campsites can accomodate small and medium-sized RVs, camper vans, and tents at some sites.  Plus, there are two double sites that provide additional parking.  </p>
<h2>Natural Features</h2>
<p>The sandstone cliff is known for its unique echoing auditory properties. The red vertical stripes down the otherwise horizontally stratified cliff wall are streaks of mineral varnish that provides a colorful contrast to the sandstone cliff. This colorful geological feature combined with its unusual auditory properties no doubt fed the legend of myth associated with the Echo Amphitheater</p>

<h2>Contact Info</h2>
This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (575) 684-2489.
<h2>Nearby Attractions</h2>
<p>Abiquiu Lake, Ghost Ranch Education and Retreat Center, Canjilon Lakes</p>

**Day Use:** **$5/vehicle** (day use is any amount of time spent at Echo
Amphitheater in one day). Use of the restrooms, picnic tables, parking lot,
hiking, all require a day use fee. Please help us keep this site open and
operating by paying your fees at the entrance!

**Camping (all sites have electric hook-ups!):**

$20 Per Single Site

$35 Per Double Site

$5 Per Extra Vehicle

**Group Picnic Shelter:** $50/day with 40 person maximun. Reserving this group
shelter includes three campsites (sites 1-3) to be used for additional parking
and camping! Reservations are required to use the group shelter via
recreation.gov.

Fee station, group shelter to the right, and colorful cliffs

Echo Amphitheater entrance

Pathway in parking lot

Echo Amphitheater

Check out the interpretative panels and then walk up to the amphitheater!

Interpretive panels and amphitheater

Echo Amphitheater -- Night Sky

New vault toilets brought to everyone by the Great American Outdoors Act

New vault toilets

Beautiful geologic layers and the amphitheater

Amphitheater and parking lot

## Overview

The El Rito Campground Group Shelter is situated along El Rito Creek and is
part of a larger campground, El Rito Campground. The group shelter and
campground are located approximately 5 miles from the small village of El
Rito. Elevation of the group shelter is 7,600 feet with the predominant
vegetation being pinon, cottonwood, spruce, juniper and gambel oak.

This is a **great place** to host your family and friends, graduation parties,
organization meetings, and school events. Stay for the day or make it an
overnight! Visitors can enjoy hiking and fishing, plus there are also nearby
opportunities for sport and traditional climbing . Wildlife (depending on the
season) may include mule deer, squirrels, chipmunks, and racoons plus the rare
sighting of a bear or mountain lion. The campground is situated along the
banks of the El Rito Creek.

**Typical season** of use is May 1 to October 1. **Check-in at the site is
1:00 PM on the start date of your reservation. Check-out is 11:00 AM on the
last day of your reservation.**

## Recreation

The nearby creek is great for fishing and enjoying nature. Look for birds
flitting around the water in search of their next aquatic meal and splash
around in the creek on hot days when the water is lower and you need to cool
off. The water from this creek begins in the mountains as snow and rain runoff
and travels along the corridor shared with the picnic shelter/camping area.
Cross the creek and you will find adventures at the base of the red cliffs.
Can you spot the hawk flying overhead and was that a chipmunk that just ran
past you?!

Please **do not** climb the cliffs unless you are an experienced rope/harness
climber. There are specific climbing areas designed for such adventures in the
nearby vicinity.

## Facilities

The nearby creek is great for fishing and enjoying nature. Look for birds
flitting around the water in search of their next aquatic meal and splash
around in the creek on hot days when the water is lower and you need to cool
off. The water from this creek begins in the mountains as snow and rain runoff
and travels along the corridor shared with the picnic shelter/camping area.
Cross the creek and you will find adventures at the base of the red cliffs.
Can you spot the hawk flying overhead and was that a chipmunk that just ran
past you?!

Please **do not** climb the cliffs unless you are an experienced rope/harness
climber. There are specific climbing areas designed for such adventures in the
nearby vicinity.

## Natural Features

This group shelter/camping area is tucked up in the forest and located next a
babbling creek that is popular for fishing and lounging next to when the
moment strikes you. The view of the nearby cliffs tops off this great
experience in nature.

<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>The El Rito Campground Group Shelter is situated along El Rito Creek and is part of a larger campground, El Rito Campground.  The group shelter and campground are located approximately 5 miles from the small village of El Rito. Elevation of the group shelter is 7,600 feet with the predominant vegetation being pinon, cottonwood, spruce, juniper and gambel oak.  </p>
<p>This is a <strong>great place </strong>to host your family and friends, graduation parties, organization meetings, and school events.  Stay for the day or make it an overnight!  Visitors can enjoy hiking and fishing, plus there are also nearby opportunities for sport and traditional climbing .  Wildlife (depending on the season) may include mule deer, squirrels, chipmunks, and racoons plus the rare sighting of a bear or mountain lion.  The campground is situated along the banks of the El Rito Creek. </p>
<p><strong>Typical season </strong>of use is May 1 to October 1.  <strong>Check-in at the site is 1:00 PM on the start date of your reservation. Check-out is 11:00 AM on the last day of your reservation.</strong></p>
<h2>Recreation</h2>
<p>The nearby creek is great for fishing and enjoying nature.  Look for birds flitting around the water in search of their next aquatic meal and splash around in the creek on hot days when the water is lower and you need to cool off.  The water from this creek begins in the mountains as snow and rain runoff and travels along the corridor shared with the picnic shelter/camping area.  Cross the creek and you will find adventures at the base of the red cliffs. Can you spot the hawk flying overhead and was that a chipmunk that just ran past you?!  </p>
<p>Please <strong>do not</strong> climb the cliffs unless you are an experienced rope/harness climber. There are specific climbing areas designed for such adventures in the nearby vicinity.</p>
<h2>Facilities</h2>
<p>The nearby creek is great for fishing and enjoying nature.  Look for birds flitting around the water in search of their next aquatic meal and splash around in the creek on hot days when the water is lower and you need to cool off.  The water from this creek begins in the mountains as snow and rain runoff and travels along the corridor shared with the picnic shelter/camping area.  Cross the creek and you will find adventures at the base of the red cliffs. Can you spot the hawk flying overhead and was that a chipmunk that just ran past you?!  </p>
<p>Please <strong>do not</strong> climb the cliffs unless you are an experienced rope/harness climber. There are specific climbing areas designed for such adventures in the nearby vicinity.</p>
<h2>Natural Features</h2>
<p>This group shelter/camping area is tucked up in the forest and located next a babbling creek that is popular for fishing and lounging next to when the moment strikes you.  The view of the nearby cliffs tops off this great experience in nature.  </p>

Echo Amphitheater

Overview

Recreation

Facilities

Natural Features

Contact Info

Nearby Attractions

Reviews

Camp Sites

Nearby Campgrounds

El Rito Campground--Group Shelter