Alerts

Santa Fe National Forest leadership has decided to lift Stage 1 Fire Restrictions in Cuba, Coyote, Jemez, Espanola, and Pecos/Las Vegas Ranger Districts, effective at 8:00 a.m. on Friday, June 6, 2025. 

A $3.5M roadway rehabilitation project on NM 475, Hyde Park Rd., is scheduled to resume on June 4, 2025

There is a phone outage at the Las Vegas District Office in Las Vegas, N.M. We will update the public when the office can receive phone calls. Please contact our other Santa Fe National Forest District Offices for questions. 

The area in the vicinity of Tesuque Peak Powerline is temporarily closed for a powerline rebuild and restoration project. 

The Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) has issued a camping closure for Headquarters Well in the Española Ranger District to prevent further resource damage caused by an increase in unauthorized long-term camping, vandalism, and trash dumping.

The purpose of this Order is to provide natural and cultural resource protection for the Jemez Cave and for public safety and welfare until current damage to natural and cultural resources can be assessed and a long-term management strategy developed. 

The Santa Fe National Forest has the need to limit the stay of the visitors to lessen the opportunity of residency; and to comply with State Law prohibiting the consumption of alcoholic beverages by persons under the age of 21; and to protect general visitors sensitive to public nudity from human

The purpose of this Order is to protect bighorn sheep from diseases transmitted by domestic sheep and goats.

Special Closure Order for the Santa Fe watershed

WHEREAS, bathing, fishing, camping, picnicking, and other forms of human occupancy of the Santa Fe River Watershed in the Santa Fe National Forest, causes pollution of the water flowing therein used by the residents of Santa Fe, New Mexico , for drinking and domestic purposes, to a degree threate