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Elephant Butte Reservoir

1,325 m4,347 ft
Area
43 km²
Tonight
55°FRain showers and thunder · Wind 3–16 mph SSE

Elephant Butte Reservoir is a lake at 1,325 m above sea level in New Mexico, United States, 43 km² in area and 18.9 km long.

All facts
Surface elevation
1,325 m
Length
18.9 km
Shoreline
136.4 km
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Lake

Elephant Butte Reservoir in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline
136.4 km
3D map

Elephant Butte Reservoir 3D map

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Surface
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Topographic map

Elephant Butte Reservoir terrain and contours

20 m contours from the USGS 3DEP 10 m terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

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Elephant Butte Reservoir elevation profile

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Weather

Elephant Butte Reservoir weather

Tonight · Rain showers and thunder · 55°F (13°C) · 62% chance of precipitation · Wind 3–16 mph SSE

Elephant Butte Reservoir forecast for about 1,399 m.

  • Tonight55°62%3–16 mph SSE
  • Sat51°74°58%3–16 mph SSE
  • Sun48°73°14%2–12 mph SW
  • Mon50°70°11%2–7 mph NE
  • Tue49°71°6%2–9 mph ESE
  • Wed50°72°11%1–8 mph SW
  • Thu50°71°52%0–5 mph ESE

Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 24, 02:57 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Elephant Butte Reservoir

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Elephant Butte Reservoir, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

  • Nearest parking

    Elephant Butte Dam Site Park Marina

    1.0 km SE · +2 more within 2.6 km

    DirectionsMap

  • Nearest caravan site

    Paseo del Rio Campground

    1.6 km WSW · +2 more within 4.1 km

    DirectionsMap

  • Nearest campsite

    Ridge Road Campsite

    3.9 km NNW

    DirectionsMap

  • Nearest trailhead

    Turtleback Mountain Trailhead

    4.5 km SW

    DirectionsMap
All mapped places 8
PlaceDistance
Elephant Butte Dam Site Park MarinaParking1.0 km SE
Parking1.6 km WSW
Paseo del Rio CampgroundCaravan site1.6 km WSW
Parking2.6 km NNW
Ridge Road CampsiteCampsite3.9 km NNW
Elephant Butte Lake RV ResortCaravan site4.1 km NW
Desert Cove CampgroundCaravan site4.1 km NNW
Turtleback Mountain TrailheadTrailhead4.5 km SW
Slope

Slope

Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.

Mostly gentle: 85% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°
85.3%
Moderate, 15–30°
13.3%
Steep, 30–45°
1.4%
Cliffs, 45° and over
0.0%
Steeper than 30°
1.4% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view
573 m low point 1,283 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 36.4%Bare rock / sparse 30.0%Shrubland 24.7%Water 5.2%Built-up 3.3%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 10 km; 708 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6
  • Common Raccoon85
  • Great Blue Heron74
  • Creosote Bush67
  • Ring-billed Gull59
  • Gambel's Quail50
  • Pyrrhuloxia47
Where it sits

Where Elephant Butte Reservoir sits

Region
New Mexico13United States932North America1,313
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Nearby places

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Sources

Data sources

Terrain
U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (public domain)
Imagery
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-08-23)
Land cover
© ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts
Wikidata (CC0)
Camping & parking, Geometry
© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
Summits
© OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
Protected area
USGS Gap Analysis Project, PAD-US (public domain)
Wildlife
iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Panorama
Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Forecast
Weather forecast from NOAA National Weather Service (public domain)
Sources
Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia