Coronado National Forest · New Mexico
Overview Riggs Flat Lake is located at the end of Swift Trail, a road that winds along the top of the Pinaleno Mountains. It is a small picturesque lake, 11 acres in size, set in alpine forest and meadow. Its cold waters are stocked during the summer with rainbow, brown and brook trout, and anglers report that the fishing is usually good.
Sites at Riggs Lake are reserved through Recreation.gov. Sites here can be reserved in advance through the official system, and they are claimed fast — cancellations then trickle back all season, unannounced, at any hour of the day or night.
| Total sites | 1 |
|---|---|
| Site types | Group |
| Book through | Recreation.gov |
| Official listing | Recreation.gov |
Because sites are booked months ahead, a steady share of reservations get cancelled as trips fall through. Each cancellation instantly returns that site and those nights to the official calendar — first-come, first-served, no waitlist, no announcement. Refreshing the booking page yourself, every few minutes for weeks, works in theory. In practice, the people who get these sites are the ones who hear about the opening first.
itOpened scans the Recreation.gov calendar for Riggs Lake around the clock. When a site matching your dates and your vehicle opens, you get a text with a direct link to it. You book it yourself, in your own account, at the normal price. We never book, hold, or resell — your fee pays for monitoring, and openings are first-come, so speed is the whole game.
| Rose Canyon | Cancellation alerts available |
|---|---|
| Whitetail Campground | Cancellation alerts available |
| Showers Point Group Site | Cancellation alerts available |
| Upper Arcadia | Cancellation alerts available |
| Calabasas | Cancellation alerts available |
| Camp Rucker Group Site | Cancellation alerts available |
| Canelo Ranger Office | Cancellation alerts available |
| Canelo Ranger Residence | Cancellation alerts available |
| Half Moon Ranch | Cancellation alerts available |
| Kent Springs Cabin | Cancellation alerts available |
| Kentucky Camp Cabin And Headquarters Building | Cancellation alerts available |
| Lower Twilight Group Site | Cancellation alerts available |
| Molino | Cancellation alerts available |
| Palisades Ranger Residence Cabin | Cancellation alerts available |
| Peppersauce | Cancellation alerts available |
| Portal Bunkhouse | Cancellation alerts available |
| Portal Ccc House | Cancellation alerts available |
| Reef Townsite Group Area | Cancellation alerts available |
| Rock Bluff Group Site | Cancellation alerts available |
| Sabino Canyon Recreation Area Cactus Ramada 1 | Cancellation alerts available |
| Sabino Canyon Recreation Area Cactus Ramada 2 | Cancellation alerts available |
| Shaw House | Cancellation alerts available |
| Sollers Cabin (AZ) | Cancellation alerts available |
| Stockton Pass | Cancellation alerts available |
| Treasure Park - East | Cancellation alerts available |
| Treasure Park - North | Cancellation alerts available |
| Upper Hospital Flat Group Site | Cancellation alerts available |
| Upper Twilight Group Site | Cancellation alerts available |
Page data refreshed 2026-10-29. Site facts come from the official directory listing for Riggs Lake; cancellation statistics come from our own scanning logs.