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Elephant Butte Lake State Park
- Established
- 1965
- Acreage
- 24,500 · ~24,500 acres of park land surrounding a 36,500-acre reservoir; New Mexico's largest state park
- Location
- Sierra County, NM (near Truth or Consequences)
- Key features
- Elephant Butte Reservoir (built 1911-1916 on the Rio Grande, 40 mi long, 200 mi shoreline); elephant-shaped volcanic core (the 'butte'); desert lake recreation
- Activities
- Boating, fishing (bass, walleye, catfish), swimming, camping, water skiing, sailing, jet skiing
- Notable
- New Mexico's largest and most-visited state park; the reservoir was once briefly the largest man-made lake in the world after its 1916 completion
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Source: www.emnrd.nm.gov · 2026-05-14