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Elephant Butte Reservoir is a reservoir on the southern part of the Rio Grande in the U.S. state of New Mexico, 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Truth or Consequences.The reservoir is the 84th largest man-made lake in the United States and the largest in New Mexico by total surface area and peak volume.
Jun. 20—ELEPHANT BUTTE — Neal Brown dismantled, relocated and reassembled one of his marinas at Elephant Butte Lake State Park last week. Dropping reservoir levels prompted the rare, labor ...
Elephant Butte State Park is a New Mexico gem. On holiday weekends like Memorial Day, visitors have historically reached 100,000 on each day. Elephant Butte Lake visitor guide: when to visit ...
There are 3 developed camps on the lake, with over 200 camping and picnicking sites, concession-operated marinas, and stores. Recreation at Elephant Butte Reservoir is managed by the New Mexico State Parks under agreement with the United States Bureau of Reclamation. An stegomastodon fossil was discovered there on June 9, 2014.
Elephant Butte is a summit that is now in the Elephant Butte Reservoir and within the Elephant Butte Lake State Park in Sierra County, New Mexico. It has an elevation of 4,639 feet (1,414 m). [ 1 ] It was named for its shape, which is said to look like an elephant .
The Rio Grande is visible at left as the Elephant Butte Dam holds back water on June 18, 2023. ... When the Bureau of Reclamation releases water from Elephant Butte and Caballo Lake in New Mexico ...
Elephant Butte Dam or Elephant Butte Dike, originally Engle Dam, [2] is a concrete gravity dam on the Rio Grande near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, in the United States. The dam impounds Elephant Butte Reservoir , which is used mainly for agriculture but also provides for recreation, hydroelectricity, and flood and sediment control.
Camping trailers sit at the very edge of the shore of Elephant Butte Lake on May 31, 2023. One year ago, with the reservoir at less than ten percent capacity, this sandy peninsula had extended far ...