Mescalero National Fish Hatchery

Directions: Exit Highway 70 at mile marker 246, go on Eagle Drive (100 ft), turn left on Apache Blvd. 0.3 mile, turn right on Rainbow Drive to Hatchery.

Primary Function: Stocking of trout on the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation and in other Indian waters throughout New Mexico.

Recreation and Education: Instructional Visitor Center, walk through hatchery.

Habitat: Ponderosa Pine - Oak Woodland.

Special Note: The Hatchery is developing broadstock for the endangered Gila trout, and also holding the Rio Grande cutthroat trout (New Mexico State Fish).

P.O. Box 247
202 Trout Loop
Mescalero, NM 88340
(505) 671-4401