The Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters area includes a visitor center, a park, a petroglyph display, and a short trail. These are open without fee year-round. 

The Visitor Center is located just north of the dam on the west side inside the USACE Administration building. The Visitor Center includes:
• Photographs, history, and natural resources in the area
• Public restroom
• Paved driveway and parking

Indian Shelter Area is located just north of the dam on the east side across from
the USACE Administration and Maintenance buildings adjacent to Captain Kramer Park. The shelter is so named because it houses a large petroglyph boulder. The shelter is a locked building with large windows for viewing the petroglyph. This Area includes:
• Paved parking lot with thirteen parking spaces, including two handicapped parking
spaces
• Two one-person flushing toilet/sink ADA-compliant restrooms
• Cement walkway
• Overlook covered shelter
• Overlook Trail

Captain Kramer Park is located just north of the dam on the east side across
from the USACE Administration and Maintenance buildings adjacent to the Indian
Shelter Area. The Park includes:
• Trees and grass
• Paved parking lot with eighteen parking spaces, including two handicapped parking
spaces
• Covered group pavilion with one large grill, fourteen picnic tables, and benches,
three tables, and seven benches, which can be reserved through the USACE
office
• Sand volleyball court
• Two horseshoe pits
• Disk golf course
• One covered ADA-compliant area with two picnic tables with benches
• Seventeen picnic tables and benches
• Fourteen grills
• One unisex vault toilet
• One playground area
• Paved one-way road

Conchas Lake is managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. State Park Passes are not valid at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recreation areas. Corps Day Use Passes and other Federal inter-agency passes (America the Beautiful) are not valid at State Park recreation areas. For information about NM State Park recreation areas please visit the Conchas Lake State Park website.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers offers two separate Day Use Picnic Areas: the Captain Kramer Day Use area across from the Conchas Dam Administrative Building and the Juniper Day Use area located in the Southside Recreation Area. A water access point Boat Launch Ramp and Campground are also located in the Southside Recreation Area. 

The hotspot features one trail, which is approximately a half-mile rugged trail
winding through the natural terrain from the parking area located at the south end of Captain Kramer Park to the overlook area and then looping back around to the parking area. The parking area is paved and ADA accessible, and restrooms are available at the beginning of the trail.