Seven rooms, RV hookups and room for 22 guests. A comfortable, welcoming base for hunters, anglers, and families.
Wild Out Pro's private lodge in Blanco, New Mexico — your home base before and after the hunt. Seven rooms, a full kitchen and bar, walk-in freezer for your meat, and a guide team that's up before you are.
Whether you're rolling in after a week of archery elk or heading out in the morning for your first mule deer, The Cockhouse gives you exactly what you need: a real bed, a hot meal, and good company around the fire pit.
Prefer to bring your own rig? Full RV hookups on-property keep you self-contained while still having the whole WOP team right outside your door.
The Cockhouse Lodge sits just 4.5 miles from Navajo Lake Airstrip, making us one of the most accessible fly-in destinations in northwest New Mexico. If you have access to a plane, schedule your touchdown and we'll handle everything from there.
Whether you're coming in to hunt, fly fish the San Juan, shoot the archery course, or simply unwind in the high desert, we'll pick you up from the airstrip and have a room, a hot meal, and your next day's adventure waiting. We offer full lodging and meals for fly-in guests — just give us a call and tell us when you're landing.
Public-use field, no fuel services on site. Call ahead and we’ll meet you at the strip.
The Cockhouse sits 5 miles from Navajo Lake and just 6 miles to the Quality Waters from one of the greatest trout fisheries on the planet. The San Juan River below Navajo Dam is a year-round tailwater fishery ranked as a Top-10 Fly Fishing Destination in the United States — right in your backyard when you stay with us.
Cold, clear water flows out of the bottom of Navajo Dam twelve months a year, creating stable temperatures that never rise above the mid-40s. The result is an extraordinary concentration of fish — up to 15,000 rainbow and brown trout per mile — with fish averaging 16 to 18 inches and trophy specimens well beyond that.
The famed Quality Waters section stretches 3.75 miles below the dam — flies and artificial lures only, single barbless hook, catch-and-release. Below that, year-round bait fishing with standard regulations. The river can be waded or floated, and fishes well in every season. Winter months are often spectacular.
Wild Out Pro's guided fly fishing trips put you on the San Juan with experienced local guides who know every run, pool, and hatch cycle. Float trips in a drift boat or wade the upper stretch that boats can't reach.
Before it was a hunting lodge, this land had a different kind of fight in it. The Cockhouse sits on property that locals say was once used as a cockfighting arena — part of a long tradition across rural New Mexico that stretched back generations, woven into the culture of ranching communities and the high desert frontier.
Cockfighting was legal in New Mexico longer than almost anywhere else in the country. New Mexico was the 49th state to ban the practice, finally outlawing it in 2007 — decades after most of the country had moved on. In San Juan County, the sport was part of the rural fabric, held at local arenas where ranchers, oilfield workers, and their families gathered on weekends. The fighting rooster wasn't just a bird — he was a symbol of grit, toughness, and the unbroken spirit of the West.
When Derek Martin and Wild Out Pro took over this property, they honored that history with a name and a logo: a rooster with boxing gloves raised, standing in an archway. The Cockhouse. It wears its past without apology — and now it channels that same fighting spirit into the pursuit of trophy game.
Blanco sits at 5,568 feet in the high desert of the Colorado Plateau, about 20 miles east of Farmington in San Juan County. The land here has been inhabited for over a thousand years — Ancestral Puebloans built great houses and kivas across this basin, and the ruins of Chaco Canyon lie just to the southeast.
Spanish settlers arrived in 1598, and by the late 1800s ranching families had spread across the high desert, carving out homesteads in the cedar and sage. Blanco's post office opened in 1901. The Rose of Lima Catholic Parish, established in 1900, was the first parish in all of San Juan County.
Then came oil. In 1911, pioneer Henry F. Brock struck oil while drilling for water — accidentally discovering what would reshape the entire region. By the 1920s, the Blanco-Mesaverde gas field was one of the most significant in the San Juan Basin, and the energy boom transformed sleepy desert communities into something entirely new.
Hunting or not, the doors are open. Seven rooms, RV hookups, room for 22. Tell us your dates and we'll get you sorted.
Questions about the lodge, availability, or your upcoming stay
info@cockhouselodge.com4 New Mexico 539
Blanco, New Mexico