The eggs and hoodoos in the Bisti Wilderness were formed in sand and silt revealed 73 million years ago when the Western Interior Seaway receded.
Navajo Lake is a 3800 feet long and 400 feet deep reservoir located in northeastern San Juan County, created from a dam completed in 1962.
Shiprock (Tsé Bitʼaʼí, "rock with wings") is a 27 million year old volcanic rock formation, designated as a National Natural Landmark, rising 1,583 feet above the desert.
The La Plata Mountains, seen from San Juan County, are a small subrange of the San Juan Mountains in sw Colorado, and includes Hesperus Mountain at 13,332 feet.
The San Juan River is a 383 mile long major tributary of the Colorado River and a primary drainage for the Four Corners.
The Aztec Ruins National Monument, on 318 acres, consists of dwellings and sacred structures built by Ancient Pueblo Indians in the 12th and 13th Centuries.
Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness (Bisti Badlands) is a 45,000-acre wilderness area full of rock formations made of sandstone, shale, mudstone, and silt.
Angel Peak Scenic Area is located 15 miles south of Bloomfield in San Juan County, with over 10,000 acres of rugged terrain, badlands and deep canyons.

DWI

Category: Substance Use

DWI Arrests

In 2024, Law Enforcement in San Juan County made 1,134 DWI arrests. Of the 1,134 DWI arrests, 512 (45%) were driver repeat arrests; 622 were fisrt DWI arrests.

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DWI Arrests in 2024

Repeat DWI Offenses

Trends, DWI Arrests, First and Repeat Offenses

The number of DWI arrests across the county has decreased over the last several years, although 2024 saw an uptick in the number of arrests. The relative proportion of first and repeat offenses has been consistent over time.

Trends, DWI Arrests with Teens and Young Adults

Of the 1,134 DWI arrests, 206 arrests were with teen drivers age 15-19 (45 arrests) and young adult drivers age 20-24 (124 arrests), together constituting 18.2% of the total number of DWI arrests.

There has been a positive, downward trend in DWI arrests with young adults over the past 10 years, from 267 in 2014 to 124 in 2024.

DWI Arrests of Teens & Young Adults

DWI Convictions

Of the 1,134 DWI arrests, 733 (64.6%) resulted in a conviction. As of November 2025, 95 arrests had resulted in dismissal, and 306 were awaiting disposition.

San Juan County is approximately 6% of the state's population, but in 2024 represented 12.0% of the total number of DWI arrests across the state and 13.9% of the state's DWI arrests resulting in convictions.

DWI Arrest data by first and repeat offenses, and for teen and young adult drivers: NM Dept of Transportation, Traffic Safety Community Reports: 
https://gps.unm.edu/tru/crash-reports/community-reports. 

Additional state-wide data from DWI Annual Reports:
https://gps.unm.edu/tru/reports/dwi-reports/index.html

Updated/Checked: Sept-Oct 2026

Convictions data are most recent at the time of the Communitiy Report publication, as reported in the NM MVD Citation Tracking System (CTS).