Sugarite Canyon State Park, State park in Colfax County, New Mexico.

Sugarite Canyon State Park covers 3,600 acres where the Rocky Mountains meet the Great Plains. A stream valley flanked by basalt cliffs runs between Bartlett and Little Horse Mesas to the west and Horse Mesa to the east. Ponderosa pine and gambel oak forests cover most of the park, with willow and cottonwood along Chicorica Creek and fir and aspen on higher north-facing slopes. Lake Maloya covers 120 acres and Lake Alice 3 acres.

Coal mining shaped the region starting in 1894, leading to the founding of the mining town of Sugarite in 1912. The settlement briefly flourished as a coal community before economic shifts caused its gradual decline.

The name derives from either the Comanche and Ute word for a local bird or the Spanish term Chicorica, meaning chicory plant.

The park holds 13 miles (21 km) of hiking trails; the longest, the 6-mile Ponderosa Ridge/Opportunity Trail, starts at the Lake Maloya spillway. Little Horse Mesa Trail is a 2-mile round trip climbing steeply to the park's highest point. Sailboats and electric-motor boats are allowed on Lake Maloya, which has a boat dock; winter snow can close some roads and facilities.

The park's highest point is not on Ponderosa Ridge but on Little Horse Mesa, reached by a 2-mile round-trip trail that climbs steeply to 8,350 feet. The mesa top is flat and nearly treeless, unlike the forested slopes below.