La Madera is a census-designated place in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States.

[1] La Madera is a community located in the mountains of northern New Mexico and nestled within the confines of the Kit Carson National Forest.

The company built two large logging camps, which served as a source of timber harvested from permitted Federal Government land in the nearby Carson National Forest.

Hallack and Howard financed the construction of a narrow gauge rail spur from the La Madera operation to the D&RG Railroad connection at Taos Junction.

[citation needed] Since the settlement of La Cueva, Province of New Mexico, was not a result of a formal land grant with specific assignment of land parcels to original grantees, the analysis of the initial pobadores will be made in a sequential manner starting with the year 1822.