White Sands National Monument Located near Alamogordo, NM TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS Gypsum sand dunes at White Sands National Monument (NPS Photo) IN BRIEF At the northern end of the Chihuahuan Desert lies a mountain ringed valley called the Tularosa Basin. Rising from the heart of this basin is one of the world's great natural wonders - the ...
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El Malpais National Monument Located in Grants, NM TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS Lava flows, and Mount Taylor in the distance. Reine Wonite IN BRIEF El Malpais National Monument and Conservation Area was established in 1987 and is a relative newcomer to the National Park System. This monument preserves 114, 277 acres of which 109, 260 acres are federal ...
El Morro National Monument Located in Ramah, NM TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS (NPS Photo) IN BRIEF Inscription Rock is a soft sandstone monolith, rising 200 feet above the valley floor, on which are carved hundreds of inscriptions. The monument also includes pre-Columbian petroglyphs and Pueblo Indian ruins. Proclaimed Dec. 8, 1906. Boundary changes: ...
Aztec Ruins National Monument Located in Aztec, NM TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS (NPS Photo) IN BRIEF Aztec Ruins National Monument preserves structures and artifacts of Ancestral Pueblo people from the 1100's through 1200s. People associated with Chaco Canyon to the south built and used the structures, then people related to the Mesa Verde region to ...
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument Located near Silver City, NM TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS Gila Cliff Dwellings (NPS Photo) IN BRIEF Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument offers a glimpse of the homes and lives of the people of the Mogollon culture who lived in the Gila Wilderness from the 1280s through the early 1300s. The surroundings probably ...
Pecos National Historical Park Located in Pecos, NM TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS Ruins at Pecos National Historical Park (NPS Photo) IN BRIEF Pecos preserves 12, 000 years of history including the ancient pueblo of Pecos, two Spanish Colonial Missions, Santa Fe Trail sites, 20th century ranch history of Forked Lightning Ranch, and the site of the Civil ...
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Located in Mountainair, NM TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS Quarai Ruins (NPS Photo) IN BRIEF Once, thriving American Indian trade communities of Tiwa and Tompiro speaking Puebloans inhabited this remote frontier area of central New Mexico. Early in the 17th-century Spanish Franciscans found the area ripe for their ...
Capulin Volcano National Monument Located in Capulin, NM TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS View from crater rim. (NPS Photo) IN BRIEF Capulin Volcano, a nearly perfectly-shaped cinder cone, stands more than 1200 feet above the surrounding High Plains of northeastern New Mexico. The volcano is long extinct, and today the forested slopes provide habitat for ...
Fort Union National Monument Located in Watrous, NM TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS Fort Union (NPS Photo) IN BRIEF Fort Union was established in 1851 by Lieutenant Colonel Edwin V. Sumner as a guardian and protector of the Santa Fe Trail. During it's forty-year history, three different forts were constructed close together. The third and final Fort Union ...
RIO GRANDE NATURE CENTER HOMEPAGE This 270 acre park along the Rio Grande bosque, or riparian forest, is a sanctuary for warblers and waterfowl, coyotes and 100 year old cottonwood trees. More than 260 species of birds rest during migration or nest in stands of cottonwoods, willow, tamarisk and Russian olive. About 2 miles of nature trails offer a sense of tranquility in the dappled shade of ...
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