New Mexico Places to Go
National Parks and Monuments | State Parks | Recreation and Wilderness
BLM Areas | Cities and Towns | Historic Locations and Points of Interest
Aztec Ruins National Monument |
El Morro National Monument |
City of Rocks State Park |
Rio Grande Gorge State Park |
Aguirre Springs Recreation Area |
Potrillo Volcanic Field |
Alamogordo, New Mexico
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Pinos Altos, New Mexico |
Acoma, The Sky City |
New Mexico's Highway 152 |
New Mexico Facts
Capital: Santa Fe
Land Area: 121,356 sq. miles
Population: 1,874,614
Counties: 33
Highest Point:
Wheeler Peak at 13,161 feet,
Lowest Point:
Red Bluff Reservoir at 2,842 feet
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DesertUSA is a comprehensive resource about the North American deserts and Southwest destinations. Learn about desert biomes while you discover how desert plants and animals learn to adapt to the harsh desert environment. Study desert landscapes and how the geologic features unique to the desert regions are formed. Find travel information about national parks, state parks, BLM land, and Southwest cities and towns located in or near the desert regions of the United States. Access maps and information about the Sonoran Desert, Mojave Desert, Great Basin Desert, and Chihuahuan Desert, which lie in the geographic regions of Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas, and Utah in the United States and into Mexico.
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
The park's most famous cave, Carlsbad Cavern, is over 1,000 feet deep and currently contains 30 miles of mapped passages. The Big Room of Carlsbad Cavern is the largest underground chamber in the United States. View formations of stalagmites, stalactites, and columns in this video. You will also see the evening flight of Mexican free-tailed bats from the entrance of the Cavern.
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We have a online Wildflower Field Guide that is designed to help you identify desert wildflowers by color, scientific name, region and common name. The pictures are sized to work on the iPod, iPhone and similar devices. With your iPod or phone you will easily be able to identify wildflowers while in the desert. Links for downloads are on the bottom of the Wildflower Field Guide page.
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New DVD
Carlsbad Caverns
