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During the night of June 10–11, 2010 a flash flood along Little Missouri River killed 20 people in the campgrounds of the Albert Pike Recreation Area. [1] In a matter of less than four hours water rose from three feet to over twenty-three feet. Since that time the U.S. Forest Service has closed the site for further evaluation. [2] [3]
Navajo Dam is a dam on the San Juan River, a tributary of the Colorado River, in northwestern New Mexico in the United States. The 402-foot (123 m) high earthen dam is situated in the foothills of the San Juan Mountains about 44 miles (71 km) upstream and east of Farmington, New Mexico. [3]
The AHTD and the US Forest Service decided to improve Montgomery County Road 4 (CR 4) and Forest Service Road 143 near Albert Pike in August 1987 to benefit the tourism industry. [19] Following construction, the Highway 369 supplanted CR 4 to Albert Pike on January 9, 1991.
Farmington (Navajo: Tóta') is a city in San Juan County in the U.S. state of New Mexico.As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 46,624 people.Farmington (and surrounding San Juan County) makes up one of the four metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in New Mexico.
The first phase or the Pinon Hills Boulevard extension south of East Main Street will reach County Road 3000 just south of the Animas River.
This is a list of state parks and reserves in the New Mexico state park system. The system began with the establishment of Bottomless Lakes State Park on November 18, 1933. [1] New Mexico currently has 35 state parks. It has been calculated that 70% of the state's population lives within 40 miles (64 km) of a New Mexico state park. [2]
Bright red lines are vegetation along the major rivers of the area. The main southeast–northwest river is the San Juan. The prominent confluence near the center is the confluence with the Mancos River, in New Mexico. The minor confluence northwest of there is with the Toh Dahstini Wash, which drains to the north from Arizona, joining the San ...
Continue on NM 122 to NM 117 and drive south to the El Malpais National Monument, made about 3,000 years ago by lava flows. [7] [11] Return to Grants and from NM 122, take NM 53 south to the Ice Cave and Zuni-Bandera volcanic field, where there is the "Chain of Craters" of cinder cones. [7] [11]