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The Pecos Wilderness includes the southernmost extension of the Rocky Mountains in the sub-range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of north central New Mexico. One trail head for the wilderness is only 15 miles by road from Santa Fe, the state capital. Covering an area of 223,667 acres (90,515 ha) (350 sq mi) it is the second largest wilderness ...
Pecos National Historical Park
Clayton Lake State Park. Clayton Lake State Park is a state park of New Mexico, United States, featuring a 170-acre (69 ha) recreational reservoir and a fossil trackway of dinosaur footprints. It is located 15 miles (24 km) north of Clayton, close to New Mexico's border with Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas. The park is accessed via New Mexico ...
Fenton Lake State Park. Fenton Lake State Park is a state park of New Mexico, USA, located 33 miles (53 km) north of San Ysidro, in the Jemez Mountains. [2] The 37-acre (15 ha) lake is a popular fishing destination. It was featured as a filming location (showing the splash-landing of an alien spacecraft) in the 1976 movie The Man Who Fell to Earth.
Truchas Peak (more precisely, South Truchas Peak; Tewa: K'usenmp'in) is the second highest peak in the U.S. State of New Mexico behind Wheeler Peak. [ 3] It is in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains 26 miles (42 km) northeast of Santa Fe. It lies within the Pecos Wilderness, part of the Santa Fe National Forest.
The Rio Grande cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus virginalis virginalis) [2], a member of the family Salmonidae, is found in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado in tributaries of the Rio Grande. [3][4] It is one of 9 subspecies [2] of the Rocky Mountain cutthroat trout [2][5][6][7] native to the western United States, and is the state fish of ...
Ute Lake State Park is a state park in New Mexico, USA, located on the eastern plains. The park features a large 8,200-acre (33 km 2) reservoir on the Canadian River that is home to various fish species including largemouth bass, catfish, crappie and walleye. The state-owned Ute Dam creating the reservoir was completed in 1963 without federal ...
8,500 ft (2,600 m) Established. 1938 [1] Named for. Benjamin Talbot Babbit Hyde. Governing body. New Mexico State Parks Division. Hyde Memorial State Park is a state park of New Mexico, United States, located 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Santa Fe in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. [2] Summertime activities include hiking and camping, the park ...