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Sugarite Canyon State Park is a state park of New Mexico, United States, featuring a historic early-20th century coal-mining camp and natural scenery at the border of the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains. The park is located on the Colorado–New Mexico state line 6 miles (9.7 km) in Colfax County, New Mexico, northeast of Raton.
This is a list of state parks and reserves in the New Mexico state park ... Elevation [4] Year Established [5] Remarks; ... Sugarite Canyon State Park: Colfax: 3,600 ...
Lake Maloya is a reservoir in Sugarite Canyon State Park on the New Mexico-Colorado State border, northeast of Raton, New Mexico. It is the main source of water for the city and its outlying areas. [1] When full, the lake's surface has an elevation of 7,516 feet (2,291 meters). [2]
The only public road which penetrates the area is through Sugarite Canyon State Park in New Mexico. It terminates shortly after crossing the border into Colorado at an altitude of 7,560 feet (2,300 m).
Adjoining Fishers Peak State Park on the east on the mesa below Fishers Peak are two Colorado State Wildlife Areas (SWA): Lake Dorothey, 5,152 acres (2,085 ha), and James M. John, 8,339 acres (3,375 ha). Lake Dorothey also adjoins Sugarite Canyon State Park, 3,600 acres (1,500 ha), in New Mexico. The total contiguous acreage in public ownership ...
Death Valley National Park, notorious for its below sea level desert, also has soaring mountains, including Telescope Peak, its highest. This is a list of United States National Parks by elevation. Most of America's national parks are located in mountainous areas. Even among those located close to the ocean, not all are flat.
Coyote Creek, a tributary of the Mora River, flows almost due south through Guadalupita Canyon.An ridge called La Mesa rises to 9,112 feet (2,777 m) in elevation above the park to the east, and to the west is the Rincon subrange of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. [3]
Adjoining Fishers Peak State Park on the east are two Colorado State Wildlife Areas (SWA): Lake Dorothey, 5,152 acres (2,085 ha), and James M. John, 8,339 acres (3,375 ha). Lake Dorothey also adjoins Sugarite Canyon State Park, 3,600 acres (1,500 ha), in New Mexico. The total contiguous acreage in public ownership is thus about 36,000 acres ...