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Organ Mountains. The 496,330-acre (200,860 ha) monument is located in the Mesilla Valley in southern New Mexico, surrounding the city of Las Cruces in Doña Ana County.The protected area includes several mountain ranges of the Chihuahuan Desert.
The Organ Mountains (also known as La Sierra de los Órganos) are a rugged mountain range in southern New Mexico in the Southwestern United States. Organ Mountains–Desert Peaks National Monument was declared a national monument on May 21, 2014. [1] They lie 10 mi (16 km) east of the city of Las Cruces, in Doña Ana County. [2]
Organ Needle is one of the most dramatic peaks in the state. True to its name, it is a steep, pointed summit. Moreover, it rises 4,000 feet (1,220 m) above the edge of the Tularosa Basin to the northeast in only 2 miles (3.2 km), and 5,100 feet (1,554 m) above Las Cruces, giving it as large and as steep a degree of local relief as any peak in ...
Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument was first established in 2014 by former-President Barack Obama. It covers 496,000 acres in southern New Mexico and was intended to protect historic ...
Broad Canyon Wilderness is a 13,902-acre (5,625 ha) wilderness area in the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in the US state of New Mexico. Established in 2019, this Wilderness located on the eastern end of the Sierra de las Uvas , contains small canyons created by water eroded lava ...
Mount Riley Wilderness is an 8,382-acre (3,392 ha) wilderness area in the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in the U.S. state of New Mexico.
Located inside the White Sands Missile range, just approximately 60 miles east of Las Cruces, lies a historical hotel that underwent a $5.7 million facelift.
Kilbourne Hole is located within Organ Mountains–Desert Peaks National Monument and administered by the Bureau of Land Management. [14] It is accessed via Doña Ana County Road A-011, driving 8 miles (13 km) west from the railroad. The hole is "on the right, past the big tan dirt bank."