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View looking into the Sandia Mountains from the La Luz Trail. The La Luz Trail (Trail 137) is a popular hiking trail located on the west face of the Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque, New Mexico. The trail begins at the La Luz Trailhead and proceeds approximately eight miles to either Sandia Crest or the Sandia Peak Tramway. The hike is ...
View from Sandia Crest on the city of Albuquerque and Sandia Peak Tramway. The ski resort also features the Sandia Peak Tramway which takes riders on a 15 minute "flight" from the eastern edge of Albuquerque to Sandia Peak. It is the longest aerial tramway in the Americas, and was the longest in the world from 1966 to 2010. It features the ...
The Sandia Mountains are the most visited range in New Mexico. Numerous hiking trails exist on both sides of the range, such as the popular La Luz Trail and Crest Trail. Much of the west side of the range is included in the Sandia Mountain Wilderness; the trails on that side are steeper, and water is very scarce. Numerous picnic and recreation ...
The following season, ownership was transferred back to the Albuquerque Ski Club, which then turned a profit of $2,500. In 1958, Nordhaus and his business partner, balloonist Ben Abruzzo, who had helped turn Albuquerque into an international ballooning destination, purchased La Madera from the club. During this time, lift tickets were $3.50 per ...
The La Luz Historic District is a 18 acres (7.3 ha) historic district in La Luz, Otero County, New Mexico, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The district included 27 contributing buildings .
The Sandia–Manzano Mountains and West Mesa also have many hiking trails, such as La Luz Trail and Petroglyph National Monument. According to the Trust for Public Land, Albuquerque has 291 public parks as of 2017, most of which are administered by the city Parks and Recreation Department.
Location of Bernalillo County in New Mexico. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bernalillo County, New Mexico.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States.
La Luz del Oeste is a planned community on the West Side of Albuquerque, New Mexico, which is notable for its architecture and urban planning as an example of the New towns movement of the mid-20th century.