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Cloudcroft is a village in Otero County, New Mexico, United States, and is located within the Lincoln National Forest.The population was 750 at the 2020 census.. Its high elevation of 8,676 feet (2,644 m) allows for a mild summer and the forested mountains make it a tourist attraction for the surrounding deserts, and tourism remains the primary economy of the village.
Lake of the Woods 34 is a First Nations reserve [1] on Lake of the Woods. It is one of the reserves of the Animakee Wa Zhing 37 First Nation. References
A possible photograph of Bonanza City during the early 1880s [note 2] Bonanza City was founded in 1880 by John Mahoney, the former US consul to Algiers. [1] [10] Bonanza is Spanish for "prosperity" or "rich ore pocket"; [10] Bonanza City was one of the many mining towns founded after the discovery of valuable minerals in the Los Cerrillos hills.
Ski Cloudcroft was founded in 1963 with a T-bar lift. The T-bar had a rise of 440 feet (130 m) and a length of 1,570 feet (480 m). A second T-bar was added the following year with a considerably shorter rise of 140 feet (43 m).
Surrounded by virgin wilderness and stunning vistas, the lake is a popular destination for hikers, campers, and fishermen. [3] The lake is a prominent feature of the park, and can be viewed at the Lake of the Clouds Overlook at the west terminus of the former Michigan highway M-107. The state park occasionally hosts a nighttime sky watch at the ...
The site near Cloudcroft was selected by AFAL in 1961 after several months of site characterization, and construction began in 1962. [1] [3] The First light of the Electro-Optical Surveillance Telescope (EOST) was achieved in 1964. The device was a 1.22 m (48 in) Newtonian telescope on a three-axis mount. The azimuth-elevation-azimuth ...
The Cloudcroft board in 1991 ignored the 1958 resolution that stated the district should not accept Weed and Piñon students. [3] In August 1992 Weed Elementary parents protesting the retention of a teacher they disliked chose to enroll their children in Cloudcroft schools instead as a form of protest, and the Cloudcroft district accepted them. [5]
Bonanza is a ghost town in Custer County, Idaho, United States. It was originally established as a mining town. As of 2005, the land is privately owned but open to the public. Custer has a museum for the gold-rush era where visitors can experience the lives of the citizens of Custer and can search for gold.