TX NEW MEXICO ROCKS & FLOWERS

Wild Seed Farm Willow Loop

Hike to Gorman Falls 2.6 to 3 miles RT Camp 325-628-3240 Thurs

Blackwater Draw Museum page 127 of NM Book. Tuesday-Sat. 10-5 7 miles northwest of Portages on NM 467 Dailey Windmill Museum 575-356-5307 Miles Mineral Museum and Natural History.. M_F 8-5

Check along route 70 maybe - don't know where I read that.

Oasis State Park $10 or $14 hookups Fri

Bottomless Lakes State Park 575-624-6058 Anne Apr 4 rocks site 59,60 59 near Bitter Lake off 70 coming into town

Fort Stanton Historic Site Fri Sat Sun p 128 NM Book Hubbard Museum of the Am West - Smithsonian affiliate Thurs-Mon 9-5 26301 Ruidoso Downs Lincoln National Forest 575-257-4095

Trails. Anne? Rocks north 55,54,53 Sat or Sun

Site 55

Sites 53, 54

Mineralogical Museum M-F 8-5, Sat-Sun 10-3 San Miguel Mission p144 NM Bosque del Apache 16 miles south Monday Apr 1

Chloride Ghost Town , local artists daily 10-4 p.144 40 miles west Rockhounding sites 115, 116, 120, 117 Elephant Butte Lake State Park Tues Apr 2 Hot Springs in town

Hatch is not far south as we exit

Have to go south to Las Cruces and then 70 N to Alamogordo

Eagle Ranch Pistachio and Winery. M-F 1:30 tour free 45 min. 7288 US 54/70 Oliver Lee Memorial State Park. 6 mile hiking trail, rails to trails. 12 miles south of town.

Drive south fromCloudcroft, Sunspot Solar Observatory Can camp around Cloudcroft Wed Apr 3

Rock sites 66 and then north to 62 and 63 Bottomless Lake State Park?

Meet Anne here April 4, 5

Route Home? Can go by Guadalupe and/or Carlsbad and to 20 or 10, or go east to Lubbock and through central Texas

Visit Matt? Apr 6 Sat or Apr 7 Sun