by Melodie Kenniebrew | Aug 21, 2016 | Attractions and Events, Destinations, Southern NM & Borderlands, Travelogues
Want to see an icon up close? And, at the same time, some of the sweetest scenery in the Southwest? Then you’ll want to hike the Pine Tree Trail at Aguirre Spring in Southern New Mexico. For one thing, Aguirre Spring Campground is arguably the closest you can get to...
by Melodie Kenniebrew | Aug 7, 2016 | Attractions and Events, Destinations, Las Cruces, Southern NM & Borderlands
How far can you go on a Corralitos trail ride adventure? It takes you some 25 miles inside the vast Corralitos Ranch, a cattle ranch 16 miles west of Las Cruces. That’s 290 square miles of sagebrush and chaparral-covered prairie surrounded by mountains ~ a...
by Melodie Kenniebrew | Mar 5, 2016 | Attractions and Events, Destinations, Southern NM & Borderlands
Like art and s-c-a-r-y movies? Then you’ll like Carlsbad Cavern’s Big Room at Carlsbad Caverns National Park, the largest single cave chamber in North America. Now if you’re an avid caver wanting to climb, wriggle through narrow gaps, and get as dirty as...
by Melodie Kenniebrew | Dec 19, 2015 | Attractions and Events, Destinations, outdoors, Southern NM & Borderlands
From half-way up the Pine Tree Trail, on the east side of the Organs, what does the world look like? The Tularosa Basin, a BIG dry land basin, lays in front of you ~ to the northeast, due east, and southeast. Just how “big” is the Tularosa Basin? It covers...
