Month: August 2020

Trujillo Meadows Reservoir - Chama

Trujillo Meadows Reservoir – Chama

Trujillo Meadows Reservoir, a short drive north of Chama, New Mexico, is 69 surface acres in size. The lake offers fishing for browns, rainbows and occasional brook trout. There is a boat ramp, small motorized and non-motorized boats are allowed. The lake is a no-wake...

Rancho del Oso Pardo

Rancho del Oso Pardo

Rancho del Oso Pardo may be the most beautiful ranch land in the northern New Mexico mountains. With 7 miles and both sides of the Rio Chama and 11 alpine lakes, fishing for legendary wild rainbow and brown trout, hunting, hiking, horseback riding, and wildlife...

Chama River Basin Trout Fishing Public Access

Chama River Basin Trout Fishing Public Access

The Chama Basin Trailhead is at the beginning of Forest Service property at the end of FDR 121. It gives access to the Archuleta Creek and Chama River trails. Dispersed camping is allowed there. From Chama, NM travel north on highway 17 to the Chama River Road #121,...

Rio Chama Basin Trout Fishing Public Access

Rio Chama Basin Trout Fishing Public Access

This is the trailhead we left from where, in about 1987, we took Alec, Shannon and Kelly on a horseback outfitter camping trip to the Rio Chama high country. The Upper Rio Chama River is formed in the San Juan Mountains. It has an East and West Fork, both of which...

Latir Peak Wilderness Bighorn

Latir Peak Wilderness Bighorn

Latir Peak Wilderness is a 20,506-acre wilderness area located within the Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico, United States. Designated in 1980, the wilderness is composed of dense forest, meadows, and alpine tundra on Latir Mesa in the northern portion. It...

Water Tank Cattle Pens

Water Tank Cattle Pens

Ruins of a Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad water tank and cattle pens on the Rancho del los Pardo ranch near Chama, New Mexico. Built in 1880, the track between Antonito and Chama was part of the San Juan Extension of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad....

Hummingbird Sunrise

Hummingbird Sunrise

Every summer morning Hummingbirds gather in our Juniper tree and take turns on the feeder on the patio. Hummingbirds may be popular summer visitors at nectar feeders, but they eat many other things. Just as a good backyard feeding station will provide different types...

Ruidoso Alto & Grindstone Lakes Hiking and Swimming

Ruidoso Alto & Grindstone Lakes Hiking and Swimming

Ruidoso is a village in Lincoln County, New Mexico, United States, adjacent to the Lincoln National Forest. The population was 8,029 at the 2010 census. The city of Ruidoso Downs and the unincorporated area of Alto are suburbs of Ruidoso, and contribute to the Ruidoso...