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El Vado State Park
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| Tierra Amarilla, NM 87575 |
| (575) 588-7247 |
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Located in New Mexico's northern mountains, El Vado Lake State Park offers fishing, boating, water-skiing, and winter cross-country skiing.
Quiet coves around the lake are great places to catch trout and kokanee salmon, or just get away from it all. A five and one half mile scenic trail along the Rio Chama connects El Vado with nearby Heron Lake.. |
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The Ghost Ranch
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| Abiquiu, NM 87510 |
| Phone ( 505) 753-2155 |
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The Ghost Ranch is a 21,000-acre retreat and education center run by the Presbyterian Church, located close to the village of Abiquiu. The Ghost Ranch is the subject of many landscapes by the American painter Georgia O'Keeffe, who maintained a summer home there in 1934, then her permanent residence on the property from 1949 until her death. This is where her ashes are scattered. Ghost Ranch includes a famous paleontological site preserving Triassic dinosaurs. Fossil bones were found here as early as 1885. Location: Carson National Forest, 15 miles north of Abiquiu, US 84.. |
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