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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 forested surroundings that makes it a tourist attraction, and tourism remains the primary economy of the village.
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). The chairlift was added in 1983, It is a fixed-distance double chairlift with a rise of 590 feet (180 m) and a length ...
Sunspot, New Mexico. / 32.791; -105.818. Sunspot is an unincorporated community in the Sacramento Mountains in the Lincoln National Forest in Otero County, New Mexico, United States, [ 1][ 2] about 18 miles (29 km) south of Cloudcroft. Its elevation is 9,186 feet (2,800 m). The Sunspot Solar Observatory and Apache Point Observatory are located ...
Cloudcroft Observatory. / 32.9795°N 105.7336°W / 32.9795; -105.7336. Cloudcroft Observatory, ( obs. code: V29) is an astronomical observatory located in the Lincoln National Forest near Cloudcroft, New Mexico, approximately 23 kilometers (14 mi) northeast of Alamogordo. It is owned by the Tzec Maun Foundation, a private astronomical ...
Lincoln National Forest is a unit of the U.S. Forest Service located in southern New Mexico. The Lincoln National Forest covers an extensive 1.1 million acres in southeastern New Mexico. [ 3] Established by Presidential Proclamation in 1902 as the Lincoln Forest Reserve, the 1,103,897 acres (4,467.31 km 2) forest begins near the Texas border ...
Timberon is a census-designated place (CDP) in Otero County, New Mexico, United States, and is within the Sacramento Mountains at the southern edge of the Lincoln National Forest. The population was 345 at the 2020 census . Timberon has a nine-hole golf course, as well as a lodge, a pool, a church, an airstrip and a volunteer fire department.
Top elevation (feet) Base elevation (feet) Vertical (feet) Runs Lifts Snowfall (in/year) Date Statistics Updated Angel Fire Resort: Angel Fire: 560 10,677 8,600 2,077 80 7 210 November 2021: Chama Cross Country: Chama: 9,000 7,800 1,200 0 100 October 2021: Enchanted Forest Cross Country Ski Area: Toas: 10,078 9,800 475 33 0 240 October 2021
Alamogordo ( / ˌæləməˈɡɔːrdoʊ /) is the seat of Otero County, New Mexico, United States. A city in the Tularosa Basin of the Chihuahuan Desert, it is bordered on the east by the Sacramento Mountains and to the west by Holloman Air Force Base. The population was 31,384 as of the 2020 census.