Tourning South Eastern New Mexico Oct 2022
Situated in the mountains, this country-style bed-and-breakfast is a 9-minute walk from Zenith Park and an 11-minute walk from Sacramento Mountains Museum. It's also 12 miles from Old Apple Barn. The quaint rooms feature free Wi-Fi, microwaves and en suite bathrooms, plus balconies with mountain views. There's a breakfast buffet served in a warm dining room.
The Bead and Breakfast
Carlsbad Caverns National Park is an American national park in the Guadalupe Mountains of southeastern New Mexico. The primary attraction of the park is the show cave Carlsbad Cavern. Visitors to the cave can hike in on their own via the natural entrance or take an elevator from the visitor center. The park entrance is located on US Highway 62/180, approximately 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Carlsbad, New Mexico. Carlsbad Caverns National Park participates in the Junior Ranger Program.[3] The park has two entries on the National Register of Historic Places: The Caverns Historic District and the Rattlesnake Springs Historic District.[4] Approximately two-thirds of the park has been set aside as a wilderness area, helping to ensure no future changes will be made to the habitat. Carlsbad Cavern includes a large limestone chamber, named simply the Big Room, which is almost 4,000 ft (1,220 m) long, 625 ft (191 m) wide, and 255 ft (78 m) high at its highest point. The Big Room is the largest chamber in North America and the 32nd largest in the world.
Carlsbad Cacerns
The Sitting Bull Falls Recreation Area is a rare gem in the hot desert of southeastern New Mexico. An hour outside of Carlsbad, this oasis offers cool pools of water and the beautiful Sitting Bull Falls. Spend the day enjoying a picnic in the cabanas and a dip in the natural pools. The site is open from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm in the winter, or until 6:00 pm during summer. Visit the website for day-use fees. Come for a full day at the falls or access one of the many trails from this site.
Sitting Bull Falls
The Richard B. Dunn Solar Telescope, abbreviated as the DST, is a unique vertical-axis solar telescope, located on the western edge of Sunspot overlooking the Tularosa Basin. The optical path starts at a heliostat on top of a 136-foot-tall (41 m) concrete tower and continues 193 feet (58.8 m) more underground to the primary mirror, which is 64 inches (1.6m) in diameter. It then returns to one of six quartz optical windows in the floor of an optical laboratory at ground level, where the scientific instruments are located. The entire optical path is kept at a vacuum to eliminate distortion due to convection in the telescope that would otherwise be caused by the great heat produced by focusing the light of the sun. The telescope tube, optical laboratory, and instruments are connected as a single freely-rotating platform, weighing over 250 tons and floating on 120 gallons of liquid mercury. Originally named the Vacuum Tower Telescope at Sacramento Peak, it was renamed in 1998 in honor of the retiring solar astronomer Richard B. Dunn who was the driving force behind its construction.
SunSpot Solar Observatory
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