Today we moved from Elephant Butte park to Rockhound State Park. Rockhound is a bit southwest of Deming NM. We got the last non-reservable site in the park, by arriving about 10 am.
On the way we finally saw some renewable-energy sites. New Mexico has so much sun and wind it seems a natural for solar and/or wind power, but we've seen very little of it. Today though:
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| A good-sized solar farm |
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| Later on, a large wind-and-solar installation. Thousands of solar panels. |
We've found Rockhound state park unexpectedly scenic and nice. It's billed as a primitive park, but we have electric and water hookups in the group site we're in. The main washrooms are open (!) and FAR superior to the Elephant Butte ones. At Elephant Butte we found the distributed vault toilets far nicer than the central one.
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| The site itself is level and serviced, in their Group area |
Here are some views around the small park:
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| Very green Ocotillo, but no flowers yet |
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| A Claret Cup cactus with lots of cups |
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| Looks like a storm approaching |
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| Yep, it stayed for a little while |
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| After the storm, clear again |
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| The park office is an attractive adobe building |
Here's a map of today's route:
We overnighted at Rock Hound one time then slipped further south to Columbus and stayed at Pancho Villa State Park. A lot of history in Columbus and of course there is the 'Pink Store' just across the border in Palamas Mexico. It's an easy walk from a parking lot across the border. The Pink Store is right there, can't miss it.
ReplyDeleteThanks Al. We took a little tour today to Columbus and Pancho Villa. We decided to not cross the border though, we're not that adventurous.
DeleteYou arrived at the perfect time of day we had that same site there a fe years ago for about a week and loved it there. Like Al said Columbus and Pancho villa state park are very nice lots history there as well. Plus the Pink store across the border in Mexico as well.
ReplyDeleteWe do like it here, and will likely stay another day or two before starting to head east.
DeleteYou have some frameable photos here, beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThanks Meagan, it's sure gorgeous around here.
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