Travel Tales: Lake Valley Ghostown, NM

Want to see a cool and fairly intact ghost town? One of the best is Lake Valley, NM, which is just north of Deming, NM. Gringo miners came into NM in the late 1800s and one of them found a huge silver lode in this mountain basin. Others followed and the town grew. From the official…

Travel Tales: Hillsboro, New Mexico

  After our stay at Percha Dam State Park, my friends Betty and Sharon headed north, back to Colorado. I headed west, towards the mountainous Gila National Forest and Silver City on Hwy 152. The road wound back and forth, over the Black Mountains. However, the eastern slope of the National Forest was parched and…