 Mountains near Rock Hound state Park.
 Rock Hound state Park Deming New Mexico  Just down the road from Rock Hound state Park is Spring Canyon state Park, and this is a picture of the mountains that Spring Canyon is in. It's a pretty place with hiking trails and picnic areas, but there's no camping. You can see the road leading into the Park, which in some places is more like a roller coaster than a road.  the Escapees RV Park in Deming New Mexico after days of rain.  I figured I'd better put a color picture in the blog as things were starting to look pretty bleak.
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 Rock Hound state Park New Mexico
 The campground at Rock Hound state Park  Deming New Mexico in the background  The Arroyo water hazard I had to ford to get to Rock Hound.  Mountains near Rock Hound state Park.  Back in the really old steam train days, they had to be filled up with water about every 10 miles and it was fairly common for a little town to spring up around these water stops, and the railroad would write the name of the town on the water tank that filled up the train, and I guess later on the towns continued to name their city water tank just like the railroad had. In Colorado if you know where the old train lines were you can look at topo maps and see a name about every 10 miles where a town used to be. Some of the towns survived, like Woodland Park where I used to live, and others show no sign of ever existing.
 There's a lot of old buildings in Deming and far too many of them are abandoned. Some have been refinished and opened up with a different business like this antique store only to go out of business again like this one.  There's a handful of very nice old homes in Deming which tells me there must've been some money being made here at one time. But it looks like a lot of the large homes have been turned into apartments, which makes more financial sense than one family living in such a large place. |
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