Three Rivers Petroglyph Site is a lesser known, although pretty spectacular place above Alamogordo, NM. It contains over 20,000 rock carvings, that are dated from roughly 200 to 1450 AD, all within a half mile ridge line. You can literally crawl around, through these boulders, just looking at petroglyph after petroglyph.
I am including a lot of pictures, just to show how many are here. Some are in great shape still, others are more faded.
I assume that this one represents a centipede, like the one in the picture below it.
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Big horn sheep.
A lizard or turtle.
A bird.
After a few hours of wandering through the petroglyphs, the weather started moving in, so we headed back to camp.
For seven dollars a night, we were able to camp right on the premises. As you can see, the views were beautiful, and we were the only ones there. They have clean restrooms and potable water at the pump.
After the rains passed, we cooked up a quick dinner and enjoyed a quiet night. The hosts even left some peaches at our campsite from their tree. It was super sweet of them!
The next morning as we headed out for our next destination, we stopped at McGinn’s Pistachio land to see if we could take a pistachio tour, but they weren’t open yet, so we continued on.
The pistachio trees are really pretty!
We made our way through the mountains toward the town of Cloudcroft. On the way, we passed this old train trestle that had been partially restored. It used to bring people from the desert up to Cloudcroft in the 1800’s. This is the overlook for the trestle.
