City of Rocks State Park New Mexico

We decided not to go to Santa Fe since it was so cold and explored the Gila area of New Mexico instead. The City of Rocks campground has spots 41-48 as first come first serve and we got a great spot in the rocks with a perfect view of the sunset. It was very fun hiking around the rocks that were formed from volcanic ash from volcanos that erupted over 30 million years ago! We finally had our dark skies for viewing lots of stars.Read more