Grant County, New Mexico
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- Alhambra — Ghost Town · Grant County, NM
Short-lived mining camp in the Burro Mountains country west of Silver City. A thin southwestern New Mexico ghost pin for a named camp that never grew into a …
- Bill Evans Lake — Wildlife · Grant County, NM
New Mexico Department of Game and Fish wildlife area around a ~62-acre mesa-top reservoir west of Silver City / south of Cliff. Year-round warm-water fishing…
- Burro Peak — Geology · Grant County, NM
High summit of the Big Burro Mountains in southwestern Grant County, a classic Basin-and-Range desert-mountain massif of metamorphic and igneous rock rising …
- Chino Mine Vista Point (Santa Rita) — Geology · Grant County, NM
Roadside overlook of the Chino open-pit copper mine — also called Santa Rita del Cobre — one of the oldest copper districts in the United States and a textbo…
- City of Rocks State Park — Natural · Grant County, NM
One-square-mile field of sculpted volcanic tuff towers rising from Chihuahuan Desert scrub between Deming and Silver City—camp among the ‘streets,’ hike, sta…
- Faywood Hot Springs — Hot Spring · Grant County, NM
Long-used geothermal spring cluster and visitor soaking resort in the Mimbres Valley of Grant County, with developed outdoor mineral pools fed by the Faywood…
- Fierro — Ghost Town · Grant County, NM
Zinc- and copper-mining town in the Hanover–Fierro district north of Bayard, boom-era enough for a theater, store, and pool hall before a 1920s fire and late…
- Fort Bayard Historic District — Historic · Grant County, NM
National Historic Landmark district east of Silver City established in 1866—home post for Buffalo Soldier cavalry and later a pioneering Army tuberculosis ho…
- Gila Hot Springs — Hot Spring · Grant County, NM
Thermal spring settlement on the Gila River above the Gila Cliff Dwellings corridor, with visitor soaking pools at riverside lodges and documented spring out…
- Hachita — Ghost Town · Grant County, NM
Southern desert railroad and mining service town in the Playas Valley approaches, a thin Grant/Hidalgo borderland ghost for section-house and camp scatter. F…
- Hanover — Ghost Town · Grant County, NM
Historic copper-mining settlement in the Central Mining District east of Bayard, still a sparsely occupied GNIS populated place with visible mill-era street …
- Lake Roberts Recreation Area — Natural · Grant County, NM
USFS recreation area on ~70-acre Lake Roberts in the Gila National Forest north of Mimbres / Silver City country. Upper End and Mesa campgrounds, fishing (ra…
- Malone — Ghost Town · Grant County, NM
Historical mining camp in the southern Burro Mountains district. Another thin Grant County ghost for a named camp on desert mountain roads south of the Silve…
- Pinos Altos — Ghost Town · Grant County, NM
Grant County’s first county seat and one of southwestern New Mexico’s earliest gold camps (Spanish for “tall pines”), high in the Pinos Altos Mountains above…
- San Juan Historic District — Historic · Grant County, NM
San Juan Historic District is a historic district in Grant County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, recognized for significanc…
- San Lorenzo Historic District — Historic · Grant County, NM
San Lorenzo Historic District is a historic district in Grant County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, recognized for signific…
- Signal Peak Trailhead — Geology · Grant County, NM
USFS trailhead on NM 15 for Signal Peak Trail #742 in the Pinos Altos Mountains north of Silver City—a steep mixed-conifer climb to a historic fire lookout (…
- Silver City Historic District — Historic · Grant County, NM
Silver City Historic District is a historic district in Grant County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, recognized for signific…
- Steeplerock — Ghost Town · Grant County, NM
Historical mining settlement near the New Mexico–Arizona line in the Steeple Rock district, associated with late-nineteenth-century gold and silver prospects…
- Three Sisters NM — Geology · Grant County, NM
Trio of isolated summits in southwestern Grant County rising above the desert grassland and piñon-juniper of the Burro Mountains foothill country. The cluste…