Top 13 Things To Do In Las Cruces, New Mexico
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Here are top 13 things to do in Las Cruces, New Mexico
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1. Railroad Museum -
2. Las Cruces Museum of Art -
3. La Vina Winery -
4. Old Mesilla -
5. Las Cruces Farmers and Crafts Market -
6. New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum -
7. Fort Seldon State Monument -
8. Museum of Nature and Science -
9. White Sands National Monument -
10. Mesilla Valley Bosque State Park -
11. Fountain Theater -
12. Branigan Cultural Center -
13. Organs Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument -
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Explore Las Cruces Museums
Las Cruces, New Mexico, has a number of museums to explore while you are visiting. This podcast introduces you to nine of them, from the state-operated New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, city and university facilities and two privately operated museums. Learn about the exciting collection of fossils and minerals at the Zuhl Museum, Cowboy Days at the Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, and much more. See museums housed in facilities on the National Register of Historic Places: the Las Cruces Railroad Museum and the Branigan Cultural Center. Contact information is included for each museum. This video was produced by Explore! New Mexico for the Las Cruces Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Railroad Days Coming Up At Las Cruces Museum
Railroad Days are coming to the Las Cruces Railroad Museum this Saturday. Friday will be an open house for students and teachers.
Sloan Patton reports.
Where Las Cruces Ave. ends is a small outpost.
Sometimes trains will be going through while visitors are here, said Director of the Las Cruces Railroad Museum, Garland Courts.
The tracks next to it are busy to this very day carrying freight cargo.
Director of the Las Cruces Railroad Museum, Garland Courts was recently here preparing the museum for the annual 'Railroad Day' sponsored by the museum.
They're big. They're loud and everybody's got one in their city, said Courts.
President Theodore Roosevelt stopped by here when Las Cruces Ave. was about the only paved road in town. He reassured Las Cruceans that New Mexico would become a state.
A lot has changed since then. The last passenger train operated here in 1968.
Since then, it has operated as a museum. Visitors have a passion for trains that could be described in almost no other way but romantic.
You've got observation...see it off the main highway, said Courts.
The trains used to travel through New Mexico from Chicago and Los Angeles, showing visitors places like Carlsbad Caverns. A poster urges visitors to see the Underground Fairyland there.
People still reminisce...rather than driving in a car, said Courts.
Courts says the museum received a couple thousand more visitors when Gov. Richardson used to allow the New Mexico Rail Runner Express to travel down from Santa Fe. That was from 2009-2011.
We're hoping...up north they've got one that's from Albuquerque to Santa Fe, said Courts.
Today, there are still about a thousand visitors who come every year on 'Railroad Day' railroad day to take in the history.
The city museum is free to the public year-round.
Sloan Patton reported.
RAILROAD DAY AT THE MUSEUM IS THIS SATURDAY FROM 10AM UNTIL 4PM.
Day Trips From Las Cruces, New Mexico
When you're visiting Las Cruces, you may want to take some fun day trips to explore more of southern New Mexico. This podcast shows you places you may enjoy to the north, south, east and west of the Mesilla Valley, including El Paso, Deming, Alamogordo, White Sands National Monument, and the chile capital of the world, Hatch.
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Dripping Springs Natural Area
Old Mesilla Village
New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum
Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument
Recycled Roadrunner Sculpture
Farmers & Crafts Market of Las Cruces
Soledad Canyon Day Use Area
The Zuhl Museum
Museum of Nature & Science
New Mexico State University
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Las Cruces Railroad Museum
351 North Mesilla Street
Las Cruces, NM 88005
1 (575) 647-4480
New Museum Opens in Downtown Las Cruces
11.07.12 (LAS CRUCES) Workers were wrapping up the finishing touches on the Museum of Nature and Science a day before it opened to the public in downtown Las Cruces Friday.
Richard Quick, the museum's naturalist, was working to place a panel inside a turtle cage.
You have to be real careful with this tape because it sticks once and it's stuck, said Quick.
Richard said New Mexico is no stranger to turtles.
New Mexico has ten species of turtles. The majority of those are aquatic and the Western box turtle is the only box turtle that we have.
The museum showcases one of Las Cruces' most famous residents, Clyde Tombaugh, who first discovered Pluto. Kim Hanson is Education Curator at the museum and a fan of Tombaugh.
He founded the Las Cruces astronomical society and he spent his entire life making astronomy accessible to the public -- a fantastic inspiration to anyone who loves science.
Kim spoke with his family and says Tombaugh probably wouldn't be mad that Pluto was dropped as a planet.
People thought he would have been upset. And they said no, he would not have been upset because he was all about the advancement of science. And it's all about clarity, all about refinement and he would have been fine.
The Museum of Nature and Science has some history of its own. For the last 25 years, it was inside the Mesilla Valley Mall.
And one artifact came with it during the move. The nature center from the old location is now at the new one.
This facility here is twice as big as it was at the mall. And we're really able to focus on things that are specific to this region of southern New Mexico.
And with all that new space, the museum has added a space exhibit and prehistoric track ways exhibit.
The trackways were lifted directly from the Robledo Mountains and show fossilized tracks from whatever animals walked across at the time.
Also at the museum is a cast of a Tyrannosaurus Rex named 'Stan.' Stan was found in South Dakota, but dinosaur bones have been found all across New Mexico.
But Kim says that may not be the first thing you see.
When you walk in the front door, first thing you see is this mural with the track ways and it's fantastic. It's an amazing suite of fossil footprints of several different animals -- not just one. It's a snapshot in time, a single moment of a whole bunch of animals walking right here when this was a seashore.
The new museum of nature and science connects to the museum of art, so visitors can walk between the two. Richard Quick sums up what he wants the new museum to do.
It shows everything about this area... what has been, what is now and what will be, said Quick.
Sloan Patton reported this story.
Haunted Places in New Mexico 2
Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Las Cruces, and more! This is the second time we've covered the top 10 most haunted places in New Mexico... and with good reason. The Land of Enchantment is chalk full of creepy houses, spooky old inns, and ancient apparitions. Are there any haunts near you? Enjoy!
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Discover the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces
Would you be surprised to learn that New Mexico has a rich agricultural heritage? The New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, a state-operated museum located in Las Cruces, tells the story of agriculture from 800 years ago when Native Americans planted corn, squash and beans to today's agribusinesses and family farms. When you plan your visit to Las Cruces, you'll want to explore this museum, both inside - where you can see art and other exhibits and outside - where you can meet cattle and other livestock face to face!
This podcast was sponsored by the Las Cruces Convention and Visitors Bureau and produced by Explore! New Mexico. Learn more about Explore! New Mexico at explorenewmexico.biz.
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Day Trips From Las Cruces
Las Cruces Snow Feb 2, 2011
Las Cruces snow storm on Feb. 2, 2011
Aerial Tribute to Las Cruces, NM
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Living Here - Deming Luna Mimbres Museum
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In & Around Las Cruces, NM
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The Santa Fe Railway in New Mexico
Take a tour of Jim Kleeman's HO scale railroad, set in 1994 New Mexico, with bluffs and mesas providing a backdrop to fast Santa Fe intermodals, grain facility locals, and short line operations.
Las Cruces Museum of Nature and Science
Las Cruces Museum of Nature and Science
Cultural Center Captures Las Cruces History
12.15.11 (LAS CRUCES) -- There is a lot of rich history along the Rio Grande and one of the few places capturing the stories of the people and events that helped shape the area is the Branigan Cultural Center.
Las Cruces has been home for many people including Branigan Cultural Center's Rebecca Slaughter who helped put together an exhibit showcasing the area's history.
It goes from when there was settlement in Las Cruces and Dona Ana to World War II and it just talks about the people and the places and the importance of the things that we can find here in Las Cruces, said Slaughter.
The exhibit is called Crossroads of History, and highlights the Camino Real and shows people exactly how Las Cruces became a city.
It was developed as a comprehensive exhibit of the regional history. It's the most comprehensive of its type in the region, she said.
The exhibit gives people a glimpse into the railroad era and its impact on today's community.
The coming of the railroad really changed the area because before then people went to Mesilla, it was the place to go here and then when the railroad wanted to come south, Mesilla really didn't want the railroad because they had the stage coach and they thought that was enough so, the railroad came here and totally changed the dynamics of Las Cruces, she said.
The exhibit is on-going and curators say some of the artifacts change from time to time to help improve the learning experience.
It really is a place where people come and go and come and stay and then we have people who grew up in Las Cruces, go to NMSU and then move on and go on to other places, she said.
Reported by Carlos Correa