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Raton Museum

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Raton Museum
Raton Museum
Raton Museum
Raton Museum
Raton Museum
Raton Museum
Raton Museum
Raton Museum
Raton Museum
Raton Museum
Raton Museum
Raton Museum
Raton Museum
Raton Museum
Raton Museum
Raton Museum
Raton Museum
Raton Museum
Raton Museum
Raton Museum
Raton Museum
Raton Museum
Raton Museum
Raton Museum
Phone:
+1 575-445-8979

Hours:
SundayClosed
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am - 4pm
Wednesday10am - 4pm
Thursday10am - 4pm
Friday10am - 4pm
Saturday10am - 4pm


Raton Mesa is the collective name of several mesas on the eastern side of Raton Pass in New Mexico and Colorado. The name Raton Mesa or Mesas has sometimes been applied to all the mesas that extend east for 90 miles along the Colorado-New Mexico border from Raton, New Mexico and Trinidad, Colorado to the Oklahoma panhandle. These include Johnson Mesa, Mesa de Maya, and Black Mesa.The highest point of Raton Mesa, Fishers Peak, is located in Las Animas County, Colorado. The highest part of the mesa was made a National Natural Landmark in 1967. Raton mesas are volcanic in origin caused by lava flows which solidified into basalt. Over time the softer sedimentary rock surrounding the basalt eroded leaving several distinct large elevated tablelands with precipitous sides.Raton Mesa is part of the Raton Basin a coal and natural gas producing region.
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