Christmas In Cloudcroft New Mexico
I am in absolute heaven living in my beloved Cloudcroft. The best place to spend Christmas is in this snowy, beautiful patch of heaven on earth. I know how much people, who love Cloudcroft as much as I do, miss being up here, so thought I'd make this little video for the ones who couldn't come up. I well remember fairly recent Christmases when I couldn't come, due to family obligations, so Christmas was horrid: filthy air pollution infesting my lungs, my mother hospitalized at Christmas suffering from non-smokers lung cancer or some other ailment, or getting the flu thanks to the hundreds of thousands of people in the city and the bad air. Cloudcroft's air has some kind of natural medical balm, plus very few people live up here, it's a tiny village, so there are far less germs and no air pollution - watch the sky in the video.
We had some snow Christmas Eve, but not anywhere near the amount of snow we got last Christmas Day. Travel on the roads is easy, especially with four wheel drive on the gravel roads.
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Ski Cloudcroft (off Season)
Randomly flying around Cloudcroft Ski resort in the off season
Scenic Drive from Alamogordo to Cloudcroft New Mexico on Highway 82 with Fall Colors
I take the scenic drive from Alamogordo, where I shop, up Hwy 82 to Cloudcroft, then travel along Highway 130 dotted with Fall foliage. The terrain changes in the 16 mile ascent from desert to alpine, and from no hint of Fall in the desert to Fall colors at the mountain summit.
We gain 4,300 ft of elevation on this 16 mile ascent. Alamogordo is high desert at 4300 ft elevation. Cloudcroft is 8668 ft high, while Ski Cloudcroft tops at 9100 ft. As one ascends Highway 82, ones' ears pop, due to the air pressure decreasing the higher one climbs.
This drive is like traveling north a thousand miles in only sixteen. That's one of the advantages of Cloudcroft over living in northern areas. Here, if one wishes a drastic change of scene, warmer weather, desert sands, it's only 16 miles away. Quite unlike the years I lived in London, when I saw desert sand again only when we'd travel to Cairo or Jerusalem, 3000 miles away.
Cloudcroft is, literally, in the clouds on this day. Not unusual. Cloudcroft was named by a Scotsman working for the railroad company. Therefore, I include bag pipes and Scots music as we approach the Tunnel. I wish I could capture the splendid scent of Cloudcroft too. Clean, fresh, lovely.
I include music I like. In some portions, all along the drive, I include informational captions too. I don't know what kind of dash cam I'm using. It was one of the gadgets of the truck I recently bought. Had fun playing with it for the first time with this video.
Music includes:
Prince Igor Polovetsian Dances (Borodin), performed by MIT Symphony Orchestra. From the Free Music Archive.
Licensed with permission.
Tubing Cloudcroft
The wife took the kids to Cloudcroft, New Mexico to visit her parents between Christmas and New Years. These are a few of their misadventures.
Breaktime - Silent Film Light by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (
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Cloudcroft NM road trip #4
Cloudcroft road trip #4
Cloudcroft New Mexico Apache Reservation
Cloudcroft New Mexico im Gebiet der Mescalero Apache Reservation.
Road trip to Cloudcroft NM, Sunspot NM & Ski Apache
We go on a road trip from Alamogordo to Cloudcroft New Mexico. On the way we stop by the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot NM, we drive to the Ski Apache in Alto NM, and stop by Smokey Bear Historical Park in Capitan NM.
Here are the places we stopped by on this road trip:
- Tunnel Vista Observation Site on US 82
- Mexican Canyon Railway Trestle, Cloudcroft NM
- National Solar Observatory, Sunspot NM
- Lunch in Cloudcroft NM
- Windy Point Vista on NM route 532
- Ski Apache, Alto NM
- Smokey Bear Historical Park, Capitan NM
The idea for this road trip came from the book Most Scenic Drives in America. This is Drive 52 from the book: New Mexico’s Scenic South. We have had the book for many years and have done multiple itineraries from the book and have never been disappointed. It even survived downsizing from 4-bed house to a 21ft travel trailer :) Check it out here:
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Filmed in November 2018.
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Pioneer Village - Cloudcroft, New Mexico
Pioneer Village - Cloudcroft, New Mexico. While in Cloudcroft, New Mexico we visited the Sacramento Mountains Museum as well as the Pioneer Village located at the same location.
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Christmas in cloudcroft
2016 Xmas trip
New Mexico State Highway 244 (From Cloudcroft to US 70)
GoPro video of my drive from Cloudcroft to US Highway 70 in the Sacramento Mountains of New Mexico on New Mexico State Highway 244. Footage shot with a GoPro Hero 3 White.
Wild Horses - Cloudcroft, New Mexico
Video clips of wild horses in Zinker Canyon during my hunting trip to Cloudcroft, New Mexico. The horses came off the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation and live on the edge of the Lincoln National Forest. I was fortunate enough to get some video of them this trip. The stallion is so beautiful!
Sledding in Cloudcroft Christmas 2013
Sledding in Cloudcroft Christmas 2013
Cloudcroft, NM 2015 Christmas
I spent my 2015 Christmas in Cloudcroft, NM. I had the most amazing time. I had never seen sheets of snow before. The mountains and forest were so beautiful. We stayed up in the hills at Lincoln National Forest and it was unbelievable.
Cloudcroft NM Vlog
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Cloudcroft Snow Camping
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Bad Ass Mountain Music Festival, Cloudcroft, New Mexico
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The History Of Cloudcroft, New Mexico
Cloudcroft, New Mexico is a small mountain village in the southern part of the state. Here is the story of why the village was started.
Camp@Cloudcroft Review
Campground review of Camp@Cloudcroft.
Cloudcroft, NM - 2013 Finalist Most Beautiful
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Fishing in Cloudcroft, New Mexico
Fishing in Cloudcroft, New Mexico. I did finally find some cooler temps. And a very nice place to fish. I am a single woman starting the process of becoming a full time RVer in a truck camper. Reducing my material items, becoming a minimalist. This is my journey of that process along with my travels as a solo woman RVer. It is a challenge to reduce all material possessions in a 2500 square foot house to moving into a tiny home, that being a tiny house on wheels. I travel in a 2007 S&S Montana Ponderosa truck camper. My truck is a Dodge RAM dually.
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