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Wildlife Area Attractions In Taos County

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Taos County is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2010 census, the population was 32,937. Its county seat is Taos. The county was formed in 1852 as one of the original nine counties in New Mexico Territory.Taos County comprises the Taos, NM Micropolitan Statistical Area.
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  • 1. Wild Rivers Recreation Area Taos
    The Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River was established in 1968 to protect 55.7 miles of the Rio Grande river in New Mexico. In 1978, an additional 191.2 miles of the river in Texas was added followed by 12.5 miles in New Mexico in 1994. The Wild and Scenic River in New Mexico runs from the New Mexico/Colorado border approximately 68 miles south. The lower 4 miles of the Red River, a tributary of the Rio Grande in Taos County, New Mexico, was also added to the Wild and Scenic River System. The two rivers intersect in the Wild Rivers Recreation Area Approximately 69 miles of the Wild and Scenic River in Texas is within Big Bend National Park; the remainder is downstream of Big Bend. Three rugged canyons are preserved under this designation. Boquillas Canyon is the most accessible, as it can be...
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  • 2. Wheeler Peak Wilderness Taos County
    Wheeler Peak is the highest natural point in the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is located northeast of Taos and south of Red River in the northern part of the state, and just 2 miles southeast of the ski slopes of Taos Ski Valley. It lies in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the southernmost subrange of the Rocky Mountains. The peak's elevation is 13,167 feet . Formerly named Taos Peak, after the nearby town of Taos, New Mexico, it was renamed Wheeler Peak in 1950. A plaque at the summit states that the mountain was: Named in honor of Major George Montague Wheeler who for ten years led a party of surveyors and naturalists collecting geologic, biologic, planimetric and topographic data in New Mexico and six other southwestern states.
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