Driving Around Cloudcroft New Mexico in Autumn with Fall Colors in the Sacramento Mountains
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- Autumn Fall Colors are beautiful in Cloudcroft, so I drove around to capture the Fall leaves before they drop. At the end of the video I briefly take you to Bigfoot trail, and down near White Sands National Monument. I include information about Cloudcroft in captions all along the video, as well as music I like.
I don't know what kind of dash cam I'm using. It was one of the gadgets that came with my new truck. I'm having fun playing with it though. Hope you enjoy a virtual tour.
For any viewing who don't know, Cloudcroft is a tiny village 9000 feet high in the Sacramento Mountains of New Mexico. It is an oasis surrounded by the vast desert below. Alamogordo is the desert city at the base of the mountains. White Sands National Monument is close by, down in the desert.
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Pirouette by Asher Fulero
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Requiem in Cello by Hanu Dixit
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English Country Garden by Aaron Kenny
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C Major Prelude by Bach
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Morning Mood by Grieg
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We loved the bowling alley! They should bring one back - with human pin setters and all!
I'd love it if they would!
Loved growing up there as a kid! Such a beautiful place!
Wow, are you blessed to have grown up in Cloudcroft! I adored coming up here as a child so much that even as a child, I always said that someday I would live up here all the time. I hope you return here often.
Stayed at Spruce Cabins many times over the past 50 years or so...
Nice
Very beautiful in Cloudcroft, have passed through a few times, think I will stop for awhile next time. I'm not a city slicker, love country living. See you soon! Thank you for making the video.
Thank you Leliu. The weather is gorgeous right now.
@@DesertRatGardener once they allow us out of state folks back in I would come visit.
Love the video! After sitting around for the last 8 months, it's nice to see a place that I love. Have spend many a vacation camping or staying in cabins in Cloudcroft. It's been several years since I've been, but it's one of the places I'm planning on visiting as soon as our country get's back to normal.
I'm so glad you enjoy the video. It's my little love letter to this splendid heaven-on-earth that we all love. Pat I hope you do come visit. It's been several years? That's too long. Thankfully, vaccines are on the way and we will be back to normal soon.
With Billy Isidore at Camp Sun Shine on Sacramento Mountain
We loved our time visiting Cloudcroft in November. It was so beautiful & Mad Jack’s bbq is amazing - we just posted the video from our visit on our channel.
I'll go watch your video! It is beautiful up here and yes, Mad Jack's is great bbq.
very lovely music
Thank you.
In the early to mid 1970’s I would rent a horse for $3 an hour and ride it back to our cabin on Balsam Lane then ride up the valley before it became Woodlands Way. Then down Columbine Blvd to Chautauqua Canyon Blvd and head back to the stables. It took me weeks to save up my allowance for a one hour ride. That was a lot of money back then!
Yes it was! How wonderful you got to ride the horses around Cloudcroft too. I usually rode the trail, but occasionally I'd take the horse around Cloudcroft, up Wren to The Lodge, then back down to the stables. The horse riding stables were a huge and very popular activity in Cloudcroft for over 80 years. I'd love to see horse riding stables return. I like the throw back in time, simple life ambience.
Me too, in the 70's. My Dad was stationed at Holloman. I would go up there a lot and ride from the early to mid 70's. A horse named Cowboy was my favorite, he was very fast, and a little crazy...
@@DesertRatGardener Are there now no horses in Cloudcroft? If so, that's very sad. I remember the three stables - Talley (Tally?) is the only name I remember, b/c Billy and I exchanged kisses one summer (my very first!). No restrictions back then - we road all over the mountain with Rita Horton. Going to the trestle was fun. Also the trail rides at night. Riding to a big campfire, then riding home in the dark. Shorty was the only horse I wanted to ride. Oh, the memories.
@@54jag All the horse riding stables were closed down sometime in the 1980s. Ridiculous reason too - some new city slicker small business people not from this area of the country found Cloudcroft, moved here, brought their little shops to Burro street, which was gravel, and proceeded to start a whispering campaign about the horses smelling and the dusty roads.
Some other city slickers who'd moved to Cloudcroft chimed in. Before you knew it, they got an ordinance or something passed forbidding horse riding stables within the village. Stupidest thing because horse back riding was very popular for over 80 years.
Then they campaigned to pave Burro, which eventually happened. I thought that was terrible too. I liked the gravel, the rails to throw your reins on, walk into a store, go out and get on the horse, ride off. What that couple did was come here not knowing a thing about Cloudcroft and use it for their little shops, change it so it didn't have horse flies and horse manure and gravel in the streets like the old west teeny little village it was. Lord forbid dust come onto their shop floors and they have to sweep.
Thankfully, the man's now dead and the woman's old and moved off the mountain. If someone else has a plan for horse stables, they'd have to get the village council to change the ordinance to allow it. I hope that occurs. Nothing gets people up here to visit like the horse riding and old west charm, not tourist trap trinket shops. They can find that in Ruidoso.
The outrage over the city slickers trying to 'civilize' Cloudcroft resulted in them changing the ordinance to allow a horse drawn riding cart. That was popular, though not the same. The man who owned that had hay on the cart and drove his horses pulling the cart around the village. People paid to take a ride on his cart.
Sadly, after awhile there was a bad accident with his horses (off duty, no human hurt). He didn't have the money to recuperate and so his business ended (he went into auctioneering instead, still lives up here, nice man.)
So, regarding horses in the village, we do have a few horses back in the village again in the last year. They are feral horses who have wandered off the Apache reservation. One mother and her child. Then more horses showed up. They belong to the Apaches. These horses don't care about ordinances and if the Apaches don't round them up, no one can prevent the horses from entering the village unless the village was fenced in (which it isn't and won't be) since New Mexico is an open range State.
@@DesertRatGardener I agree with everything you wrote. It's sad when newcomers take a unique western village and turn it into the same kind of place you can see in any tourist trap town. In Cloudcroft, going back to the old days would be an improvement. Very sad it's now just like any other mountain town. :(
Very nice Video, Thanks. Very informative.
Thank you.