Fall Colors In Beautiful Clean Air Cloudcroft vs Air Polluted Las Cruces, New Mexico
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- Cloudcroft is 9000 feet high atop of the Sacramento Mountains of New Mexico, surrounded by the desert below. While it is autumn here in the Lincoln National Forest, with beautiful changing Fall leaves, down below in the desert there is no hint of Fall, and terrible air pollution. Because I burn pecan firewood, I travel down to Las Cruces, NM to haul that back to my cabin. I went to Las Cruces three times in a week, appalled by the air pollution each time. I could see El Paso's Franklin Mountains from Las Cruces. El Paso's air pollution looked even worse. I remain grateful for the splendid heaven on earth that Cloudcroft is in the American desert southwest.
P.S. To the real estate agents angry at my pointing out the air pollution problem in Las Cruces, and in El Paso, you can go to Hell. You scum who encourage people to move to these cities - both of which are ranked as the Fourth Worst Air Pollution in the USA in 2020 for cities of their size, and have ranked in the top 10 worst polluted cities for their size in the last decade - will have a reckoning, either in this life when you or your loved ones come down with lung or heart diseases, or in the next life where you will be condemned for your deceitfulness. Save your breath with your idiotic, lying messages to me. They won't be published because my platform is for the truth, not your greed based lies to the unsuspecting public wishing to find a healthy place to live.
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Last week I went to Cloudcroft and did the Lucas Canyon Trail. It was an amazing experience.
Wonderful!
It's Juarez's Pollution you see near El Paso. Im sure EP has pollution too, I live there. But not nearly as bad as the city of Juarez next door. Gotta love Mexico's lack of combustion regulations.
It's both El Paso and Juarez contributing to the air pollution. I hate to see what has happened to my hometown. El Paso has grown so much. When I was growing up there, Yarborough was a dirt road at the end of town, and Mesa was mostly sand on both sides of it. With the 2.5 times growth in population in El Paso adds many more vehicles. Then NAFTA in the 90s led to many more big rigs coming through, with hours of idling on the bridges. All of that, plus of course Juarez, contributes to the killer air pollution.
My mother died from non smokers lung cancer, caused by the air pollution. Her doctors told us they are seeing more and more El Pasoans coming down with this.
It's so beautiful! Thank you for sharing. I'm taking us to go look at the leaves next week. Can you tell me what are good routes to take to see the leaves? So beautiful.
Go down Grand in Cloudcroft, then up Wren, past The Lodge, then go behind The Lodge and explore those lanes. I don't recall the name of one of them but I think it is called Coyote.
But really, just walk the lanes all around Cloudcroft.
Also drive Hwy 130 from Cloudcroft to Aspendale Retreat Center (about 3 miles.) Take the gravel road up the hill on your right at Aspendale sign and travel through that canyon (Pierce canyon). It’s a public road.
Also take Hwy 130 from Cloudcroft. At the Sunspot hwy, go right. Keep driving to Karr Canyon sign, on your left, about five miles. Turn out and see more leaves if that road is open. Last I passed by it, they had it locked (Covid.) But you can park and walk to look at the leaves there.
Another drive: Take Hwy 130 from Cloudcroft. At the turn for the Sunspot Hwy, take it (turn right about 2 miles from Cloudcroft.) Five miles on the Sunspot Hwy will be a little gravel road on your right (watch your odometer.) Turn right on that road. It forks immediately. Take the left and down. Keep going and you'll see lovely Fall foilage here too. At some point you can get out and walk the Rim Trail to enjoy more leaves and, at spots, spectacular vistas of our glorious Tularosa Basin and White Sands.
One more nice drive is to take Hwy 130 from Cloudcroft a little past the Forest Service building and Deerhead campground. On your left will be a paved road. Take that and go up the hill. Follow it up until you see a gravel road on your right, Forest Road 5661. Take that road. Drive along it, going higher and higher to the very top of that mountain for more spectacular scenes and beautiful leaves. All are public roads.