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Ep. 127: Roswell | New Mexico RV travel camping
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ส.ค. 2024
- Roswell would be just like many other small towns in the US, were it not for an obsession with UFOs and aliens. In 1947, a US Army Air Force balloon crashed on a ranch near Roswell. Even after the US Military confirmed that it was a nuclear test surveillance balloon, conspiracy theories surrounding the event persist even today. The citizens of Roswell have nurtured a cottage industry catering to UFO tourists who travel to this southeastern New Mexico town because of what's been described as "the world's most famous, most exhaustively investigated, and most thoroughly debunked UFO claim."
We camp at the Lea Lake Campground in Bottomless Lakes State Park while visiting Roswell, including the kitchy UFO stuff and the Historical Society for Southeastern New Mexico Museum, and do a bit of kayaking on Lea Lake. But first we need to contend with some unruly campground neighbors!
Filmed: October 22-25, 2019
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* Bottomless Lakes State Park www.emnrd.state...
* Historical Society for Southeastern NM www.roswellnmhi...
* Roswell Chamber of Commerce www.roswellnm....
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Another 2 thumbs up video ... Quality content and interest always anticipated always delivered..
Thanks as always, J!
We are planning our west trip and this is a must stop for me. Thanks for this video of the park and town 🤗
I just wanted to say I have always loved your videos. We’ve been watching them for years! We actually just started a TH-cam channel, but I’ve been making videos for years. But again awesome job!!!
Thank you! We'll make sure to check out some of your production as well. Wishing you the best of success!
Finally! I am back from the holiday and watched the video! Awesome as always! Marc I hope you and Mrs. GA and all of the Grand Adventurers had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Anticipating Wednesday night so I can be back with friends on Grand Adventure.
It was terrific to have you back this week, Miss Tracy!
Thanks for the kayaking footage, Roswell museum was interesting too!
Thank you Laura!
Good video and great drone shots. I hope you are also going to take videos of other places in New Mexico. Looking forward to seeing more videos.
Thank you Sharon! We usually pass through New Mexico at least once per season. We presently have 7 videos that we've filmed in the state, and they're all in this playlist: th-cam.com/video/nUoSrssG2VQ/w-d-xo.html
Fantastic, looking forward to your next GRAND ADVENTURE
Thank you Gary! We look forward to bringing it to you.
Great vid Marc, excellent drone work bro, boy that lake was a mil pond, good fun.
Thanks so much as always!
Definitely going to take a visit on our travels. Great video, thanks! Always wanted to see.
Thank you! It's a fun little stop worthy of a few days.
Wow, just logged into the channel and this episode, what a great RV park - and great to know about the park pass you mentioned as well!
For a non-resident of NM you have to be planning on sufficient days in NM State Parks to make it worthwhile, but if you're spending a month total in NM State Parks it can save quite a bit of money.
We were there last April and got our non resident pass. Weather was nice and warm. The campground has mostly first come first served but there are some reservable. Campground filled up every evening so get there early for first come first served sites. Water and electric was $4 with pass. I road my bike to the bike trail but hiked that trail the rode back to the campground.
If you're goingto spend more than a few weeks each year in NM State Parks, the non-resident pass then makes sense. Glad you enjoyed your time there.
Thanks for the fun ride.
Thanks for coming along!
Great video! We're looking forward to getting out there sometime in the next few years!
Do it sooner rather than later. As the late ski filmmaker Warren Miller so often said, "If you don't do it now, you'll just be a year older when you do."
You'll have to teach me (Tab) how to Kayak one of these days, it looks SOOO peaceful!
You're welcome anytime! And it usually is, although I strangely like it when the water's a bit rougher and you can "surf" the chop face a bit.
Another great episode 👍
Thank you Allan!
Great episode once again! Of course the kayaking was the best part :)
It was an incredibly relaxing paddle, CTE.
One of these days you are going to take me kayaking out there!
Another grand video. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Same to you, Bill. And thank you!
What a nice museum! Great to have your kayak on board. Those raccoons were cute but sleep is even better. 🙄
It was funny, Marian. Every night the raccoons would enjoy their buffet, and every morning the rangers would come clean up the mess. It would be so easy to solve with a critter-proof dumpster.
@@GrandAdventure that is right. Animals need to remain wild. Win win.
I heard that NM Parks Permit was a really good deal. Glad you had no alien abductions, we need you to finish traveling all of America first . . . then you can travel the Galaxy. Thanks for the Adventure Marc
Thank you as always, Tony!
Well your neighbours were very interesting and didn’t Seam to bothered by your presence but obviously not ones for chatting to much 😂😂😂when you were on the lake you passed some concrete structures ? Very interesting about the UFOs but it’s nice to know nobody’s to crazy about it ! Thanks Marc
Thank you, Gavin! If you mean the structures in the lake, they're roto-molded floating docks. On shore, of course, they're concrete buildings to support the park's beach area that had just closed for the season while we were there.
That park looks like a place to really relax. I can’t believe how reasonable the rate is. We always appreciate your efforts in creating such quality content! Safe travels!
Thank you Christine, and same to you two as well!
Great video, as always
Thank you as always, William!
Marc great video. Keep up the great filming and have a Blessed Thanksgiving.
Thank you, James, and same to you and yours!
Hey Marc, congrats on almost 35K Subscribers! Say, do you have a video pertaining to "Winterizing" your trailer? Tips and Tricks? Our Airstream is winterized, but we'd still like to use it once or twice this Colorado winter...
I can’t believe how Roswell is taken over with the ufo craze. Thanks again for a tour of another cool place on your journey.
Thanks so much! It was a fun stop for sure.
Good stuff, as always!
Great info Sir.
Thank you, Gary!
Great show
Thanks as always, Spell Madam! Enjoy your T-Day and stay warm up there.
I was at Bottomless two years ago. Loved the area. Wished they had more hiking trails though. The flies were a bit much when I was there. I'll have to remember when that was. Cheers Marc.
During our late October visit, Rob, the flies were unbearable for about an hour at dusk. Otherwise they weren't bad.
Awesome post thank you for taking us along.
Thanks for coming along, Frankie!
Love all of the kitschy alien stuff! My husband has a t-shirt with 3 or 4 little aliens in UFOs and the caption is something along the lines of: “hey, let’s crash in Roswell!”
Great price on the campground - enjoyed the kayaking and your little extras “friends” - both the raccoons & aliens! 👽
Thanks so much! We truly appreciate it. The raccoons were entertaining, and the town was fun. It was a great stop.
Marc... Just wanted to wish you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving. As always, enjoyed tonight's episode very much.
Safe travels my friend and have fun always.
Randy in Des Moines. 👍🦃🍗✌
Thank you so very much, Randy. Same from us to you and yours!
Awesome! Wish you'd come out our way and do a episode...
Thanks folks! The Upper Midwest/Great Lakes region is definitely on our radar, possibly this spring.
@@GrandAdventure That would be amazing! Would love to see you around our parts!
Awesome information thanks
Thank you Robert, and thanks for watching!
@@GrandAdventure Safe travel s from Richmond Va
@@robertodell3366 same to you, sir!
Hey Marc. Glad your able to get out on kayak. You just glide along there. Looks like a great stopover spot to do some site seeing. I think you were the first that I at least I remember that did a Roswell stop and didn’t just show the alien 👽 stuff. That looked like a cool museum. Worth checking out. Enjoy 😊 stay safe... Happy Thanksgiving 🦃
That was intentional. For one thing, we really weren't interested in the cheesy alien stuff. For another, we wanted to film a different take on the area. While small, Lea Lake was indeed a very pleasant paddle, especially with no one else out there.
Grand Adventure Indeed, have you heard anything about Brantley State Park and the Lake? Looked interesting, on the way up that way from Carlsbad.
@@nonrevhogan8938 we only saw it the same way.
Grand Adventure Just wondering, the reviews seem pretty spotty. They looked better until this year. Who knows. Lake looked nice. Always like a nice lake view and being able to get out on it. Price was ok $15. The last reviews really didn’t like the bathrooms. Ha. Which is why there will be one in RV. LOl..... Thanks
Debunked claims Alien or otherwise seem to be the new normal but I digress. Great view of another place I've never been.
Ain't that the truth, Timothy. Thank you!
Thanks for giving us good places to see and stay
Appreciate you as always, Lori!
Spooky!!
Well Marc, we can always depend on you to find something worthwhile to explore! I traveled through Roswell but didn’t even see the raccoons much less any aliens..👀😱
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Good video, thank you for the tour....
Thanks for watching and commenting, Tommy!
Marc, you gotta read The Day After Roswell by Colonel Phillip Corso. You'll become a believer. Available in Audio book from Audible.
I'll definitely check it out, Tom.
Great video just wondering could you put the actual dates and weather into your videos when you were there , so we can know for future travels,
Thanks, Tina! We put the filming dates right in the description of each video. Our highs in Roswell were up and down, ranging from the 40s to the 70s.
Thanks for the videos...very interesting...wish you would reorder your all videos list to sequence in the order uploaded...right now its reverse...so kind of hard to start at the beginning and roll through...but thanks just the same...
Thanks for the suggestion, Chuck! Most folks, though, want to see the most recent videos, which is why they're ordered the way that they are. We're happy to have you no matter which order you choose!
@@GrandAdventure I get it...guess I'm the weird one...I like to watch your whole story and see how it all unfolds...in any case thanks for the reply and thanks for the nicely done, thoughtful, videos.
@@chuckhalsig4018 thanks so much!
Great video Marc
Thanks as always, bud!
Take me to your leader Marc 👽
Happy thanksgiving 🦃🍽🍁
Thanks for sharing and safe travels 👍😊🎥🚌🌎🎶😎⛰🏖
Same to you and yours, Tom!
I love your videos (& stills), I can see that you invest the time in editing to make your show visually pleasing and your scripted narration combines to make for enjoyable viewing - haven’t missed an episode! I appreciate the scene variation with drone, action-cam shots and was really impressed with your museum footage. Were you using a gimbal? What camera equipment do you have? Anyway, thanks for the great content that keeps me coming back week after week.
Thanks Douglas! The museum shots were handheld using a Sony Alpha a6500 with their 18-105 G-series lens, although we do have two gimbal cameras, a DJI Osmo+ and Osmo Pocket. Everything we use to produce Grand Adventure is included here: www.amazon.com/shop/grandadventure?listId=29P8DKMLOCJAX
Thanks so much both for watching, and for your comment!
Bummer, I missed the live premiere!
Now on demand, so maybe we'll catch you next week?
Was just passing through on the way back from Texas, RVing next time for sure, like you content keep it up. How do you like your Tundra for RVing looking to change from a Dodge to something new to go explore and RV in.
Thank you John! We love our Tundra for all but one characteristic: gas mileage. It's horrible, especially compared with domestic trucks. But its reliability and resale value more than makes up for the MPG.
Damn Mark $247 for a non resident and only 10 bucks off? For $18 I'll just pay that.
That's what we did, Bert. We'd never get our money back. But if you stay more than several weeks in a NMSP in the course of a year, it makes sense. That just wouldn't be us.
Come on now, Mark you know you were looking over your shoulders for an alien or UFO 👽🛸! LOL. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
OK, we were. 😉 Same to you!!
@@GrandAdventure Thank you very much ( I knew it)lol.We love your videos Mark, we camp as much as we can but would love to travel as you do! We have a similar rig as yours and have been to Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Zion National Park,Smokey Mtns and a few others but want to do a lot more when we can!
@@TheSunfire96 thanks so much! Just enjoy your rig on your terms. What matters is that you're having fun doing what you do, not what we do, and you've been to some pretty special places with it already.
@@GrandAdventure I agree 100% and we truly do love our adventures and doing it our way but looking forward to full time soon!! Lol. Keep your videos coming, so much info for everyone!!
I checked out you suggested mobile wifi with Verizon,.they had no idea what I was talking about ,.
They won't, because this isn't Verizon.
Thanks Marc... beautiful and humorous review. I was wondering, from the drone aerial footage, what those white dock like structures were by the landing along the lake. Do you know?
Gord
They're floating docks, Gord. We actually paddled through them in the kayak segment. The lake is small, though, so I'm not sure what they're used for in season. Rowboats? Sunfish? Not really sure.
@@GrandAdventure Yes, they looked like docks from the air... but then I thought, why so many docs for such a small lake. So I figured they were for something else. Very odd indeed...
Gord
Gorrdd for future ufo landing
@@randywilson6869 Aha... guide strips!😎
@@gorrdd I'm guessing that in season they do some sort of boat rental operation.
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The tent sites are not free mark They charge you $10 for a tent site and they don’t have any sign say saying that you have to have a reservation for the lake that you can swim in until you get up there to the lake after you already paid your money
Thanks John. This video is from a few years ago, perhaps they've changed? In any event we appreciate the update and/or clarification.
Thank you Mark just letting you know what they told me he said that they’re all cost $10 if you have a reservation you can get the ones with electric water and some even have sewer but you have to have those reserved I’m in a tent site there is a water pump here in a bathroom but there’s no electric or sewer
Just seem like to me they would post it on the sign that you do have to have a reservation for the better sites
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Thanks as always, Pops!
@@GrandAdventure 😎
I've driven my truck camper to the site of the UFO debris field near Mac Brazel's ranch NW of Roswell.
Nice! Anything there of interest?
@@GrandAdventure There is a commemorative monument there. It is in the middle of nowhere. I plan to go back. Everyone I asked in Roswell said I couldn't go there, or get anyone to take me there...which only piqued my curiosity. It's about 70 miles NW of Roswell as the crow flies. Figuring out how to get there is half the fun, so I'll leave that to you. Met an old cowboy very nearby who'd lived there his whole life...had an interesting conversation. You may recognize some nearby ranch buildings from the old photos, which let's you know you're getting close. ;)
@@tomm6663 very cool. Yep, we would've taken that as a challenge, too.
I was hoping for the theme from "The Twilight Zone" for the intro!
Would've been a great idea. Alas, that would've gotten us a TH-cam copyright flag.
any fish in that lake?
Yup. Some of the others, too, while some are too saline to support them.
Marc,
I noticed the creatures are on your left!
Gord
And elsewhere, as you will see tonight.
@@GrandAdventure Uh Oh!:)
@@GrandAdventure Ah... I missed the one on the right.
New type of drone??
@@laughingram7287 yep! 😎
U do know how to row that boat. Did u fish any or do u know if it's good fishing there (bass)
We do know that folks do indeed fish Lea Lake, but we don't know what they're catching. I've heard some folks say that they stock it with trout from the nearby hatchery in Dexter, so if I recall my fishing correctly trout and bass usually don't coexist?
Can you swim in that bottomless lake Mark
You most certainly can, John, and they even have a swimming beach set up for it. But that water is awfully chilly!
@@GrandAdventure Thank you maybe when it gets a little warmer
I do wonder what you do for Internet on the road..
Lou, we explain that all right here: th-cam.com/video/VrigHuE6igw/w-d-xo.html
#aliens
#yep
Nice camp. I was abducted last time I was there. It was a great ride.
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You have no clue about Roswell.
Steven Sapien - exactly. He literally says it’s a conspiracy theory and dismisses it all together!! Wow, in my mind that would be like saying cave dwellers with box cutters actually pulled off 9/11!! I guess the brainwashing is alive and well in so, so many folks still. UNSUBSCRIBED