High Rolls and Mountain Park

High Rolls is in Otero County on the slopes of the Sacramento Mountains, about 11 miles east of Alamogordo. It was originally named Fresnel probably because it's on the banks of Fresnel Creek so-named for ash trees (fresno in Spanish) growing on it.

Why the name was changed from Fresnel to High Rolls is unknown now.

About a mile east of High Rolls is Mountain Park founded in the 1880's by the Button Nelson, Bill Karr, and Jack Tucker families. Mountain Park takes its name from its location in a pleasant valley of the Sacramento Mountains. Today (1999), folks living in Mountain Park share a post office with those living in High Rolls.