High Lonesome, New Mexico

This panorama is a view from the north side of NM 70. Here the High Lonesome site looks off to the Pecos River Valley--it's an example of the high plains of New Mexico. The place name High Lonesome is found in 14 of New Mexico's 33 counties. But this particular place, about 20 miles northeast of Roswell, is truly high and truly lonesome. Only foundations remain in 1998 of the trading post once located here. Now antenna farms dot the plain.