New Mexico Links to Other Great Web Sites

Updated to May 10, 1999

Ghost Towns and Other Little-Known Places in New Mexico
A glowing collection of impressions and photos of New Mexico with information as to how to reach each and what to expect when you visit. Includes QVTR movies and virtual tours. Highly recommended! Visit this home page, now hosted by VIVA in Albuquerque. Open Directory Project
A comprehensive searchable directory of the web using volunteer human editors. Many thousands New Mexico entries with easy-to-use search. (Why not volunteer your help as an editor?)

USGS National Mapping Information
Find information about any feature such as a place name and display a downloadable map of that feature with latitude and longitude grid lines. Uses the TIGER map maker.

Weather information for New Mexico from 25 climate stations
An archive of weather data from the New Mexico Climate Center website.

Aerial photos and satellite images you can view and purchase
Did you ever wonder what your neighborhood looked like from space or wished you could get an aerial shot of your favorite vacation spot? Here's one of the Web's most engaging sites.

American Indian information
Located in Farmington, with links to many other Indian-oriented sites.

Ghost Towns
Ghost town information from 12-western states. Here's a new site established in 1998 seeking your help in building an area-wide collection.

Southwestern Greetings
A new site in 1998 including clip art for web pages, photographs, postcards, and NMMAG Online.

Southern New Mexico Online Magazine
Published monthly, with articles, photographs, sketches. Presented nicely with doses of humor and wit.

Laurie Sheffield's Alamo 5
Recipes, picture galleries, space information, and opinions about "the wolf". Beautifully done personal home page.

Search Engines

Some Ghost Town Links

The Mining Company, Albuquerque
The Mining Company site includes many links to New Mexico town and cities. Below are some selected links courtesy of the Mining Co.

Alma
Catron County, north of Silver City. Basic stats, such as population, latitude, longitude, and elevation. From Karen Strom.

Chloride
A historic town with three names, originally a tent city for silver miners. From Sierra County.

Columbus
Brief history and overview of Columbus with old photos. From Ben and Kristen de Groot.

Columbus State Park
See botanical gardens and historical exhibits on the Mexican border. From NM Energy, Minerals & Natural Resources.

Columbus State Park
History of the park and town of Columbus, by Betty Reynolds.

"New" Hachita
Once a railway junction with thriving population of 200. The current town of Hachita. From Ben and Kristen de Groot.

"Old" Hachita and its mines
Now uninhabited, remote, desolate and, of course, haunted. From Ben and Kristen de Groot.

Hermosa
"Beautiful" town founded by miners in 1883. From Sierra County.

Hillsboro
This former mining town is still alive and well and still with ruins to view. From Ben and Kristen de Groot.

Hillsboro
Built by prospectors during a gold strike. From Sierra County.

Kelly
Socorro County, west of Socorro. Basic stats, population, latitude, longitude, and elevation. From Karen Strom.

Kingston
The mining town went from zero population to over 1800 souls in 6 months. From Ben and Kristen de Groot.

Kingston
An infamous wild-west mining town. From Sierra County.

Lake Valley
Three photos of old buildings. From Ben and Kristen de Groot.

Lake Valley
This mining town moved several times, following rich strikes of silver ore. From Sierra County.

Magdalena
New page July, 1998 includes a virtual tour of the Magdalena. By the Chamber of Commerce.

Mogollon Statistics
Catron County, north of Silver City. Basic stats, including population, latitude, longitude and elevation. From Karen Strom.

Piños Altos
Great photo of the opera house. From Ben and Kristen de Groot.

Raton
Information and details about Raton with photographs.

Riley
Socorro County, west of Socorro. Basic stats, including population, latitude, longitude and elevation. From Karen Strom.

Shakespeare and Steins
Interesting information and photos of these museums and ghost towns. From the Lordsburg Chamber of Commerce.

Shakespeare Events
Good descriptions of Shakespeare historical re-enactments.

Shakespeare History
Good history: mining, cooking, outlaws, and finally a fire.

Shakespeare Location
How to get there with maps. Includes list and mileages of area attractions.

Shakespeare on Screen
Photos and movie/tv history of this museum/ghost town.

Shakespeare Tour
Description of the guided tour including information and photos of old buildings.

Sierra County
Good list with brief information on ghost towns, mining camps, and other interesting sites. From Sierra County.

Winston
In the 1880s, Winston was a cultural Mecca for the surrounding mining communities. From Sierra County homepage.

New Mexico State Department of Tourism
Offers free vacation guide with highway map and much information about our State.

New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Located in Socorro.




Some useful commercial-type links


New Mexico Central Reservations
One-stop resource for travel and lodging information in New Mexico--airline tickets, rental cards, travel packages.

Southwest Adventure Tours.
Blending southwest New Mexico with northwest Chihuahua, Mexico.

New Mexico Interwest Connections
Books, magazines, software and gifts. Links to many sources of information.

New Mexico sources
Ski conditions, top stories, new media connections for New Mexico.

New Mexico net
Over 750 links with an useful search facility.

New Mexico guide
On-line guide to web sites of businesses in New Mexico. Includes hotels, motels, other accomdations.



And some local area sites


Southeastern New Mexico Audubon Society.
Roswell chapter of the National Audubon Society. Much useful information about New Mexico birds.

Alamogordo Area
Official web site of Alamogordo.

Roswell.net
From the UFO Capitol of the World, includes area attractions, economy, education, UFO site links.

Ruidoso.net
Ruidoso area attractions including outdoor recreation, artist and gallery information, and much more by the Ruidoso Chamber of Commerce.

Roswell Online
Roswell information--community, a better life, leisure time, and including shopping opportunities.

White Sands National Monument
Near Alamogordo. Much information prepared by the National Parks Service about this area attraction, including fees, Visitor's Center, hours of operations, and others.