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Southeast
Carlsbad, Roswell and Alamogordo open onto underground chambers, unusual museums and white gypsum dunes.
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Southeast, a little closer.
Carlsbad, Roswell and Alamogordo open onto underground chambers, unusual museums and white gypsum dunes. Build separate travel days around these distant bases.
Highlighted counties locate these featured towns. These six WTDO discovery areas are editorial groupings. Markers indicate approximate town centers, not entrances or driving routes. Select a town to open its guide. County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau.
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Photo credits & visitor sources
Real New Mexico photographs. Photo dates vary; images illustrate places, not current weather or operating conditions.
- Big Room, Carlsbad Cavern (51202438416).jpg — CarlsbadCavernsNPS. Big Room, Carlsbad Cavern Public domain. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- A colorful, though otherworldly, couple in Roswell, a small city in the southeast corner of New Mexico that lacked much of a national identity until one day in 1947 when, believers say, an unidentified flying object, or UFO, landed in the nearby desert — Carol M. Highsmith. Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress No known restrictions on publication. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- Scene at White Sands National Park in southern New Mexico's Tularosa Basin — Carol M. Highsmith. Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress No known restrictions on publication. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
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County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb, New Mexico FIPS35. Six WTDO areas are editorial discovery groupings.