Sunday, October 20, 2002
Santa Rosa State Park, Santa Rosa, NM - Oct 19-20
This is another pleasant, out-of-the-way park located 7 miles north of Santa Rosa. Santa Rosa's main feature is Blue Hole, an artesian spring 87 feet deep and 60 feet in diameter, where Scuba divers come from as far away as Montana to be certified. Santa Rosa sits on old Route 66, so many of the motels and restaurants are historic. The main section of road through town was completely under construction, however, so we avoided driving there. Instead, we drove out to Puerto de Luna, an abandoned Spanish settlement with an historic church, and where Coronado encamped to build a bridge across the river.
# posted by Doug and Willie @ 7:17 PM 
