External LinksAdd External Links text here. There are two designated Wilderness Study Areas (Robledo and Las Uvas) within the range where tighter restrictions apply. Exploring Slot Canyon in Radium Springs, NM The Family Life Outdoors 44 subscribers Subscribe 2.7K views 3 years ago Today we drove North from El Paso to Radium Springs, NM. The range can be accessed anywhere along Faulkner Canyon. The public schools in Radium Springs are above average. Many retirees live in Radium Springs and residents tend to lean conservative.
Living in Radium Springs offers residents a suburban rural mix feel and most residents own their homes. Faulkner Canyon Road is passable for a quite a ways in a low clearance vehicle, but eventually gets pretty rough. Radium Springs is a town in New Mexico with a population of 1,991. 1.7 miles after turning north on 185 turn left on Faulkner Canyon Rd. Turn right at the 'T' onto NM 185 and head north through the small settlement of Radium Springs. Head weat on NM 157 for 1.6 miles until reaching a 'T'. One of the primary entrance points to the range can be found by exiting I-25 at Radium Springs (exit #19). Getting ThereThere are no established trail heads in the Robledo Mountains.
These early reptiles preceded the Triassic period (early mammals) and the Jurassic period (age of dinosaurs). The monumental Trackway find can be attributed to the perseverance of one man, JERRY MACDONALD, who as a geology student at NMSU made the discovery and spent 8 years of his life dedicated to the excavation & research of the creatures that lived along the tropical shores of the great Southwest Ocean 50 million years before dinosaurs roamed the land. Fossils found here are remarkable - containing the most abundant and diverse assemblage of terrestrial trace fossils in the world. Las Cruces teemed with reptiles and amphibians, whose stories are told in the abundant scattering of fossils in the Robledo Hills. When the sea retreated, it left behind many fossils. Trackway excavated from the Robledo find are on display at the Natural History Museum at the Smithsonian Institute, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.Ħ00 million years ago, Southern New Mexico was covered by a great inland sea. The perfectly preserved Permian period Pelycosaur vertebrate Trackway (a line of tracks)- 280 million years old is among the oldest finds in the world and one of the most significant discoveries in North America. From about mid-March to mid-October the park is also a venue for fishing, canoeing, and kayaking in the Rio Grande.Robledo TrackwayThe Robledo Mountains contain high limestone peaks, deep canyons, sprawling caves, streams, and significant prehistoric archeological sites. Leasburg Dam State Park offers year-round camping, picnicking, and bird watching. Constructed in 1908, it is one of the oldest diversion dams in New Mexico which was constructed not to hold back the flow of the Rio Grande river, but to instead divert it into a system of canals for use by nearby farms. It flourished for almost 50 years, then fell from favor, and was even once used as a women's prison and also an art center.Īnother unique feature of Radium Springs is the Leasburg Dam. It attracted many people who felt the water was beneficial for arthritis, nerve problems and many other diseases. It was when the post office was established, that a mineral analysis of the water was performed and showed enough "millimicrocuries" of radium per liter of water that the town could use the word "radium" in its name! In the 1920s the Radium Springs Resort Hotel was built with bathhouses connected to the wells. The community owes its name to the free-slowing mineral hot springs that were often frequented by soldiers from nearby Fort Selden. The small town of Radium Springs is located on NM 185 west of the Rio Grande and across from Fort Selden State Monument and the ruins of a 19th-century army outpost Fort Selden. Known for its rich history, early settlers once used this area as a passage to Jornada del Muerto. Until a post office was established in 1926, Radium Springs had been known as Fort Selden Springs, named for nearby Fort Selden.
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