Luna County, New Mexico

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• Cookes Peak — Geology · Luna County, NM

  Prominent 8,400-ft granite peak of the Cookes Range Wilderness Study Area north of Deming—a landmark of the southern New Mexico desert skyline and a strenuou…

• Fort Cummings — Historic · Luna County, NM

  U.S. Army post (1863–1873, later reoccupations) guarding Cooke's Spring and the Butterfield Overland Mail route at the foot of Cookes Peak. Adobe wall remnan…

• Pancho Villa State Park — Historic · Luna County, NM

  Border-town state park in Columbus preserving Camp Furlong remnants and the National Historic Landmark story of Pancho Villa’s 9 March 1916 raid—the last maj…

• Rockhound State Park — Geology · Luna County, NM

  First U.S. state park to allow personal rock collecting—up to 15 lb per visitor of quartz, jasper, geodes, thunder eggs, and other minerals from Tertiary vol…