Las Vegas, New Mexico KOA Journey

To Watrous

Starts: 12/31/2024 - Ends: 09/30/2024

From La Cueva Raspberry Farm take Route 518 south about three miles to Buena Vista and turn left onto Highway 161.  This stretch of road is part of the Santa Fe Trail National Scenic By-way.   From mile marker 2 on to about mile marker 17 “dramatic wagon trail swales and ravines” are visible on the north side of the road.  Midway between mile marker 14 and 15 an unmarked County road goes a little over a mile to the site of the settlement of Loma Parda.  It earned a notorious reputation as the “entertainment center” for Fort Union troops, and admittedly others, but being an easy horseback ride from Fort Union, it owed its then prosperity to the Fort.  At mile marker 19 the road passes a few hundred yards southwest of the site of Fort Barclay built where the Mountain Route crossed the Mora River.  Route 161 continues through the town of Watrous and leads directly to Ft Union National Monument.

Tri County Farmers Market

Starts: 11/30/2024 - Ends: 11/30/2024