RED HOT

CHILI CHAPTER RALLY

SEPTEMBER 29 TO OCTOBER 2, 2005

VALLEY OF FIRES NATIONAL RECREATION AREA

US 380, 4 miles West of Carrizozo, New Mexico
WagonMasters Cindy and Carl Johnson

and Shirley and Norm Partch

 

Come stay next to the awesome Malpais Lava Flow, one of the youngest lava flows in the continental United States.  The hardened lava flow features harsh but beautiful landscape, preserved in many forms of rolled lava beds.

 

Happy Hour launches the rally Thursday, the 29th, then plan to take part in a great potluck dinner that night.

 

Campsite Fees (Before Discounts - Golden Age / Access / Eagle Passes): Water and Electrical Hook-up $18 per day, Water only $12 per day.  Groceries, gas stations, and restaurants just 4 miles away.

 

Please click here for a Pre-Registration Form.

 

 

RALLY ACTIVITIES NOT TO BE MISSED

 

Tour to Trinity Site:  Trinity is open to the public just two times a year, is a National Historic Landmark and the site of the atomic bomb test on July 16, 1945.

 

Johnson Stearns: Local Historian

 

Malpais Nature Trail: Paved, fully accessible trail across the former rolling, burning hot lava bed.

 

LOCAL SITES

 

Valley of Fires National Recreation Area

 

Trinity Test Site, White Sands Missle Range (WSMR)

 

White Oaks Ghost Town

 

Ancho "My House of Old Things"

 

Fort Stanton

 

Three Rivers Petroglyphs

 

Carrizozo Heritage Museum

 

Sierra Blanca Brewery

 

Smokey Bear Museum

 

Wildlands Firefighters Museum

 

White Sands National Monument (West of Alamogordo)

 

SEE "ON THE WAY TO" OR "AWAY FROM" THE RALLY

 

Bosque Del Apache Wildlife Refuge

 

VLA - Very Large Array

 

Roswell:  UFO Museum

 

Ruidoso: Museum of the Horse, Inn of the Gods Casino, Behr's Fleamarket

 

Cloudcroft

 

Lincoln:  Billy the Kid's Escape from Sheriff Pat Garrett's jail.  Note that the cemetery east of Lincoln on the north side of US 70 has one stone marker with the note that he was Billy the Kid's childhood friend.

 


THE CHILI CHAPTER
Escapees RV Club - Chapter 23 
P.O. Box 138
Lakewood, New Mexico 88254
Voice Mail 1-888-757-7701x8023

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