Sumner Lake State Park, Fort Sumner NM
Morning at Site 34, Sumner Lake State Park, Fort Sumner NM, November 2, 2011
Situated 16 miles north west of Fort Sumner NM off US 84, Sumner Lake State Park is a good sized park with several campgrounds set around the dam. Sumner Lake State Park offers many activities, such as camping, hiking, swimming, wildlife viewing and fishing. The lake is home for many warm water species including walleye, bass, crappie, and channel catfish.
Sumner Lake State Park, Fort Sumner NM
- Verizon cell phone service - fairly good signal
- No Verizon EVDO service - connection is very slow.
- Go to Sumner Lake State Park website
- Go to Sumner Lake State Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Nights I've camped here
- Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - Sumner Lake State Park, Fort Sumner NM
- Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - Sumner Lake State Park, Fort Sumner NM
- Thursday, November 3, 2011 - Sumner Lake State Park, Fort Sumner NM
- Friday, November 4, 2011 - Sumner Lake State Park, Fort Sumner NM
- Saturday, November 5, 2011 - Sumner Lake State Park, Fort Sumner NM
- Sunday, November 6, 2011 - Sumner Lake State Park, Fort Sumner NM
The Heliograph in the Apache Wars
"The mountains and the sun...were made his allies, the eyes of his command, and the carriers of swift messages. By a system of heliograph signals, communications were sent with almost incredible swiftness; in one instance a message traveled seven hundred miles in four hours. The messages, flashed by mirrors from peak to peak of the mountains, disheartened the Indians as they crept stealthily or rode swiftly through the valleys, assuring them that all their arts and craft had not availed to conceal their trails, that troops were pursuing them and others awaiting them. The telescopes of the Signal Corps, who garrisoned the rudely built but impregnable works on the mountains, permitted no movement by day, no cloud of dust even in the valleys below to escape attention. Little wonder that the Indians thought that the powers of the unseen world were confederated against them."