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Caballo Lake State Park, Caballo NM

Morning along the Rio Grande, Caballo Lake State Park, Caballo NM, April 24, 2012
Morning along the Rio Grande, Caballo Lake State Park, Caballo NM, April 24, 2012

Caballo Lake State Park is located on the shores of Caballo Reservoir about 20 miles south of Truth or Consequences NM. This park offers quiet camping along the Rio Grande River below the dam as well as developed full service camping and boating along the lake.

Caballo Lake State Park, Caballo NM

Nights I've camped here

They do not Intrude on Each Other

The San Francisco Mountain lies in northern Arizona, above Flagstaff, and its blue slopes and snowy summit entice the eye for a hundred miles across the desert. About its base lie the pine forests of the Navajos, where the great red-trunked trees live out their peaceful centuries in that sparkling air. The pinons and scrub begin only where the forest ends, where the country breaks into open, stony clearings and the surface of the earth cracks into deep canyons. The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do not intrude on each other. ...

The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather, p265, Houghton Mifflin Co paperback edition 1987

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