Ruidosa or Riodosa or Ruidoso......
- Pronunciation & Spelling Challenges for a New Mexico Town
Ruidosa, New Mexico is located in the Rocky Mountains of southern New Mexico. At Sierra Blanca, just west of Ruidosa, is the nations most southern major ski resort, Ski Apache. Sierra Blanca peak is 12,003 feet (originally known as Baldy), towers above the surrounding country and owned by the nearby Mescalero Indians.
Ruidosa weather is mild and great for outdoor activities including camping, hiking and bicycling in the Lincoln National Forest.
One of New Mexico's favorite resort destinations, Ruidoso ( correctly spelled ) has become also become a rapid growth real estate market - but still in a rural mountain setting. See Ruidosa article in El Paso Times.com
Ruidosa is a unique village and a mountain town at 7,000 feet elevation, it is located on U.S. Highway 70. The population numbers about 8,000, more on weekends in the winter when skiers come to town, and up to twenty-five or thirty thousand on summer weekends during horse racing season.
The cool pines and summer showers bid welcome to lowland residents who come to escape the heat, many from Texas. Texas twang and Texas license plates abound on the streets of Ruidosa. The jet planes that are parked at the Sierra Blanca Airport, built in 1986 on the Fort Stanton Mesa, also have Texas as a home base.
Often spelled Riodoso, or Riadoso - and pronounced with a southern twang, the village has a variety of older mountain style of architecture.
One of Ruidoso's historic buildings is the Old Mill, originally known as Dowlin's Mill, as that was the name of the settlement. The mill is a famous landmark on Sudderth Drive dating from Civil War days. Other buildings along this six-mile main street are of varied and eclectic architecture, some painted in eye-catching lavenders, yellows, and turquoises or left in rustic wood exteriors.
Nearby points of interest include the Inn of the Mountain Gods and the Mescalero Indian Reservation, the historic town of Lincoln, Capitan, home of Smokey the Bear; the Merchant Marine and Military Cemetery at Ft. Stanton, Spencer Theater, White Sands National Monument, Alamogordo Space Center; and Sunspot, home of the largest observatory in the world.
Ruidosa New Mexico article - from El Paso Southwest.com
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