Location: New Mexico < USA
Nearest Airport: Albuquerque or El Paso, Tx
at 120
Miles
Nearest Motorway: Interstate 25 and NM 52
at 2
Miles
Car: recommended
If you are expecting a trendy town that has a theme park atmosphere, you will find little of that here. But if you like a unique place where residents willingly share their stories of how they landed here and why they stayed, you might end up writing a book. Unlike many places in the southwest with ideal climate (mild winters, cool summer nights) that attract only the wealthy, TrC has had a recent influx of 30-something couples that have traded their big city prof. lives for investing in start up retail businesses. TrC lies between NM largest lake, Elephant Butte and Caballo Lake on the Rio Grande River. This little town (8000 pop.) is an island surrounded by a sea of diverse high desert chaparral that gives way to rugged mt., the highest with lush alpine forests in every direction, for the seeker of soft adventure there is serious hiking, rewarding rockhounding, peaceful canoeing, challenging mt. biking, world class birding, trophy sport fishing, and endless road biking
