Salt Lake, New Mexico

[Highmountain]

I posted locations and descriptions about this place here:

A few ghost town locations around your state
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But I never got around to posting pics.

It's mostly early 20th Century, once had a population of 100-150, workers for the salt recovery operation. A few years ago the post office mail room was intact with bins and the names of all the employees still on them.

It's a volcano cone with a lake of brine inside it.

Jack

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Excellent pix...thanks for sharing this!

 

[ClonedSIM]

Jack, until you came along, I had no idea there were so many interesting spots in NM. I've only lived here about 4 years, and it's been a busy 4 years, but as things slow down I'll have a whole trove of invaluable info from you!

 

[bootybay]

wonderful photos.. you guys out west are sooo lucky

 

[Highmountain]

Jack, until you came along, I had no idea there were so many interesting spots in NM. I've only lived here about 4 years, and it's been a busy 4 years, but as things slow down I'll have a whole trove of invaluable info from you!

af1733: Glad someone's possibly going to get some use out of it all.

If you're in Albuquerque you might make a pleasant day trip to Marquez [maps somewhere among those I've posted] north of Laguna. It's the best and closest to you I'm aware of, though if you manage to get in Cabazon's also pretty worthwhile. Marquez still has the standing remains of a stagecoach station/general store that once served the checkboard area in the hard-to-get-too wastelands east to the Puerco. Probably you won't wish to do any detecting on the Marquez townsite, but the areas getting to it are rife with places worth a stop.

Good luck
Jack

 

[johnnycat]

Jack, until you came along, I had no idea there were so many interesting spots in NM. I've only lived here about 4 years, and it's been a busy 4 years, but as things slow down I'll have a whole trove of invaluable info from you!

af1733: Glad someone's possibly going to get some use out of it all.

If you're in Albuquerque you might make a pleasant day trip to Marquez [maps somewhere among those I've posted] north of Laguna. It's the best and closest to you I'm aware of, though if you manage to get in Cabazon's also pretty worthwhile. Marquez still has the standing remains of a stagecoach station/general store that once served the checkboard area in the hard-to-get-too wastelands east to the Puerco. Probably you won't wish to do any detecting on the Marquez townsite, but the areas getting to it are rife with places worth a stop.

Good luck
Jack

Cabezon is fenced off with all kinds of signs on it. I understand they open it up once a year for some sort of celebration. However, lots of old homesites along the Rio Puerco in that area.

 

[Highmountain]

Jack, until you came along, I had no idea there were so many interesting spots in NM. I've only lived here about 4 years, and it's been a busy 4 years, but as things slow down I'll have a whole trove of invaluable info from you!

af1733: Glad someone's possibly going to get some use out of it all.

If you're in Albuquerque you might make a pleasant day trip to Marquez [maps somewhere among those I've posted] north of Laguna. It's the best and closest to you I'm aware of, though if you manage to get in Cabazon's also pretty worthwhile. Marquez still has the standing remains of a stagecoach station/general store that once served the checkboard area in the hard-to-get-too wastelands east to the Puerco. Probably you won't wish to do any detecting on the Marquez townsite, but the areas getting to it are rife with places worth a stop.

Good luck
Jack

Cabezon is fenced off with all kinds of signs on it. I understand they open it up once a year for some sort of celebration. However, lots of old homesites along the Rio Puerco in that area.

Thanks for the info Johnnycake: I haven't been to Cabazon in a number of years and the last time I was there there was a fence with a gate and no signs except at the dwellings and a few plots in the village.

That checkerboard country up there does have a number of dead communities, the best I've ever come across being Marquez to the west, but it's tricky getting onto those located on public land because of the checkerboarding ownership.

Lots of BLM land in there and State land, but they checkerboarded private sections into it in payment to the railroad when it was coming through, along with other reasons for paying folk off. Later the famous gang of politicians in Santa Fe got into the act and took a chunk out of it, as well.

Somewhere up there I once came across a little used BLM wilderness area, too, that was fairly interesting and didn't appear to get any traffic to speak of.

Jack