Tag: Capulin Volcano National Monument
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Just south of Colorado border, you can walk into a volcano crater
CAPULIN, N.M. • Just beyond Colorado’s southern border into New Mexico, a lonely highway runs through fields of cattle and pronghorn, of windmills and splintered, crumbling remains of homesteads. Then the mountain emerges. Now the imagination travels to a time long before the Wild West. The mountain’s shape is unmistakable — “a striking example of…