Vacation
If you’re planning a vacation to New Mexico, Lost Sky Ranch is a great destination in itself. New Mexico offers some of the most beautiful high desert landscapes of the southwest. Plus, we offer guided tours of New Mexico’s greatest natural resource, the night sky. Seeing the Milky Way from a true dark sky site is a moving experience equal to your first view of the Rocky Mountains or the Grand Canyon.
Lost Sky Ranch is also a central location in the state. It makes it a great base of operations for exploring many of New Mexico’s most popular attractions.
White Sands National Park (Alamogordo)
New Mexico Museum of Space History (Alamogordo)
Three Rivers Petroglyph Site
Valley of Fire National Recreation Area (Carrizozo)
The Very Large Array
The National Solar Observatory (Sunspot)
Apache Point Observatory – Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Sunspot)
Cloudcroft
Gran Quivira at Salinas National Monument
Bottomless Lakes State Park (Roswell)
The UFO Research Center (Roswell)
Santa Fe Art Galleries and Artist Community
Smoky the Bear Visitors Center
The Trinity Nuclear Test Site (Open two days a year)
Inn of the Mountain Gods Casino and Golf (Ruidoso)
Lincoln Historic District (Billy the Kid)
Gallery 408 - Carrizozo
Tularosa Basin Gallery of Photography - Carrizozo
Organ Mountains - Las Cruces
Note: The actual Roswell UFO crash site is only a few miles from Lost Sky Ranch. Regretfully, this site is on private ranch land and is not open to the public.
Organ Mountains National Monument
Godfrey Hills at Three Rivers Petroglyph Site
Three Rivers Petroglyph
Gran Quivira at Salinas National Monument
Bottomless Lakes State Park
Apache Point Observatory – Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Valley of Fire National Recreation Area
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (VLA)
White Sands National Park after dark