June 12, 2015 by New Mexico Rails-to-Trails Association

Work Day – June 20th!

What we’ll be doing

This month we’re enjoying the nicer weather Cloudcroft again to work around the historical trestle (hopefully will someday soon be an official historical site) on the Brooks property. We’ll be removing some dirt from below the trestle and/or building up some water control structures in the gully above the bridge and trestle. Again, these efforts are in support of having the Trestle eventually recognized as a historical site.

We may form a separate group to do some trail grooming work in an area separate from the trestle activity.

ALSO, we will have shirts and caps with the NEW NM Rails-to-Trails Association logo on sale when we gather up!

Finally, if you haven’t had a chance to check out our 98th Newsletter, now’s your chance! Just click on this link to view or download! NMRTA Newsletter Issue #98

We’ll be walking down to the worksite from the parking area, detailed below.

When/Where: Saturday, June 20th, 2015. We’ll meet at 9am and we’ll work until noon.

Directions to the Village Spur Trailhead parking area (click this link for a Google map)

Driving Directions

Head on up to Cloudcroft as you normally would. We’ll be parking and meeting at the Village Spur Trailhead parking area where Highway 130 intersects with Highway 82. It’s easy to spot there on your right just as you enter Cloudcroft if coming in from High Rolls or Alamogordo.

Thanks!

If you need any additional information, please call 575-434-1949 (ask for Grady) or e-mail nmrailtrails@gmail.com

May 11, 2015 by New Mexico Rails-to-Trails Association

Work Day – May 16th!

What we’ll be doing

This month we’re moving up into Cloudcroft to tackle some brush cleaning, minor drainage work, and possibly some gully work down around Bonnie Brooks’ Trestle and Bridge. These efforts are in support of having the Trestle eventually recognized as a historical site.

We’ll be walking down to the worksite from the parking area, detailed below.

When/Where: Saturday, May 16th, 2015. We’ll meet at 9am and we’ll work until noon.

Directions to the Village Spur Trailhead parking area (click this link for a Google map)

Driving Directions

Thanks!

If you need any additional information, please call 575-434-1949 (ask for Grady) or e-mail nmrailtrails@gmail.com

April 14, 2015 by New Mexico Rails-to-Trails Association

NMRTA Annual Meeting – Friday, May 8th!

It’s that time again! Please join us on May 8 (that’s a Friday) at 6:00 at the Lodge’s Pavilion in Cloudcroft for our ANNUAL MEETING. If you haven’t been to one of our annual meetings in the past, it’s nice for you to know that this is not so much a MEETING but more of a casual, social gathering where we’ll feed you some free hors d’oeuvres, talk about what all the local Rails-to-Trails has done this last year and what we plan to do in the future, AND we always have a guest speaker. This year, we have Mr. Wayne Turner, who worked for the Santa Fe Railroad for 35 years — most of those years as a structures foreman building bridges. Mr. Turner will be presenting a “show & tell” of many unique tools used by the worker as they traveled with the railroad in those earlier years.

We can also expect short presentations from the Forest Service as well as several local area hiking groups. We expect it to last until around 9pm but it’s a totally open meet so you are free to come and stay as short or long as you like!

We certainly hope to see you up at the Pavilion at 6:00pm, Friday, May 8th! There’s no admission charge and should be a really great time!