New Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert
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Planning Tips
The busy season is late fall through early spring, when it is cooler. I was here in August during the rainy season, when the desert is in bloom and that is pretty amazing, but you do need air conditioning.
The higher elevations, up in the Lincoln National Forest, are markedly cooler even in summer.
If you are eligible to use military campgrounds, Holloman Air Force Base at White Sands, has a Family Camp. See the maps page.
Highlights
Our image of desert is often barren landscape and large cacti and some of the Chihuahuan Desert might fit that description. I visited during the late-summer rainy season and much of the desert was alive and in bloom. I also found that there an easy escape from the heat in the nearby Lincoln National Forest at the higher elevations in the Sacramento Mountains…
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Alamogordo Average Temperature and Rainfall
