Oliver Lee Memorial State Park is a state park of New Mexico, United States, whose two tracts preserve a canyon in the Sacramento Mountains and Oliver Lee's historic 19th-century ranch house. The 640-
The western escarpment of the Sacramento Mountains, looking south at sunset from the Dog Canyon Trail
Tularosa Basin
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The Tularosa Basin is a graben basin in the Basin and Range Province and within the Chihuahuan Desert, east of the Rio Grande in southern New Mexico and West Texas, in the Southwestern United States.
Oliver Lee Memorial State Park
…wildlife viewing, a nature trail, and guided tours of the ranch house. The Dog Canyon National Recreational Trail climbs to provide views of the Tularosa Basin and the Organ Mountains. Nearby are the community of Alamogordo and White Sands National Park. Oliver Lee Memorial State Park was established in 1980…
White gypsum sand and Yucca (Yucca elata) plants, in Tularosa Basin at White Sands National Park.
Creosote bush (Larrea tridentata), that replaced the overgrazed perennial grasslands.
View from the ISS during Expedition 8 Earth observation of the desert Jornada del Muerto region of the Tularosa Basin (showing the dry Lake Lucero)