So, how did Elizabethtown, located off the now New Mexico State Road 38 between Eagle Nest and Red River, come to be and end up a ghost town? The story starts with the discovery of gold on Baldy ...

Elizabethtown, New Mexico. The grade school in a deserted gold camp town which dated back to the 1870s. Photo by Collier, John, Jr., 1913-1992. (Credit: Library of Congress) Elizabethtown, New Mexico.

The Baldy fire is approximately 2 miles in distance from the perimeter of the Whitewater fire. West winds are forecast to blow as strong as 50 mph near Silver City, New Mexico, on May 23 ...

Philmont Scout Ranch is about 200 square miles of wilderness, including the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in northern New Mexico. At its base, the ranch is 6,500 feet above sea level. Baldy Mountain ...

The Black Fire has out burned the 2012 Whitewater-Baldy Fire, making it the second largest wildfire in New Mexico’s recent history.

Clover grows atop Penitente Peak, one of New Mexico’s 12,000-plus-foot mountains, with Santa Fe Baldy, left, and the Truchas Peaks, right, rising in the distance. Matt Dahlseid/The New Mexican ...