Sugarite Canyon State Park 001717

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Sugarite Canyon State Park 001717

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Renny Spencer

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You can truly find yourself when lost in the beauty that is nature. This view looks from the far east side of Lake Maloya into a bay and canyon on the far west side. Located in Sugarite Canyon State Park near Raton New Mexico. Inviting blue water contrasts with the greens and browns on the mountains, the pine trees, the grass, etc.

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/sugarite-canyon-new-mexico/

"Sugarite Canyon (pronounced “shug-ur-eet”) sits in a sparsely populated region consisting of a stream valley flanked by cliffs, mesas, cone-shaped volcanoes, and old lava flows. The 3,600-acre park is about four miles long and 1.5 miles wide and includes the ruins of the abandoned Sugurite coal mining camp and Lake Maloya and Lake Alice, both of which are stocked with rainbow and brown trout.

Sugarite is believed to be the anglicized version of Chicorica, the canyon and adjacent mesa’s original name. Long before this beautiful canyon became a coal camp, it was called home to several Native American tribes, including the Comanche, Ute, and Apache, who hunted here for centuries. The canyon was active with cattle ranches in the late 1800s.

Later, Spanish explorers, mountain men, trappers, and traders traveled through the canyon as an alternative to Raton Pass. This area became part of the Maxwell Land Grant, originally awarded to Guadalupe Miranda and Charles Beaubien in 1841.

Coal mining in the canyon began in 1894 and was first developed by the Chicorica Coal Company, which opened the Hartsell and Meredith Mines. The Raton Fuel Company opened the Sugarite No. 1 and 2 mines in 1901 and 1902."

---Renny Spencer
https://rennyspencerphotography.com

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October 22nd, 2021

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