Left Sumner Lake SP about 9am heading for Santa Rosa SP, near Santa Rosa, NM. Stopped at the local grocery store in Santa Rosa for hot dog rolls & cereal. Santa Rosa is a pretty little town. It’s hay day was when Route 66 was the major cross country road. Route 66 was completed in 1926. When I-40 was completed through this area in 1972, Santa Rosa became just another interchange.
Santa Rosa Lake State Park is an attractive place but not as nice as either Sumner Lake or Bottomless Lakes. All three of these lakes were formed when dams were built to control the Pecos River. We walked the ¾ mile accessible nature trail, drove down near the lake for a while then spent the rest of the day doing this & that.
Another pretty, sunny & very windy day. Saw another huge windmill farm on the way here. Seems the winds around here blow steadily most of the year.
