Ruidoso is a mountain resort town located in the Sierra Blanca Mountains in southcentral New Mexico. This friendly alpine town is the perfect year-round destination with beautiful scenery and a mild climate. The cool pines of Lincoln National Park serve as the backdrop for many outdoor adventures including skiing, hiking, fishing, horseback riding, golfing, and mountain biking.

Nearby Ski Apache is the country’s southernmost ski resort and offers warm weather powder skiing with more than fifteen feet of annual snowfall. The ski resort is located on the slopes of the 11,981-foot Sierra Blanca Peak and features New Mexico’s only passenger gondola and 55 runs and trails perfect for skiers and snowboarders of all levels.

Visitors can also enjoy world class horse racing at Ruidoso Downs Racetrack, shopping, casino gaming, museums, art galleries, live music and theater, and some of the best dining in New Mexico at Ruidoso’s fine restaurants.

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Cree Meadows

The many mature pines and several holes featuring water in play, are only a few of the noteworthy features found on this course. The signature hole is 17, a 140 yard par 3 requiring a tee shot over water to a small elevated green. The terrain is easy to walk, making it a pleasure for everyone to play the course. Be forewarned that playing conditions are most always challenging for all skill levels, such is the nature of Ruidoso golf.
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Ruidoso Downs Racetrack & Casino

A unique mix of old and new and started in the 1930s, racing in the Ruidoso Downs has a long tradition of firsts and record breaking. It’s the only horse track in the U.S. and Europe that has a separate quarter horse straightaway and oval thoroughbred track giving spectators a unique venue.
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Lincoln National Forest

This vast 1.1 million-acre forest region is comprised of separate recreational sections including Ruidoso Valley, Cloudcroft and Carlsbad, which are all located throughout the southern Rocky Mountains of New Mexico.
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Bonito Lake

Bonito Lake is an alpine reservoir located high in the Sierra Blanca mountains. It is a popular fishing and camping destination, and although it is surrounded by the Lincoln National Forest, it is not a part of the national forest.
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Inn of The Mountain God’s Casino

New Mexico’s premier mountain resort awaits with impeccable service, mouthwatering cuisine, incredible gaming, and breathtaking alpine scenery. The Inn of the Mountain Gods offers the most enticing casino promotions anywhere in New Mexico.
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Ski Apache

Ski Apache is a ski resort in southern New Mexico, on the slopes of Sierra Blanca. It is owned and operated, since 1963, by the Mescalero Apache Tribe. Ski Apache is the only ski resort in New Mexico with its own gondola lift.
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Pillows Funtrackers

Pillow’s Funtrackers is the premier family fun center in central New Mexico. Known to families from all over the Southwest, they have provided a fun experience for over twenty-five years. This amusement park offers 3 go-kart tracks, 18-hole mini-golf, bumper boats, a maze & arcade games.
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The Links at Sierra Blanca

At the southernmost tip of the Rockies lies the Sacramento Mountains and the vacation paradise of Ruidoso, New Mexico. Here you will find the home of The Links at Sierra Blanca Golf Course. Designed in 1991 by Senior Tour Star Jim Colbert, The Links is framed with breathtaking views in every direction, which include beautiful snow capped mountains in the winter months. The Links includes a first class driving range as well as a chipping and putting green.
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Fox Cave

Fox Cave is located on East Highway 70 between Roswell and Alamogordo, near Ruidoso, New Mexico. It was once used as a hideout by William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid and also known as Henry Antrim, a 19th-century American gunman who participated in the Lincoln County War and became a frontier outlaw in the American Old West.
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Noisy Water Winery

Noisy Water Winery is an American winery in Ruidoso, New Mexico, founded in 2009. In 2014, its wines won fifteen awards at the Finger Lakes International Wine Competition, including a Double Gold for its Ruidoso Bubbly Moscato, two Gold medals, and five Silver medals.
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