https://www.nps.gov/sapu/index.ht Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument sign in front of the visitor center and headquarters in Mountainair Lake Estancia In my desire to know more about the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument in central New Mexico my search led me to the salinas playas of the Estancia Basin. The basin at the end of the last Ice Age held a large lake. The playas reveal the story of Lake Estancia to scientists and an understanding of why the Salina

El Morro, the "Head Land" Rising from the New Mexico high desert floor south of Grants, a sandstone bluff represents an important historical site. "Morrow" means "the headland or bluff" in Spanish. The bluff contains over 2,000 petroglyphs, signatures, and messages carved into the rock. Ancestral Puebloans, Spanish and American travelers have stopped at this place for centuries. Why? At the bottom of this geological feature, a reliable water resource exists as an oasis in t