Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near New Mexico

While in New Mexico, you might enjoy a visit to:

Or at least the skeleton of a dinosaur.
~17 miles from Mescalero.

Smokey Bear was both a cartoon character and a real bear. Although a cartoon lives forever, the real bear died during the Bicentennial year and is buried here.
~29 miles from Mescalero.

The exact spot where the world's first nuclear bomb exploded.
~54 miles from Mescalero.

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