Therma Drive, the main street in Eagle Nest, is lined with shops that carry locally crafted fine arts, sculpture, sterling silver and Indian jewelry, antiques, pottery, kitchen items, candles, clothing, souvenirs, T-shirts and much more. Food offerings include several down home style restaurants, pizza, subs, home made fudge and a specialty coffee shop.

Check out Eagle Nest Lake State Park where you can cast your line for kokanee salmon and rainbow trout, enjoy a variety of water sports or ice fish during our awesome winters. Eagle Nest Lake State Park (505) 377-1594

As you drive through town, don't miss the sign for the future Enchanted Circle Gateway Museum. The museum, a Southwest Victorian style railway station, will accomodate a vast model train display, antique toys and artifacts, an interactive learning center and classrooms. The grounds will feature track layouts and switching areas for operating trains, walking paths, patio with fountain, and stationary railway car displays. And you can pan for gold many weekends throughout the year on the museum site.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial State Park - For visitors wishing to reflect on the true meaning of Memorial Day weekend, Vietnam Veteran's Memorial State Park holds a special memorial event on Monday, Memorial Day of each year.

In 1971, Victor and Jeanne Westphall established the Memorial in honor of their son, Lieutenant David Westphall, who was killed in Vietnam in May 1968 during an ambush. The park became New Mexico's 33rd State Park on November 11, 2005 and is the only state park in the country dedicated solely as a Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Local architect, Ted Luna, designed a structure "such that no person entering it could leave with quite the same attitude toward peace and war." For many of the estimated 80,000 visitors a year, the chapel and memorabilia in the visitor center can be emotional yet healing. State Parks expects to invest nearly $1.8 million to go towards staffing and improvements/reparations at the Memorial over the next few years.

THE MORENO VALLEY

    

Scenic Moreno Valley is unsurpassed in beauty, with spectacular views from Eagle Nest's 8,200 feet level to the top of Wheeler Peak, the highest in the state at 13,161 feet. The snowcapped mountains offer outstanding winter sports: Angel Fire, just 10 miles, 40 miles to Taos and 18 miles to Red River. The Moreno Valley is located 300 miles south of Denver, 100 miles northeast of Santa Fe and just 200 miles northwest of the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma.

THE ENCHANTED CIRCLE

New Mexico's most spectacular scenic byway, an 85-mile loop winding through high mountains and forests. Experience five charming villages, each with its own character, an arts mecca, wild river country, a frontier town, a lakeside village, and an alpine resort. The Echanted Circle offers excellent snow sports, hiking, boating, fishing, hunting, golfing and horseback riding. Quaint mountain villages, ghost towns, ancient adobe structures, a Native American pueblo, and southwestern art, are just a few fascinating points of interest in the area. This is truly the Enchanted Circle.

Contact each Chamber of Commerce for additional event information and for a year round calendar of events for each location.