PARK

NAME: PARK COUNTY: SOCORRO ROADS: 2WD GRID: 4 CLIMATE: Hot summer. Cold winters. BEST TIME TO VISIT: any time

COMMENTS: PARK. In certain areas of NM, chiefly N and W, 'park' is used, as it is in Colorado, to describe a valley shut in by high hills or mountains. This is an old English usage but it also was common to the early French trappers who came to the Rocky Mts. for beaver and other furbearing animals. They spelled the word 'pare' applying to a cleared, grassy basin that served as a kind of enormous pen or corral for deer, buffalo, and other wild animals. REMAINS: check locally

PARK. Post office 1892/1894. Mail to Milligan. See La Smelta. PARKS. (Grant County). Post office 1882/83. First postmaster W. J. Parks. Mail to Lordsburg. PARK SPRINGS. (San Miguel County). 5 mi E of US 84, 30 mi SE of Las Vegas. Post office 1914/19.PARKVIEW. (Rio Arriba County). Farming and Ranching community on US 84, 15 mi S of Chama, and 5 mi N of Tierra Amarillo. Settled in 1878. Before descending the hill, there is a view of timber and clearings that look like a park. Post office 1877/19 Submitted by: Samuel W McWhorter

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