Alamocita- New Mexico Ghost Town

COOKS PEAK

NAME: Cooks Peak
COUNTY: Luna
ROADS: 2WD
GRID #(see map): 7
CLIMATE: Mild winter, warm summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT:Spring, winter, fall

COMMENTS: Not Much Left
REMAINS: Only a few adobe ruins remain

The monolithic granite mountain that dominates that area of Luna County was named after Captain Philip St. George Cooke who passed through the area in the winter of 1846 with a battalion of U.S. soldiers. It was not until thirty later that there was any interest in mining at Cooks Peak. Even then, it took another fourteen years or so before the camp reached its greatest peak of prosperity in the early 1890s. The camp was no place for a tenderfoot for killings were commonplace. The town never exceeded one hundred residents and only a few adobe ruins remain today. Courtesy Henry Chenoweth.

The monolithic granite mountain that dominates that area of Luna County was named after Captain Philip St. George Cooke who passed through the area in the winter of 1846 with a battalion of U.S. soldiers. It was not until thirty later that there was any interest in mining at Cooks Peak. Even then, it took another fourteen years or so before the camp reached its greatest peak of prosperity in the early 1890s. The camp was no place for a tenderfoot for killings were commonplace. The town never exceeded one hundred residents and only a few adobe ruins remain today. Courtesy Henry Chenoweth.

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