When we were in New Mexico we took a trip to a "ghost town". Chloride is an old mining town that now has about twelve people still living there. There is a very interesting museum with a small RV park behind it. The Chloride Bank is now a cafe. We ate there and the food wasn't bad. The cook was trying to upgrade the menu. They can't get deliveries there so he has to drive the forty or so miles to town to get supplies. They may run out of certain ingredients before the next run. The waitress told us about a privately owned field a block down where for two dollars you can park and off load your four wheeler. There is a Forest Service road/trail that starts at the end of the road in Chloride and goes up into the mountains. If you take it you will cross a stream over 150 times which may or may not have water in it.
The other picture is of the "hanging tree or Chloride forest". Not sure if they really used it for hanging and it is the biggest tree around so it gets the "forest" tag as a joke. It's a little bit of a drive to Chloride with at least one hairpin tight curve to get up and over so not sure I would want to take the RV but lots of hunters do make it.
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