Kit Carson Mesa is the name of a
mesa
A mesa is an isolated, flat-topped elevation, ridge or hill, which is bounded from all sides by steep escarpments and stands distinctly above a surrounding plain. Mesas characteristically consist of flat-lying soft sedimentary rocks capped by ...
near
Rayado in Colfax County, New Mexico.
New Mexico State Road 21
New Mexico State Road 21 (NM 21), is a state highway located entirely in Colfax County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The road starts in the center of the town of Cimarron at U.S. Route 64 (US 64) and runs southward then east to an intersect ...
runs adjacent to the mesa. It is named after
Kit Carson
Christopher Houston Carson (December 24, 1809 – May 23, 1868) was an American frontiersman. He was a fur trapper, wilderness guide, Indian agent, and U.S. Army officer. He became a frontier legend in his own lifetime by biographies and n ...
, who is said to have been the first English speaking traveler to visit the town of Rayado.
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Philmont Scout Ranch
Philmont Scout Ranch is a ranch located in Colfax County, New Mexico, near the village of Cimarron; it covers of wilderness in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains on the east side of the Cimarron Range of the Rocky Mountains. Donated by oil baro ...
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Miami, New Mexico
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{{Colfax County, New Mexico
Mesas of New Mexico
Landforms of Colfax County, New Mexico