Vermejo Park Ranch: Nature Tourism

Vermejo Park Ranch is a hunting and fishing lodge, but their most recent initiative is nature tourism. Visitors can row across an alpine lake, watch cow elks and their calves, take a turn at skeet shooting, photograph bison and eagles, or horse ride through the high country. Want more? Hike through abandoned towns, learn about forest management, peer through binoculars at raptors, or learn about the geology of the land and efforts to bring back some of the Ranch's original species including blac…