Bottomless Lake State Park, New Mexico

We wanted to see Roswell NM, so we made camp at Bottomless Lake State Park and were pleasantly surprised as how nice it was.

Bottomless Lake State Park is New Mexico's first state park. It is made up of several small lakes that are actually water filled sink holes. They are made from the local gypsum terrain. The surrounding ground has gypsum that sparkles when the sun hits it just right and looks like the ground is covered with diamonds.

The lakes have a green/blue color that makes them look bottomless. Before the area became a state park it was used by ranchers. Some cowboys wanted to see how deep the lakes were and tied their saddles to ropes and lowered them in the lake but could not find the bottom thus the name of bottomless lakes. The deepest lake is 90 feet.