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Elephant Butte State Park is a New Mexico gem. On holiday weekends like Memorial Day, visitors have historically reached 100,000 on each day. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support ...
The park is the largest state park in New Mexico and surrounds the state's largest reservoir. [1] The 36,000-acre (150 km 2) reservoir, created in 1916 across the Rio Grande, is 40 miles (64 km) long with more than 200 miles (320 km) of shoreline. Elephant Butte Dam is named after a rock formation resembling an elephant. [2]
Elephant Butte Reservoir is a reservoir on the southern part of the Rio Grande in the U.S. state of New Mexico, 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Truth or Consequences.The reservoir is the 84th largest man-made lake in the United States and the largest in New Mexico by total surface area and peak volume.
Elephant Butte is a summit that is now in the Elephant Butte Reservoir and within the Elephant Butte Lake State Park in Sierra County, New Mexico. It has an elevation of 4,639 feet (1,414 m). [ 1 ] It was named for its shape, which is said to look like an elephant .
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Elephant Butte is a populated place on the southeast end of the Elephant Butte Reservoir in Sierra County, New Mexico, United States. [1] It should not be confused with the modern city of Elephant Butte, New Mexico that is on the west side of the reservoir to the northwest of this place.
State Road 203 (NM 203) is a 10.3-mile-long (16.6 km) state highway in the US state of New Mexico. NM 203's western terminus is at County Route 3 (CR 3) at the De Baca / Guadalupe county line west-northwest of Lake Sumner , and the eastern terminus is at U.S. Route 84 (US 84) north of Fort Sumner .