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Cloudcroft Guide

Last updated on Thursday, February 20, 2003

Cloudcroft — cloud in a field

Cloudcroft, at an elevation of 8,650 feet, population 750, draws its name from its height: It is one of the highest towns in New Mexico. In 1899 Charles B. Eddy built a branch line of the El Paso and Northeastern Railroad to Cloudcroft from Alamogordo. The Railroad built a lodge for its workers which was also used as a summer resort for El Pasoans. The village grew around The Lodge. It burned in 1919 but was rebuilt and is still open, complete with the ghost of Rebecca. The nine-hole Lodge golf course at 9,200 feet is the highest in the state. It is said golfers are warned not to feed the bears on the ninth green.

Cloudcroft Chamber of Commerce
P.O. Box 1290
Cloudcroft, NM 88317
(505) 682-2733
FAX (505) 682-6028
www.cloudcroft.net
cloudcroft@zianet.com

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