About Pie Town and Catron County, New Mexico
Daily Pie Cafe
Located on the south side of Highway 60 in Pie Town, hours vary — check their Web site.
Pie-O-Neer Cafe
Located on the north side of Highway 60 in Pie Town, hours vary — check their Web site.
Top of the World General Store and Laundromat
Three miles west of Pie Town on Highway 60. Do your laundry, pick up some groceries, use the free Wi-Fi — owners Tom and Vicki welcome you to stop by and visit.
The Pie Town Community Council leads a host of volunteers in making your community a better place. They sponsor annual events, the largest of which is the annual Pie Festival, and perform many services that you just might take for granted.
The Very Large Array
The Very Large Array, one of the world's premier astronomical radio observatories, consists of 27 radio antennas in a Y-shaped configuration on the Plains of San Agustin fifty miles west of Socorro, New Mexico.
Continental Divide National Scenic TrailThe Continental Divide Trail Alliance
The Continental Divide National Scenic Trail provides for high quality, scenic, primitive hiking and horseback-riding recreational experiences, while conserving natural, historic, and cultural resources along the Continental Divide. Extending 3,100 miles between Mexico and Canada, the trail traverses landscapes primarily on public lands within 50 miles of the geographic feature.
Quemado Lake Recreation Area
The 800-acre Quemado Lake Recreation Area is located approximately 20 miles south of Quemado. The recreation area includes the 131 acre manmade trout lake with two ADA fishing piers, two boat ramps, seven developed campgrounds, one primitive campground, and links to more than seven miles of hiking trails. The lake is nestled between piñon-juniper woodlands and pine forests at an elevation of 7860 feet.
The Gila National Forest
The Gila National Forest has spectacular scenery ranging from high cool mountains with aspen and douglas fir to warm semi-arid lowlands with juniper, oak and cactus. It is one of the more remote and least developed National Forests in the southwest. Covering 3.3 million acres of publicly owned forest and range land, the Forest is the sixth largest National Forest in the continental United States. The Forest is also home to the first proclaimed Wilderness area.
The Cibola National Forest
The Cibola National Forest and National Grasslands are over 1.9 million acres in size. Elevation ranges from 5,000-11,301 feet. The forest includes the Datil, Gallinas, Magdalena, Bear, Manzano, Sandia, San Mateo, Mt. Taylor, and Zuni Mountains. There are four wildernesses contained within the forest: the Sandia Mountain, Manzano Mountain, Withington, and Apache Kid. The Cibola National Grasslands are located in northeastern New Mexico, western Oklahoma, and northwestern Texas.
The Apache and Sitgreaves National Forests
The Apache and Sitgreaves National Forests encompass over two million acres of magnificent mountain country in east-central Arizona. On the Sitgreaves, the major attractions for the visitors from the desert are the Mogollon Rim and eight cold-water lakes. The Apache National Forest ranges in elevation from 3,500 feet to nearly 11,500 feet and is named for the tribes that settled in this area. The area from Mount Baldy east to Escudilla Mountain is often referred to as the White Mountains of Arizona.
Catwalk National Scenic Trail
The Catwalk National Scenic Trail area offers a beautiful picnic spot next to Whitewater Creek, a challenging one mile trail along the historic water line route from the 1890's, a trailhead access into the Gila Wilderness, a bird watcher's paradise and a sense of place that creates images of an earlier time.
Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
Bosque del Apache NWR is situated just east of Interstate 25 midway between Albuquerque and Las Cruces. While there is always something interesting to see, you will find the greatest numbers of birds at the Refuge during the winter months, i.e. from early November to mid-February.
DanCyn' Windmill Museum
Dan and Cyndi Lee are happy and excited to invite you to the DanCyn' Windmill Museum, located in Pie Town, NM. It has been their dream to capture the rich heritage of the area in a "period authentic" log cabin filled with memories of local families, the homesteaders, the ranchers. Come share the memories with them.
The museum began as a vision 12 years ago when they visited a windmill park in Oklahoma. There are now seven vintage windmills standing, a picnic area to rest. Their next project is to erect another cabin donated by Poncho and Lora Elliott. This cabin will be a library to house the precious memories of the past. Dan actually lived in this cabin as a young boy, although he says "we just slept in it."
Like so many families of the 30's, 40's and 50's, by the time the chores of the day were completed, there was little time inside. Dan's father worked on the York Ranch north of Pie Town, too far away for the children to attend school, so Dan's mother stayed near town in various houses so that she could keep the children in school.
She drove the school bus and each day they hauled water in a large milk can for the family. Dan was let out on the road before reaching home to gather firewood for the evening. At the time they stayed in the cabin, there were six in the family. Weekends were spent on the ranch with his father.
The museum is located just east of the Lee home on the north side of Highway 60 in Pie Town, open if they are home. For information call Dan or Cyndi Lee at (575) 772-2755.
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