New Mexico State Parks Offer Ceremonies, Parades, Star Parties ...

NEW MEXICO ? There is lots to do Memorial Day Weekend!

The New Mexico State Parks Division announces a distraction opportunities and activities for this year?s Memorial Day Weekend, including: H2O recreation, parades honoring use group and women, fishing derbies and countless other special programs during many New Mexico State Parks. Special activities start Friday, May 25, and continue by Monday, May 28. There is something for only about everybody in opposite corners of a state; residents and visitors can flog off a summer deteriorate with a getaway tighten to home.

?New Mexico State Parks offer an contentment of recreational opportunities for Memorial Day weekend,? pronounced Tommy Mutz, Director of a New Mexico State Parks Division. ?Come and reconstruct tighten to home and attend in a family-oriented events to flog off a initial holiday of a summer.?

Vietnam Veterans Memorial State Park in Angel Fire will horde a accumulation of programs via a weekend. The thesis this year is Life After Combat.

Events for Sunday, May 27:
1:00-2:00 p.m. - Vietnam maestro and photographer, Ted Engelmann, will yield a arrangement entitled One Soldier?s Heart including excerpts from his arriving book. Ted served in a U.S. Air Force from 1968-1969. He has common his photography of fight and dispute with students and educators via a U.S., Vietnam, South Korea, Australia, and Canada. Since 2008, he has embedded as a independent photographer in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

2:00-3:00 p.m. ? Historian Donna Knaff, PhD, will benefaction a latest investigate conducted by a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command. This module conducts tellurian search, recovery, and laboratory operations to brand unaccounted-for Americans from past conflicts.

3:00-4:00 p.m. ? First Lieutenant Lee Alley will plead his book, Back from War: Finding Hope and Understanding In Life After Combat. A book signing will follow.

7:00-8:00 p.m. ? A candlelight burial will take place in a amphitheater. This honest rite honors those who served though did not lapse home. Presenters will embody member from a David Westphall Foundation and song will be supposing by Becky Schoeneberg.

Events for Monday, May 28:
9:00 a.m. ? The Flag Mar on Memorial Day will take place opposite a overwhelming backdrop of a Moreno Valley, while Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 318 lead a approach adult to a Memorial. They will lift a 40? x 60? American dwindle adult a mountain with a assistance of volunteers from Angel Fire and Moreno Valley Fire Departments, and members of a New Mexico State Police.

11:00 a.m. ? The Memorial Day Ceremony facilities keynote speaker, Vietnam maestro and author, Lee Alley. Also vocalization is Michele Beuttel from a Taos VA Clinic, Chuck Howe and Chuck Hasford from a David Westphall Foundation, Ted Engelmann and Michael Cava of a Vietnam Veterans of America. Plan on bringing a grass chair or sweeping and join us for this stirring event. There is no opening price to Vietnam Veterans Memorial State Park.

For some-more information about a events during Vietnam Veterans Memorial State Park on Memorial Day weekend contact: Kate German 575-377-2293.

Mesilla Valley Bosque State Park will horde a Nature Hike on Friday, May 25, from 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Visitors will join a Park Ranger on a late afternoon inlet travel by a park, and learn about a wildlife and plants of Mesilla Valley. Visitors should move water, binoculars, and sunscreen, and wear hiking shoes. For some-more information contact: LuAnn Kilday 575-523-4398.

Bottomless Lakes State Park will horde Enchanted Evenings each Saturday, commencement May 26 by Saturday, Sep 1 from 8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. Enchanted Evenings are presentations conducted by park rangers or guest speakers and are typically inlet oriented on topics such as wildlife, geology/hydrology, history, etc. They take place during a ancestral Lea Lake pavilion. For some-more information contact: David Sharp 575-624-6058.

Brantley Lake State Park will horde a Star Party, Saturday, May 26, from 8:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. The module starts with an introduction to night sky insurance and telescope etiquette. Visitors will learn about a constellations with a laser debate of a heavens. Later they will demeanour during a planets Venus, Mars, and Jupiter as good as star clusters, nebulae, and other wonders of a night sky. Visitors are acquire to move their possess telescopes. For some-more information contact: Kathryn Law 575-887-5516.

Elephant Butte Lake State Park will reason a Fly Freedom Flag Boat Parade honoring use group and women on May 26, during 10:00 a.m. The march will launch from Marina del Sur and finish during Rock Canyon. Last year over 20 boats were flashy and participated in a event. The park provides copiousness of beach and some new camping areas tighten to a water?s edge. Make your reservations early to get one of these good camping spots. For some-more information contact: Nadine Crom 575-744-5567.

Percha Dam State Park will horde Storytelling and Music with Native American Storyteller Ernie Dogwolf Lavato on Saturday, May 26, from 7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. For some-more information contact: Salvador Gonzalez 575-743-3942.

Sugarite Canyon State Park is hosting a annual Fishing Derby from emergence on Saturday, May 26, until noon on Sunday, Jun 3. Anglers will have a possibility to win a vessel and adult to $1,000 cash. The park is scheduled to batch 3- to 6-pound German brownish-red and rainbow fish before a derby, that takes place during Lake Maloya. Any angler who catches a tagged fish wins an benefaction esteem and is automatically entered into a sketch for money prizes of $1,000, $600 and $400. There are daily doorway prizes for derby participants. All purebred participants also are entered into a sketch for a 12-foot V-hull aluminum vessel finish with a trailer, electric trolling engine and life vests. Participants do not have to be benefaction to win. Derby registration is $15. For some-more information hit any park staff: 575-445-5607.

Mesilla Valley Bosque State Park will horde a Bird Tour, Saturday, May 26, from 7:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m. A park proffer will lead visitors and plead emigration and a many birds that will be flitting by and that are found in a area. For some-more information contact: LuAnn Kilday 575-523-4398.

Oasis State Park will horde a Star Party on Saturday, May 26, from 8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Mick Hoffman and a Clovis Astronomy Club will lead a party, that will take place in a caller core parking lot during dusk. Come see a entrance of Oasis? telescope that was easily donated to a park. No pets will be authorised during this event. Bring binoculars, telescopes, red lens flashlights, and suffer a night of training underneath a stars. For some-more information contact: Valerie Russ 575-356-5331.

Oliver Lee State Park will have a Reptile Show on Saturday, May 26, and Sunday, May 27, from 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Ted Brown and members of a New Mexico Herpetological Society will arrangement live reptiles and amphibians found in a Dog Canyon area. Members will be accessible to yield information via a Memorial Day weekend. For some-more information contact: Charles Wood 575-437-8284.

Cerrillos Hills State Park will horde a Wildflower Walk, Sunday, May 27, from 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Visitors will learn about wildflowers, grasses, trees and shrubs. For some-more information contact: Sarah Wood 505-474-0196.

Celebrate New Mexico?s Centennial during YOUR state parks; for some-more information, call 888-NMPARKS or revisit nmparks.com.
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