Silver City, NM Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Rarely visited and almost entirely wilderness, the semi-arid, forested, volcanic Mogollon and Mimbres mountains soar above the high desert plain of southwest New Mexico to over ten thousand feet. But for a number of copper mines, the area is protected within the Gila National Forest . The mountains are some of the most remote in the US, little altered since Apache warrior Geronimo was born here at the headwaters of the Gila River. Halfway up the mountains, the biggest settlement, SILVER CITY , lies 45 miles north of I-10 at the junction of US-180 from Deming and Hwy-90 from Lordsburg. The Spanish came here in 1804, … more »