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"June Evening on the Cimarron" — What is that view?
If you head east on the main road through Cimarron (Hwy 64), and, as
you're leaving town — just at the last gas station on your right
and as the road turns up to the left on toward Raton and the Ponil Road
— there's a road that comes in on the right -- on the edge of
that turn. That is Hwy 58, which heads east to Springer. Travel east
on 58 for a few miles and eventually on the right you'll come upon a
cluster of mailboxes and a dirt road that heads south. This is "The
Miami Lane" -- the back way down to the village of Miami, and runs
parallel with Route 21 — the main road through Philmont Scout
Ranch's basecamp. The Cimarron River, after cutting through the town
of Cimarron, wends its way eastward across the CS Ranch, eventually
crossing the path of Miami Lane.
The scene of "June Evening on the Cimarron" is from this point
where the Miami Lane and the Cimarron River intersect. Looking west
to the mountains of Philmont, with Trail Peak rising up from Fowler
Mesa, I captured this view of a beautiful, still June evening, when
the fragrance of sage and the trickle of the river took me HOmE.
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