The natural backdrop—the heavily forested Sacramento Mountains within Lincoln National Forest—is sublime. The resort community that now extends for 10 miles along the Ruidoso River had inauspicious beginnings in the 1890s as a trading post, and an old waterwheel from that era still stands on Main Street.
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