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ELEPHANT BUTTE SIERRA COUNTY
he City of Elephant Butte, spread across a hillside overlooking New Mexico’s largest lake, is a growing resort and retirement community. It offers RV facilities, restaurants, hotels and motels, guide services, marinas and watercraft rentals. this page: Marinas Elephant Butte Lake is around forty miles long with nearly 200 miles of shore- on Elephant Butte Lake, New Mexico’s line, It is the state’s premier water sports destination, attracting almost a million visitors largest, provide the focal points for a huge annually. The clean, sandy beaches are ideal for swimming and camping and the lake offers all array of water sporting opposite, manner of boating, water skiing, scuba diving, jet skiing and even parasailing. For anglers, the activities. top: Elephant Butte waters are stocked with many species of game fish, including walleye, white, black and large- Lake is New Mexico’s water playground of mouth bass; crappie and record-setting stripers. Land-based recreational activities include hiking, the desert southwest. opposite, bottom: birding and special events throughout the year. Championship golfing Elephant Butte Each September, the city sponsors the Elephant Butte Balloon Regatta which features hot air in ranks among the balloons, skydivers and drag boats from across the country. An exciting nighttime special event is state’s best golfing experiences. the Beach Walk Luminaria Festival and Lighted Boat Parade held annually at Christmas. The occasion dazzles the eye with thousands of luminaries lining a specially designed path on the beach. Along the way, campfires, live music and food provided by local vendors warm both body and soul. The celebration also includes a parade of illuminated boats, ending with prizes awarded for the most amusingly or elaborately decorated watercraft or RV.
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