Around 5,000 years ago, Little Black peak erupted and flowed into the Tularosa Basin, filling it with molten rock. This now solid rock is 6 miles wide and 160 feet thick. It covers 125 square miles. This is one of the youngest lava flows in North America.
Valley of Fires looks like barren rock but it has lots of interesting things to see. They have lots of flowers, trees, bushes, and catus. The animals include deer, rabbits, quail, barberry sheep, bats, roadrunners and other birds. Among the birds are great horned owls, burrowing owls, buzzards, hawks, gnat catchers, cactus wrens, sparrows and golden eagles. |