Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center

What a wonderful wildlife reserve and educational center! The staff is friendly,.and the facilities are top notch. The visitor center has nice educational stations for everyone My favorite was the footprint makers where they provide stamps of all the different animals in the reserve and we pressed them into sand. After visiting the welcome center, we drove around both North and South loops and got photos of a coyote, some deer, some wild turkeys, and a road runner. We didn't see any javelina because they were napping, but, hey, they deserve a nap after doing all their javelina things all morning. This park is a real jewel in New Mexico, and it is one of the many reasons I love living in this state

Visitor center people were kind and informative. Nice gift store. I loved the desert gardens ...the variety and placement of the cacti with the bird feeders scattered about. Loved the hummingbird feeders too. The scenic loops are divided up so you can take a shorter section instead of driving the entire loop. Most roads are wide enough to get by a parked vehicle. Kinda hard in an RV. Some branches are low and drug across the top of my Class C at 11 '3". I need to come back when the cranes are here. I did see rabbit, turkey, coyote, and many birds. Thanks for having a sanctuary for them.

I have tried to get here for about 20 years, every time I went out to New Mexico. Finally went two weeks ago with my daughter. Took the first exit off 25 going north toward Albuquerque, ended up very quickly on a dirt road. Keep going, the visitor center eventually appears and is clean, well laid out and has a nice little museum and wonderful gift shop. Then, head on out for a drive through the Bosque Del Apache. We were there in April, plenty of birds and wildlife, got to see my first road runner and many other types of birds and some giant deer like creatures , still not sure what they were. So worth the time and effort. I imagine it is spectacular when the Sandhill Cranes and others come through. Lots of places to stop and look, binoculars on stands, seats and such. Will go back if I ever make it out that way again.

Bosque del Apache wasn't on our schedule for today so we cane at the wrong time.of day and with only our phones and not our real cameras, but I fell in love with it and we will be back at dawn or dusk with cameras.and tripods to just sit and enjoy the beauty and hopefully get some great shots of flowers and wildlife!

We went for sunrise. A very magical place. The way the park is set up, you drive around a 12 mile loop and can see various habitats and birds right from your car, or you can stop and get out for a closer view from a platform. It's like a bird Safari! We felt transported to another time. Very prehistoric. Good job to everyone over the decades who has taken care of this refuge.