Highlights

Area Flora and Fauna
Trees	Aspen, ponderosa pine, silver and blue spruce, willow, juniper, cedar, Gambel’s oak, Engleman spruce, cork bark fir, limber pine, cottonwood, Douglas fir.
Wild Flowers	Yucca, columbine, shrubbery, cinquefoil, scarlet trumpeter, fire cracker penstemon, alpine lupine, evening primrose, iris, chokecherry, cow parsnip, false hellebore, march marigold, mariposa lily, false Solomon-seal, white phlox, Canada violet, showey daisey, alpine buttercup, Oregon grape, fairy slipper, twinberry, snowberry, Indian paint brush, rock columbine, scarlet gilia, wild geranium, fireweed, moss campion, wild rose, fairy primrose, shooting star, elephant head, aster, clematis, hare bell, blue bell, forget-me-not, blue gentian, larkspur, monkshood, bistort, monkey flower, butter and eggs.
Edible Berries	Raspberry, blueberry, current, gooseberry, elderberry, strawberry, chokecherry.
Edible Mushrooms	Boletus, giant puffball, shaggy mane, chanterelle.
Animals	Beaver, black bear, chipmunk, tassel-eared squirrel, mule deer, elk, coyote, skunk, mountain lion, bobcat, porcupine, marmot, ermine (weasel), cottontail rabbit, snowshoe hare, raccoon, dormouse, muskrat, shrew, pika, swift fox.
Fish	German brown, rainbow, brook and cutthroat trout; pike in nearby waters.
Birds	Broadtail and rufous hummingbird, red-wing blackbird, rose-breasted and white-breasted nuthatch, tree swallow, mountain and western bluebird, robin, wren, western tanager, junco, Clark’s nutcracker (camp robber), Stellar’s blue jay, common raven, evening and black-headed grosbeak, nutcracker, mountain chickadee, dipper (ouzel), flicker, woodpecker (several), finch, wild turkey, grouse, duck (several), belted king fisher, Audubon warbler, white-crowned sparrow, golden eagle, peregrine falcon, red-tailed hawk, dove, flycatcher, owl (several), Canadian jay.
Snakes	Rare and non-poisonous

Pertinent Facts
Altitude	Town – 8,650 feet. The two highest area peaks are to the south of Red River: Wheeler Peak – 13,161 feet (highest point in New Mexico) and Gold Hill – 12, 682 feet.
Average Temperature
Winter	40 degrees – day; minus 12 degrees – night.
Summer	75 degrees – day: 38 degrees – night.
Snowfall	(Yearly average) 155 inches.