Aahhh (Lake Sumner State Park)

We finally left I-40 and came southeast to the middle of nowhere…

in east-central New Mexico.

But when you look a little closer…

you find a dam…

on the Pecos River…

and Lake Sumner.

The state park has a couple of campgrounds on the lake with water and electricity, the one on the east side is closed for the winter. There are also primitive campsites,

including some very pretty ones below the dam among the cottonwoods lining the river.

It’s a pretty big dam, part concrete…

with a larger rock wall.

The river and valley below the dam are lovely.

It’s a decent sized lake.

Our campsite sits quite a ways above the lake, but I get a glimpse of it from the shade of the cabana behind our site.

We are miles from a road of any size,

and today, Monday, we have the place mostly to ourselves.

Aahhh.