Day Trips

Living Desert Zoo & Gardens State Park

off US 285
Carlsbad, NM
www.emnrd.state.nm.us/prd/LivingDesert.htm
Hours: Summer 8 am - 5 pm, Winter 9 am - 5 pm

Living Desert Zoo & Gardens State Park is an indoor/outdoor living museum displaying more than 40 native animal species and hundreds of succulent plants from around the world. While on the 1.3 mile self-guided tour, visitors discover many faces of the Chihuahuan Desert, from sand dunes and pygmy forest to the desert floor. This is down in Carlsbad so it's really an overnight trip.