Bottomless Lakes State Park

Historical marker location:

US 380, Roswell vicinity, New Mexico

( east of Roswell)

When 19th century cowboys attempted to measure these lakes by tying lariats together, they found no bottom and declared the lakes “bottomless.” Today we know these sinkholes, formed by collapsed salt and gypsum deposits, are 17 to 90 feet in depth. The park was established in 1933 as New Mexico’s first state park.