Alamogordo is in a basin between the foothills of the Sacramento Mountains and the desert. New York Avenue in the downtown area is lined with restored 1930s and 1940s brick buildings. Nearby is White Sands National Monument, offering miles of white gypsum sand dunes.

Alameda Park Zoo, Desert Lakes Golf Course, Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico Museum of Space History and Clyde W. Tombaugh IMAX Theater, Kids' Kingdom, Tularosa Basin Historical Museum

Apache Point Observatory, Cloudcroft, Holloman AFB, Lincoln National Forest (Sacramento Mtns.), Mescalero Apache Reservation, National Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak, Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Ruidoso, Three Rivers Petroglyph National Recrea tion Site/BLM, Valley of Fires, White Sands National Monument

Hotels and Motels: 15; Bed and Breakfast: 2; Total Rooms: 765

U. S. Forest Service Tanker Base (P2 Neptune Submarine Chaser)

Otero County Film Office

Jan Wafful, Film Liaison

575-434-5882; 575-437-7139 Fax

E-mail: jan@filmotero.com

Web: www.filmotero.com

City: 575-439-4353

Chamber of Commerce:

800-826-0294; 575-437-6120

Web: www.alamogordo.com;

www.ocedc.com

E-mail: chamber@alamogordo.com