Walnut Canyon
Walnut Canyon is a valley in Los Alamos, New Mexico and has an elevation of 7,001 feet.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Los Alamos History Museum and Mesa Public Library.
Los Alamos History Museum
Museum
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The Los Alamos History Museum is housed in two buildings: the historic Guest Cottage, located next to Fuller Lodge, of Los Alamos Ranch School, which was General Leslie Groves's favorite place to stay during the Manhattan Project; and the Bethe House a short distance away, where Hans Bethe lived for a brief time after the end of World War II.
Mesa Public Library
Library
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Mesa Public Library is the Los Alamos branch of the Los Alamos County Library System in New Mexico, United States. The library collection has more than 160,000 items which include books, CDs, DVDs, original paintings, and material in several foreign languages.
Los Alamos County Airport
Aerodrome
Los Alamos Airport, also known as Los Alamos County Airport, is a county-owned, public-use airport in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, United States. It is located one nautical mile east of the central business district of Los Alamos, New Mexico. Los Alamos County Airport is situated 2 miles east of Walnut Canyon.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Los Alamos.
Los Alamos
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Los Alamos is a small town in northern New Mexico, about an hour northwest of Santa Fe. Its claim to fame is the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where Oppenheimer and other physicists created the world's first atomic bomb during World War II, concluding the Golden Age of Modern Physics and heralding the Atomic Age.
Walnut Canyon
- Type: Valley with an elevation of 7,001 feet
- Category: landform
- Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.88954° or 35° 53′ 22″ northLongitude
-106.30144° or 106° 18′ 5″ westElevation
7,001 feet (2,134 metres)Open location code
857MVMQX+RCGeoNames ID
11387946
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