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Ruidoso

Ruidoso is a town in . Its attractions include pleasant mountain recreation and world-caliber horse racing. During the summer population triples as New Mexicans and Texans arrive to enjoy the horse races, gambling, and cool mountain air.
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  • Type: Town with 7,680 residents
  • Description: village in Lincoln County, New Mexico, United States
  • Also known as: “Dowlins Mill”, “Ruidosa at Forks”, “Ruidoso, New Mexico”, and “Ruidoso, NM”
  • Postal codes: 88345 and 88355

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ruidoso River Museum and Ruidoso Public Library.

Museum
Fox Cave is located on East Highway 70 between and Alamogordo, near Ruidoso, New Mexico. It was once used as a hideout by William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid and also known as Henry Antrim, a 19th-century American gunman who participated in the Lincoln County War and became a frontier outlaw in the American Old West.

Library
Photo: AllenS, Public domain.
Ruidoso is a village in , , United States, adjacent to the . The population was 7,679 at the 2020 census.

Tower
was completed in 1940 by the U.S. Forest Service to serve as a fire lookout tower within , , .

Ruidoso

Latitude
33.3316° or 33° 19′ 54″ north
Longitude
-105.6731° or 105° 40′ 23″ west
Population
7,680
Elevation
6,729 feet (2,051 metres)
IATA airport code
RUI
United Nations Location Code
US RUI
Open location code
855P88JG+JQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151606261
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5488598
Wiki­data ID
Q2380585
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Ruidoso” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “رويدوسو”
  • Basque: “Ruidoso”
  • Catalan: “Ruidoso”
  • Cebuano: “Ruidoso”
  • Chinese: “Ruidoso”
  • Chinese: “魯伊多索”
  • Chinese: “鲁伊多索”
  • Croatian: “Ruidoso, Novi Meksiko”
  • Croatian: “Ruidoso”
  • Dutch: “Ruidoso”
  • French: “Ruidoso”
  • German: “Ruidoso”
  • Gilaki: “رویدوسو”
  • Hebrew: “רוידוסו”
  • Italian: “Ruidoso”
  • Japanese: “ルイドソ”
  • Ladin: “Ruidoso”
  • Mazanderani: “رویدوسو (نیومکزیکو)”
  • Mazanderani: “رویدوسو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ruidoso”
  • Navajo: “Tsé Táyiʼ Siʼání”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ruidoso”
  • Persian: “رویدوسو، نیومکزیکو”
  • Persian: “رویدوسو”
  • Polish: “Ruidoso”
  • Portuguese: “Ruidoso”
  • Romanian: “Ruidoso, New Mexico”
  • Romanian: “Ruidoso”
  • Russian: “Руидозо”
  • Serbian: “Ruidoso, New Mexico”
  • Serbian: “Ruidoso”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ruidoso, New Mexico”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ruidoso”
  • South Azerbaijani: “رویدوسو، نیومکزیکو”
  • Spanish: “Ruidoso (Nuevo México)”
  • Spanish: “Ruidoso”
  • Swedish: “Ruidoso, New Mexico”
  • Swedish: “Ruidoso”
  • Turkish: “Ruidoso, New Mexico”
  • Turkish: “Ruidoso”
  • Ukrainian: “Руідозо”
  • Ukrainian: “Руїдозо”
  • Urdu: “رویئڈوسو، نیو میکسیکو”
  • Urdu: “رویئڈوسو”
  • Volapük: “Ruidoso, New Mexico”
  • Volapük: “Ruidoso”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ruidoso, New Mexico”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ruidoso”
  • Welsh: “Ruidoso, New Mexico”
  • Welsh: “Ruidoso”
  • “Ruidoso”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Ruidoso”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.