Capulin Volcano NM, NM New Deal (# 0022)

Though it was fogged in and raining, I still drove to the top of the volcano. Much of the development that had made Capulin Volcano a visitable site was work funded with New Deal funds in the 1930's. These funds paid for the paving of the road to the top, construction of campgrounds and picnic grounds at lower elevations, some of the retaining walls on the road, and the retaining wall around the top parking lot.

The only area where I could get out of the rain enough to photograph was at the top. While there I had assumed that this shelter was New Deal funded also, but with some research I discovered that the retaining wall was New Deal but the shelter was built in the 1950’s.

Source: www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/cavo/cavo_admin_history.pdf