Vermejo Park Ranch | |
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Location | Colfax / Taos counties, New Mexico and Las Animas / Costilla counties, Colorado, United States |
Nearest city | Raton, New Mexico |
Coordinates | 36°53′21″N 104°58′45″W / 36.88917°N 104.97917°W |
Operator | Ted Turner Reserves |
Website | https://tedturnerreserves.com/vermejo/ |
Vermejo Park Ranch,[1] Vermejo Ranch, or Vermejo, is a 550,000-acre (220,000 ha) nature reserve and guest ranch in northeastern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Ted Turner Reserves, the luxury hospitality company founded by Ted Turner, includes conservation research and ecosystem restoration along with guest operations.[1] The reserve, which stretches from the Great Plains at an elevation of 5,867 ft (1,788 m) to the summit of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, reaches an elevation of 12,931 ft (3,941 m). The ranch produces significant quantities of coalbed methane, a type of natural gas.