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This place is 680 acres of monolithic blocks of stone, sitting in the grassy foothills of southwest New Mexico. "Whoever named it hit the nail on the head," said Gail Sandlin, wife of City of Rocks park superintendent Cratie Sandlin.
From a distance, the odd geologic formation resembles row after row of huge molars, sticking out of the desert floor, some crooked, some straight. Many stand alone. Others have been joined in groups of two or three. Some lean hard against each other.
More than 30-million years of wind, water and ice eventually chiseled what once was a mammoth block of stone into a large convention of vertical rock formations that stand artistically at attention.
The City of Rocks, 28 miles northeast of the town of Deming, has become one of the state's most visited sites.
The area, which became a state park in 1953, operates under the purest of conditions....