Rita Blanca National Grassland
contact office in Clayton, New Mexico, 505 374 9652, (https://www2.tpwd.state.t...). To the north and northwest of town, over 77,000 acres of what was once the XIT ranch are now preserved in this parcel of Cibola National Forest. The area provides excellent birdwatching and offers limited antelope hunting by special permit.Stratford, northeast on Texas 54, is a small historic depot town with many homes from 1900-1910.
