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  • 334. McNees Crossing

    A man in jeans and a cowboy hat walks along the bedrock wash of a trail crossing.
    McNees Crossing

    McNees Crossing of Corrumpa Creek is three and a half miles west of the Oklahoma state line, then a mile a a half south on New Mexico Highway 406. This rock crossing, which is still visible, was named for a young trader and scout killed there in 1828. The crossing was also a campground. According to Josiah Gregg’s diary, a group of traders celebrated the Fourth of July there in 1831. The site retains much of its original appearance.