Golf in Alamogordo

Alamogordo sits at 4,350 feet in the Tularosa Basin, framed on the east by the Sacramento Mountains and on the west by the White Sands gypsum dune fields of White Sands National Park. The city's economy is closely tied to Holloman Air Force Base and the New Mexico Space History Museum, which commemorates the basin's role in missile testing and the space program since the 1940s. Desert Lakes Golf Course gives the city its primary recreational golf outlet, operating in the warm, semi-arid climate of the basin floor where 287 days of sunshine per year and minimal annual precipitation create firm, fast playing conditions. The Sacramento Mountains offer a visual counterpoint to the flatness of the surrounding basin — the resort community of Cloudcroft, with its high-elevation courses, lies just 16 miles away by road.