Place guide
Tolar Explosion Site
Site of a 1944 train disaster where a shipment of 500-pound bombs exploded, devastating the tiny community of Tolar and scattering wreckage across the area.
📍GPS: 34.43, -103.93
TMP: Tolar Explosion Site
Temporary place page. Full write-up coming soon.
Nearby places
Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner Historic Site
The site of the tragic Navajo Long Walk internment and, nearby, the grave of Billy the Kid.
Billy the Kid Museum
A museum in Fort Sumner dedicated to the life and legend of the infamous outlaw Billy the Kid.
Fort Sumner
A village on the Pecos River in eastern New Mexico, near the Bosque Redondo Memorial and Billy the Kid historic sites.