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Lama Foundation
Lama Foundation

Lama Foundation

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Lama Foundation is a spiritual community, educational facility and retreat center on about 105 acres adjoining the Carson National Forest, seventeen miles north of Taos at 8,600 feet in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The whole community is off grid: electricity comes from photovoltaic panels, sanitation from composting toilets, heat from wood, and water from a spring on the land supplemented by rainwater catchment. It was founded in 1967, which makes it one of the longest running communities of its kind in the Southwest. Life here is rustic by design and the climate is high, dry and cold.

Community details

Acreage
105 acres
Climate
High-altitude alpine
Infrastructure
Solar, Rain catchment

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Around Lama Foundation

Rinconada Loop Trail4.7 miRio Grande del Norte National Monume…4.8 mi1 mi

Data Source: Recreation.gov · Source: USGS GNIS · Thermal springs: NOAA NCEI (1980) · Public land: USGS PAD-US

Current conditions

Today · Fri

ClearHigh 56°F, low 32°FRain 0%Wind 15 kt, gusts 19

Air quality

16 Good

Taos Fire Station monitor, 28 km

Forecast from Open-Meteo global models (NOAA & ECMWF). Air quality: New Mexico Air Quality Bureau via EPA AirNow. Preliminary data, not verified.

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