There's no doubt what this Medicine Wheel is for! These are the antennae of the Very Large Array, a radio telescope on the Plains of San Augustin near Socorro, New Mexico. A self-guided walking path here ranks as one of the best observatory tours I've ever enjoyed. A high, dark campsite in the mountains southeast of the VLA is the finest site from which I've ever used a telescope. The access road to the NFS campsites turns off to the south several miles east of the VLA's visitors' center. On the gravel access road, drive south through the telescope -- across the eastern arm of the Y-shaped array -- and keep going until the road grows narrow, rutted and high on the shoulder of Mount Withington (it's the mountain in the distance to the right in the photograph).

Tableau scrappes.