Modern highways crisscross the region, and goods and services are available in every town.
The town of Los Alamos is small, and most of its amenities are concentrated along several blocks of one main street, where county government offices, our post office, library, cultural center, county museum, and many shops and services are located. Parts of Los Alamos are historic and still reminiscent of the town designed by the U.S. Army during the war years in the early 1940s. Albuquerque has a population of approximately 660,000 people. The next largest city is the State's capital, Santa Fe, which has a population of about 68,000 people. A portion of a desert does extend from Mexico into southern New Mexico but New Mexico's scenery is beautiful and diverse.