Las Cruces Overview | An informative introduction to Las Cruces, New Mexico 

I absolutely love Las Cruces. The views, food, and environment there is phenomenal. Hidden Gem too, most folks are too obsessed with Bigger cities

The skyline 😂😂 haha the white sand dunes look incredible though!!! And the view of those mountains!

I have travelled to many beautiful destinations, but I loved Las Cruces. It stands out to me as top five places I have been. NYC isn't even one of them. I would love to settle down there in the future. Las Cruces stole my heart.

People are very healthy here. Messsilla has grown. I see the most beautiful skies. I love the blue skies. Every day. Those Organ mountains, they play sounds. I love it. Echoes. .. and it's relaxing.

There is a rest area just west of the city on I-10 as you start to drop down into the Mesilla valley. If you ever get a chance to see the perfect sunset fade behind you and the lights of the city coming up from that vantage point, you will not be disappointed. You can see a perfect view of the glowing Organ Mountains in the background draped by orange, violet, red and blue skies with the lights of the entire city below. It's amazing. When I attended engineering college in Cruces, I used to go out there just to see it then turn around and go back home to continue to study.

I love, love, LOVE, Las Cruces! I miss living there when I was stationed at Holloman Air Force Base. I can't wait to retire there!

It’s a hidden gem. Beautiful city!!! Used to live there. I’ve live in Northern & Southern, CA, the Austin, TX area, Nashville, Charleston & Vegas area & to me there is something so special about the calmness & beauty of the Las Cruces area. Having White Sands there to go watch subsets 😍😍 makes even better.

I only live 45 minutes away from Las Cruces I live in El Paso Texas I would like to move to Las Cruces NM.

Thanks for the video. Las Cruces was the nearest town when I was assigned to WSMR, Apr '62 to Apr '63. I spent a lot of time there hanging out at the Shamrock drive inn restaurant which was approximately East of Main and North of Lohman as I recall. We used to drag race on the unfinished portion of I-25 from Lohman Ave going north. There was another drive inn near Mesquite that we also frequented. Also frequented Sunland Race park near El Paso but in NM. I always had a vision of retiring in Las Cruces but that didn't work out. Thanks again for the memory refresh.

I have a lot of history in Las Cruces. My mom's family is from Mesilla (Acosta/Martinez) and they used to own a large part of Mesilla and what is now Four Points until one of my great grandfathers gambled most of it away when he started borrowing on land. My Auntie Lori dated one of the Stahmann boys of the Stahmann pecan orchards too. My mom and her siblings all grew up in four points in an adobe house my grandfather built. My Auntie Sonja's husband was contractor who built many of the houses east of Tortugas/the A mountain. Most of my family still lives down there and we still take part in the pilgrimage from Tortugas pueblo to up Tortugas mountain every December.

I grew up in Alamogordo and I always loved going to las Cruces as a kid, because it was pretty much the closest city there Is to Alamogordo and the view on the way there is breathtaking.

Wow, this brings back memories and shows me how much has changed. My sister and I are getting ready to travel to Las Cruces next year. It's been 40 years since high school and 23 years since our last visit. I hope we have time to tour the spaceport.

Las Cruces is such a beautiful place, and the fact that it has a spaceport just north of it is wild!

Wow, surprised to see overview on Las Cruces. I live there for two years. It's nice. I loved Mesilla. I hung out at El Patio Bar most weekend nights - always live band. I ate shark burritos in Mesilla once. I loved the surrounding Chihuahuan Desert.

I expect nothing less of great from you, and you have delivered once again.

Seeing the Organs from basically anywhere was probably one of my favorite and most comforting things about Cruces. Really cool channel concept, subscribed :)

I adored living in LC in my early 20’s. Made good friends there and really miss the food, kind people, and beautiful landscapes. Very unique place compared to the rest of New Mexico. I need to plan a visit for a bowl of posolé and a hike around Organs.

I love Las Cruces! I would love to move back to that beautiful city. I left Las Cruces in 1997 and when I went back last year and it changed a lot and more than doubled in size.

nice video ,thanks

Absolutely love the idea of this series, especially in the short form. Super simple and awesome!

Nice video.. Thanks for sharing...

Come from Georgia, Atlanta. This is going to be completely different but I’m ready.🙋🏾‍♀️

I just love New Mexico's second largest city. It has palm trees everywhere. Upstate NM don't have any palms because it's too cold. That's what's amazing about New Mexico there is Rocky mountains to the north and palm trees to the South.

I have been here 2 years and I love it.

Former Las Cruces resident here who regrets moving. I do have more opportunities where I live here in Illinois, but I'd much prefer Las Cruces. Any chance I'd get to move back, I'll take it. Thanks for a great video on my old hometown.

Great video. Thank you!

Nice video NIce City 👍😎. NICE CITY...😊

Really interesting one, never knew much about Las Cruces other than that it existed and was the second largest city in NM lol, nice to get actual information about it!

I am going to Las Cruces this summer. I miss living there, which is why I am going to go visit.

Awww I grew up in Cruces in the 80s while my dad worked at WSMR ..went to valley view elementary & Zia middle.. good childhood memories 🥰

I’m enjoying your videos! I’m recovering from surgery & I feel like I’ve been on a worldwide tour last few days. Thank you!

I visited LC last year and loved it! Awesome food, friendly people, and a cool farmers market downtown. Mesilla is a gem too. Under the right circumstances I'd love to retire there, especially if I could convince my son to move there also. Something else not mentioned in the vid is besides the beautiful Organs there are some decently high mountains to the northeast and northwest that are an easy drive and can offer some heat relief or a snow fix depending on the time of year. Oh, and LC has palm trees! Who'dve thought they'd find those in New Mexico?

I genuinely enjoyed this tbh

I LOVE LAS CRUCES TOO

Great Work ❤

Great video and channel

Nice little city

I'll be visiting in July.

Lots to see there. We went to White Sands when I was a kid and I remember the cool air up at the mountain pass between White Sands & Las Cruces. We turned off the a/c and rolled down the windows. It really set my mind to thinking how this mountain air could be so different than the hot desert air below. I didn’t realize this city was the pecan capital! The space port is a bonus for this city. Spaceport has some beautiful architecture. ****So….If you do some more cities in the 100k-200k range, research Akron, Ohio. They actually have a surprisingly nice skyline! Not sure why…maybe a historical relic from their steel mill days of yesteryear.

❤ Las Cruces

Great video. You should take a look at Spokane wa. It’s a cool city with lots of interesting history

I lije the videos on cities that not everyone knows about! You should find some more under the radar cities like Des Moines, Grand Rapids, Fargo, Cheyenne etc

I love living here. It really is a good place to live. Just like any city, it has its cons. Overall, it is a nice place.

Going there for work next month, I love transformers haha I have to visit the white dunes.

I hope many tech companies would move to las cruces new mexico

The only speeding ticket I got (so far) in my 40 + years of driving was driving through Las Cruces. That's all I know of that town.

Throwing in a vote for Sioux Falls if you're planning on making more videos on smaller cities

Las Cruces does have a skyline: The Organ Mountains! 😮

Nice city but I’ve always wondered how real estate is so expensive there considering that there aren’t a lot of high paying jobs there.

That scene in Transformers was filmed where Holloman AFB meets White Sands. I know first hand because I was stationed there.

We are torn between three cities in which to move. Alamogordo, Tucson or Las Cruces.

I was looking at some of the other comments and it seems like the people who live in Cruces either hate it or love it. But I do like living here It’s just probably not everyone’s forte

I hope you do a New Orleans video

Can you please do Denver next?

cool video...but you know there's a "City Nerd" on YT?

It does lack entertainment but it does have some and I do believe that they are adding laser tag and bowling soon 👍🏻

No review on Spokane yet but you have Las Cruces?

Providence RI video coming soon?

I love living in the Borderland!

That’s were I live born and raised

I’m moving there in 3 months white sand and no water that’s pretty interesting

Do one on Phoenix please! 😊

please make international cities

Anybody moving here should know that this city is full of contradictions. Although beautiful, the lack of services can be difficult. Its hard to find honest mechanics and sometimes the hospital has faulty a/c and cannot operate their operating rooms. You may not be comfortable shopping in different strip malls due to panhandlers. The homeless are cropping up everywhere in encampments and in various neighborhoods so you should always be aware of your surroundings due to attacks and crime. The food here is delicious and its not a loud busy city so depending on where you live it can be a peaceful place. It isnt close to any large city (el paso is not a city I go to) so you will have to drive 3 hours to get to Tucson, 4 hrs to Albuquerque. As a border town, the crime is noteworthy and police do their best but cant address the burglaries as well as we would want. Just today in broad daylight a pretty scary guy looking for money approached me as I was finishing washing my car, I jumped in and got out of there. Looked out of it, maybe on drugs, IDK. The mountains are stunning and so gorgeous. Just be cautious, even in the day time. For the best info sign up on FB- las cruces community watch. People post everything all day - accidents, crimes, events, good deeds, etc.

Donna Anna.

Lifelong Resident. Whereabouts did you live??

I came here for NMSU for college. Omg I’m so glad to finally be leaving! Jesus, in the 2.5 years I’ve been here, had my key from stolen at a gym in broad daylight, my girlfriends gym bag stolen, uncles house robbed, fought crackheads being suspicious on our property late at night 3 times, at a ditch by our house, a crackhead overdosed and his friends took his drugs off his body and left him there dead all night, 2 times a drunk plowed through a concrete wall on our property, and CRACKHEADS EVERYWHERE! Screamed at me in my car countless times for no reason, and the icing on the cake (what made me decide to leave) was that a schizophrenic fentanyl addict killed a police officer in broad daylight with a kitchen knife! Permanently disturbed me, I’ll never be able to forget that tragedy. Prices here are ridiculous, and some jobs break federal law and actually pay below minimum wage. And the only way to be comfortable here is if you live in Sonoma ranch, the top 20% wealthiest population here. This place is turning into Albuquerque. I’m so relieved to finally be leaving this doomed city

Do they get Tornadoes?

Donny Ana? 💀

I lost my virginity at White Sands Missle base. Who can say that?

Las cruces is a god forsaken town that will suck your soul. And I can say that because I was born and raised in that hell hole.

If you don’t like heavy traffic,in a town that’s not set up for it, be best to stay the hell outta here!! 😩😩😩

Don’t come the summers are way to Hot!! Here run away far away lol…… There is not much for kids to do here .. not much entertainment ..

you think appearances matter and so skyline is important. c'mon kid (sorry to use the word kid but not sure i've heard a more cringe worthy viewpoint). a city can have a great "appearance" without a big skyline. in fact, i would say it makes a city appear nicer when it does not have a big skyline. substance should always outweigh appearances anyway.

Las Cruces, like California is a beautiful place but politics have ruined it.

Please do not move here; we like it as it is: small and peaceful. They said there are lots of jobs in Texas: go to Texas. Thank you.

I live here born and raised this place is boring as hell there not much going on here but it's a peaceful place no disasters, no riots and no dumb ass LGBT protests, just normal hard working people living peaceful lives

That tacky monstrosity of a roadrunner west of town is absolutely hideous.