The John P. Stapp Air & Space Park is an outside display of rockets, missiles, rocket engines and other items of relevance to man's space exploration effort. Of special interest is the F-1 engine like the ones used to propel astronauts on their journeys to the moon. The park is named after Dr. John P. Stapp, who rode the Sonic Wind I rocket sled, also on display here, to a speed of 632 MPH on December 10, 1954.

The Toy Train Depot has over 1200 feet of model railroad track bringing back memories of life as it was in the steam era. Hundreds of model and toy trains are on display in the five rooms of this 100 year old train depot. Displays of engines, car, cabooses and other nostalgic models line the walls. The ride on the passenger train travels over two miles along historic Alameda Park.

White Sands National Monument. At the northern end of the Chihuahuan Desert lies a mountain ringed valley called the Tularosa Basin. Rising from the heart of this basin is one of the world's great natural wonders - the glistening white sands of New Mexico. Here, great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 275 square miles of desert and have created the world's largest gypsum dune field. The brilliant white dunes are ever changing: growing, cresting, then slumping, but always advancing.White Sands National Monument preserves a major portion of this gypsum dune field, along with the plants and animals that have successfully adapted to this constantly changing environment.