"Anytime a state park is closed there's definitely an impact to the economy of those rural and urban areas that support outdoor recreation," Toby Velaquez, the director the the New Mexico State Parks Division, said.
As multiple fires burn wildlands and homes in other areas of New Mexico, Gila National Forest officials announced Thursday that fire danger levels on the forest have been raised to “high.” “A fire danger rating of ‘high’ is defined as ‘all fine dead fuels ignite readily, and fires start easily from most causes,” a Forest Service spokesman said in a release. “Unattended brush and campfires are likely to escape. Fires spread …