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Site of many plane wrecks and blown-over trucks, Guadalupe Peak, and the even more proment El Capitan, have drawn people to stare at their starkness and rugged beauty for centuries. At sunset, the view is spectacular!

Though no longer legal, a breath-taking experience could be had by dropping down to a couple hundred feet above the ground near the Carlsbad Caverns National Park's visitor center, and then climbing westward with the gently rising terrain towards Guadalupe peak in an airplane capable of at least 200 Miles Per Hour, you experience a quick change of landscape that goes from the desert of Carlsbad, to the trees near Guadalupe Peak, and then, soaring out into the wide open space above Salt Flat, you suddenly find yourself four-thousand feet above the ground with a view of the Franklin Mountains a hundred miles to the west.