Our Surrounding Areas: Artesia has a warm, semi-arid climate with hot summers and mild winters. It offers outdoor recreation opportunities, including access to the nearby Pecos River and Carlsbad Caverns National Park, which is about an hour’s drive south. It also has a nearby city to the north (approximately 45 min), Roswell, NM (population 48,035), which has several more dining and shopping options, and is rumored to be a crash site of a UFO in 1947.
Lubbock, TX (population 264,973) is approximately 2 and ½ hours away headed northeast.
Midland/Odessa TX (254,660) is approximately 2 and ½ hours away headed southeast.
El Paso, TX (population 678,958) is approximately 3 hours away headed southwest.
Albuquerque, NM (560,274) is approximately 3 and ½ hours away headed northwest.