MainStreet Truth or Consequences

Constructed 1970. Ralph Edwards Park is located on Riverside between Cedar & Birch. Named for the host of the “Truth or Consequences” game show. The park entrance is just east of downtown, where Broadway, Austin and Cedar converge. The park offers shade trees, picnic tables, a gazebo, basketball courts, playground Read more…

The Rio Grande is New Mexico’s longest flowing river, bisecting the state east and west and providing essential water to numerous communities between the Colorado and Texas borders. The river was harnessed by prehistoric Native American peoples and later Spanish Colonial settlers who redirected the waters through irrigation ditches called Read more…

Constructed 1938. This courthouse, built in 1938, was the only PWA courthouse project to embrace territorial revival style. It was designed by Wilfred Stedman in 1937 when the voters chose to move the county seat from Hillsboro to Hot Springs (later known as Truth of Consequences). — Source: “Public Art Read more…

Constructed 1929. Built in 1929, Sierra Grande Lodge is part of the Hot Springs Bathhouse and Commercial Historic District in Truth or Consequences, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The transformations it has undergone in the many years since its origination as the first bathhouse have Read more…

Constructed 1940. Completed in 1940, the post office in downtown Truth or Consequences (known at the time as Hot Springs) was built according to the standardized plan also used for the Deming and Portales post offices, but with less ornamentation. The post office is listed on the National Register of Read more…

Constructed 1996. Park Grounds: open daily, year-round. Hamilton Military Museum: open Tues-Sat 10am-4pm & Sun 12-4pm Per the Truth or Consequences Veterans Memorial website, the Park is dedicated to the memories of family and friends that have dedicated their lives to the service of our Great Country. We encourage all Read more…