Amenities
Comfort at home, friends next door, and sunshine all around in Ruidoso, NM.
La Tierra keeps comfort simple: solid cottage homes on one level, a community building at the center, and a mountain village all around. It has worked for more than 25 years.
01 · Your home
Inside your apartment home.
- Single-story living, everything on one level
- Full kitchens
- Reclaimed-timber post and beam construction
02 · Community & grounds
Shared spaces that bring neighbors together.
- Community building with the leasing office
- On-site professional management
- Mature trees and landscaped walkways
- Calm, wooded mountain setting
03 · Green-built
A community that works with the high-plains sun.
Long before it was fashionable, La Tierra was built green, and you feel it every month: steadier temperatures, quieter rooms, and lower utility bills.
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Reclaimed timber, given a second life
The posts and beams that frame each home were salvaged and reused rather than cut new. A quarter century later, that weathered timber is still the signature of the community.
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Recycled building materials
Recycled and responsibly sourced materials went into the homes from the start, in 1999, years before green building became common practice.
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Infill smart site
The community was built inside the existing village rather than out on raw forest land, keeping groceries, healthcare, and village services a short trip away.
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Built into the mountain, not over it
Homes sit among the existing pines and follow the wooded hillside, so summers stay cool at nearly 7,000 feet and the forest stays part of everyday life.
La Tierra came first: the community that began a New Mexico family of green-built affordable communities, whose newer sisters have earned Enterprise Green Communities certification and U.S. Green Building Council LEED ratings up to Platinum.
La Tierra · Ruidoso, NM
Senior Apartments · Ruidoso, New Mexico · 55+
Come see it for yourself.
The best way to know if La Tierra feels like home is to visit. Call us and we will answer your questions and set up a tour.