Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Desert state park in Otero County, US

Oliver Lee Memorial State Park covers 640 acres at the base of Dog Canyon in the Sacramento Mountains, at 4,400 feet elevation. It has two separate parcels: a southern tract with Lee's 1893 ranch house and a northern tract studied by archaeologists. The park offers camping, hiking, picnicking, wildlife viewing, a nature trail, and guided tours of the ranch house.

Oliver Milton Lee arrived from Buffalo Gap, Texas, in 1893 and built a 320-acre ranch just south of Dog Canyon, with a ranch house, barns, corrals, reservoir, slaughterhouse and an irrigation system fed by the canyon stream. He sold the ranch in 1907; after several owners the land became part of White Sands National Monument in 1939. The southern parcel passed to the state of New Mexico in 1998, and the park was established in 1980.

The ranch house at Dog Canyon was built by Oliver Lee in 1893 and is shown as it looked while he lived there. Nearby on the interpretive trail west of the visitor center stands the partly reconstructed cabin of François-Jean Rochas, the canyon's first homesteader, who planted an orchard and built retaining walls on the ridges.

The Dog Canyon National Recreational Trail climbs from the canyon mouth for views of the Tularosa Basin and the Organ Mountains. The partly reconstructed Rochas cabin stands on the interpretive trail west of the visitor center. Camping, picnicking and guided ranch house tours are available; the desert gets only 11.6 inches (290 mm) of rain a year, so carry water.

Dog Canyon holds year-round flowing springs and water pools beneath cottonwood trees, forming a green oasis within the surrounding dry landscape. These water sources were crucial to why people first settled in this area.