Los Alamos is on a mesa, with cliffs on one side and Jemez mountains on the other. There were some local controversies related to zoning when I was there (name

Los Alamos is on a mesa, with cliffs on one side and Jemez mountains on the other. There were some local controversies related to zoning when I was there (namely, commercial real estate), but the issue is much broader and long-standing. I used to work for a PI who, during his internship days in the ~1980s, lived in a tent in the mountains the whole summer (he was a delightfully quirky person though).