Loma Colorado in Rio Rancho, NM

Loma Colorado is a master-planned community in Rio Rancho, laid out on roughly 433 acres along Loma Colorado Boulevard between Northern Boulevard and High Resort Boulevard. Its plan mixes single-family blocks with close to half a million square feet of retail, office and light industrial space, and it moves traffic through a series of roundabouts rather than signals. More than a fifth of the land is given over to parks and open space, with about three miles of trails linking the neighborhood to a nine-acre city park, the public library and the indoor aquatic center. Pulte built most of the houses. A community association maintains the shared grounds.

The Loma Colorado Community Association holds the covenants and the shared property, with AAM, LLC managing it day to day. Dues go toward the common areas and landscaped grounds, road upkeep and security.

Three named pockets sit inside the community: Loma Colorado East, Tres Colinas and Meseta Vista. Tres Colinas is the gated one, where the association issues gate remotes and street parking is left for guests. The other two sit on open streets under the same association.

The trail system reaches Rio Rancho High School and the city sports complex, and Rio Rancho Public Schools also draws these streets to Eagle Ridge Middle School and Ernest Stapleton Elementary. Commercial ground concentrates at the Northern Boulevard corner, where a retail center covers about twenty-nine acres.