Unit 33 sits out east of Artesia and southeast of Roswell, way down in the flat southeastern corner where New Mexico stops looking like the West and starts looking like the southern plains. The defining feature is the Caprock—the Mescalero Escarpment—a long step that splits the lower flatlands from the higher sand-hill country to the east, and the Mescalero Sands North Dune OHV area sits right up on it where bare dunes and old cottonwoods break the monotony. This is country that runs around 3,300 to 4,500 feet, mostly prairie grass and shinnery west of the rim, with a dry north-south riverbed down the middle that holds whatever brush and cover there is. It's not glamour terrain and nobody's posting hero shots from here, but the mule deer have genuinely been getting better the last few years and there's pronghorn scattered across the open ground for anyone who likes to belly-crawl a flat. The good news for a guy on a budget of points is access—this is one of the more honestly public units down here, around 58 percent open, with the public split pretty evenly between State Trust and BLM. US 380, US 82 and US 285 are your spine roads, and a dense web of dirt and gravel two-tracks peels off them so you can actually get to most of the public ground without begging across a gate. That said, most everything north of 380 goes private, so keep your map honest. Antelope habitat is limited enough that pressure bunches up where the country's right, and you'll be sharing the dunes with ATV traffic on the weekends. Artesia and Roswell are your fuel-and-motel towns, Lovington's the play if your working the far east side, and cell service is decent near the highways and the oilfield infrastructure but gets thin once your down in the riverbed or out on the sand. Bring water, bring a spare, and dont expect shade.