High Rolls is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Otero County, New Mexico, United States.

High Rolls includes a general store, a post office, an elementary school, two churches, and sometimes a bar.

[citation needed] Mexicans who settled in the Tularosa Basin in the mid-1880s obtained water rights to graze cattle in the fertile canyons of the Sacramento Mountains.

P.M. “Uncle Button” Nelson, Jack Tucker and William Karr married sisters and moved into the region in 1885.

Snow, Hamilton Kimberlin, Michael Mulchay, George Van Sickle, Eugene Sullivan, Fletcher and James Thompson, J.M.

Other activities in the High Rolls/Mountain Park area included a poultry farm, a sawmill, a blacksmith shop and a shingle mill run by water from the Fresnal stream.

The 160 acre Skyline Ranch of the YMCA was a well-known feature of the region from its start in 1908 as Camp Mescalero until it was sold and became private property in the 1980s.

Probably the best known native of the area is Bill Mauldin, nationally syndicated cartoonist, Pulitzer Prize winner known for his wartime cartoons often featuring Willie and Joe.

Mauldin was born and raised in Mountain Park and his first cartoon appeared in the Alamogordo High School newspaper.