Casitas de Gila Little Houses of Gila is a cluster of five cozy southwestern adobe-style guesthouses, four miles outside of the tiny community of Gila (HEE-la) in Southwestern New Mexico. Nestled among juniper and pion pines, on an ancient river terrace overlooking Bear Creek, the Casitas occupy lands that were once favorite hunting grounds of Apaches only 120 years ago. Quiet enough to hear the flap of a raven's wings overhead. Clear enough night skies to see the Milky Way in all its splendour.