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New Mexico Guide

The Land of Enchantment offers desert beauty and hot-air balloons

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Balloon Fiesta Guide

Albuquerque’s annual celebration of hot air is really cool. Every October, the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta fills the sky with hundreds of hot-air balloons, all ...

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Santa Fe, New Mexico: Oldest Church, State Capitol, Camel Rock

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Hiking the Catwalk in Glenwood, New Mexico

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Driving over the Chiricahua Mountains: Portal, AZ

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Gran Quivira – Salinas Pueblo Missions

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The Big Room at Carlsbad Caverns

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Albuquerque: Dinner at Sadie’s, then a Sandia Sunset

I saved some of Albuquerque’s best food, and best scenery, for my final evening in town. For the food, I ...

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Sep 11, 2016

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Albuquerque, NM – Downtown & Old Town

There’s one landmark in downtown Albuquerque that any serious road-tripper should see: the corner of Central and 4th. It doesn’t ...

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Loretto Chapel: Miracle Staircase Made by Jesus?

As the legend goes: The Loretto Chapel was built between 1873 and 1878. As was common at the time, there ...

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Sep 11, 2016

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Santa Fe, NM – St. Francis Cathedral

You can’t, or at least shouldn’t, visit Santa Fe without stepping inside of at least one of the town’s beautiful ...

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Sep 11, 2016

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Old Town, Santa Fe, NM

No matter where you are in Santa Fe, you’ll feel surrounded by the city’s historical and cultural riches. Nowhere is ...

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Sep 11, 2016

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Taos Pueblo, and Taos, New Mexico

This is the only picture I was allowed to take while on the pueblo, and truth be told, I wasn’t ...

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Sep 10, 2016

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Miracle Dirt at Santuario de Chimayo, New Mexico

El Santuario de Chimayo is a strange combination of roadside tourist attraction and holy shrine. Fortunately, the two contrasting definitions ...

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Sep 10, 2016

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The Turquoise Trail Byway From Albuquerque to Santa Fe

If one picture could sum up the entire trip up Rte. 14, this would be it. This is a beautiful ...

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Sep 10, 2016

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Sandia Mountains – Above Albuquerque

People who live in Albuquerque love the Sandia Mountains. The tall mountain range towers more than 5,000 feet above the ...

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Sep 10, 2016

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Mountainair & Manzano Mountains

In the tiny town of Mountainair, I was compelled to stop and take a few pictures of the brightly painted ...

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Sep 10, 2016

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Gran Quivira – Salinas Pueblo Missions

Atop a small hill in the middle of New Mexico’s nowhere, stands the ruins of an ancient city. Perhaps as ...

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Sep 10, 2016

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Scenic Drive: Carrizozo, Ruidoso, and Claunch, New Mexico

After visiting the Trinity Site, my primary goal for the day, I suddenly realized that I needed to figure out ...

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Sep 10, 2016

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Touring the Trinity Atomic Bomb Site, White Sands Missile Range

Just two days a year, New Mexico visitors are allowed to visit the site of an historic event that changed ...

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Sep 10, 2016

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The Very Large Array: Listening to Space

So here was my problem. I left the Catwalk Trail around 4:05. I wanted to arrive at the Very Large ...

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Hiking the Catwalk in Glenwood, New Mexico

While most of the Gila National Forest is remote and unreachable (without a long hike or horseback ride), you can ...

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Trail of the Mountain Spirits Byway

On the return trip from the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, I decided to take the long way around: NM ...

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Sep 10, 2016

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Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument

If you’re not afraid of a narrow road, and comfortable with curves, I suggest you take Rte. 15 the entire ...

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Sep 10, 2016

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New Mexico 152 – Into Silver City, NM

Our route joins NM Rte. 152 in what seems to be the middle of nowhere. Sure, there’s the (very) small ...

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Sep 10, 2016

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Lake Valley Byway & Ghost Town

The Lake Valley National Back Country Byway came as quite a surprise to me. I’m pretty sure almost no one ...

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Sep 10, 2016

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Organ Mountains and the Rio Grande Valley: La Mesa, Hatch

Chope’s Town Cafe, La Mesa, NM You can’t come to New Mexico without enjoying some authentic New Mexican food, and ...

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Alkali Flats Trail, White Sands National Monument

The longest and most challenging trail at White Sands National Monument also provides you with the best and most intimate ...

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White Sands National Monument

As you enter White Sands National Monument, the road runs alongside the edge of the dunes at first, then cuts ...

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Sep 10, 2016

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Artesia, NM to Alamogordo, NM Via US Rte. 82

This stretch of US 82 is a 110-mile microcosm of New Mexico, from the hot desert floor to cool mountains. ...

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The River That Crosses Itself: The Flume, Carlsbad, NM

A crumbling, soggy overpass on the north side of Carlsbad makes for an unlikely tourist attraction. Few people will probably ...

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Sep 10, 2016

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Carlsbad Caverns National Park: “The Big Room”

Whether you walk down through the Natural Entrance, or take the quick trip aboard the elevator, your next destination is ...

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Sep 10, 2016

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Carlsbad Caverns National Park: Natural Entrance

Carlsbad Caverns is every bit as impressive as the Grand Canyon or Yosemite. The only difference is, it’s underground–a fact ...

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Sep 10, 2016

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El Morro National Monument, Grants & Gallup New Mexico

After spending several hours in the Bisti Wilderness in northeastern New Mexico, I only had one other goal for Day ...

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Sep 3, 2016

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Bisti Badlands Wilderness Area, NM

They say that NASA faked the moon landing, by filming one of humanity’s greatest moments right here on earth, perhaps ...

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Sep 3, 2016

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Farmington, New Mexico at Night

By the time I rolled into Farmington, it was already dark. So, I did the only thing one can do ...

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Sep 3, 2016

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Chama, New Mexico

Perhaps the only reason that Chama is alive and well today, and the biggest reason to visit this mountain village ...

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Aug 14, 2016

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Northern New Mexico: Echo Amphitheater, Cebolla, Tierra Amarilla

I wasn’t lying when I said the landscape kept getting better, the further north you go on US Hwy. 84. ...

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Aug 14, 2016

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Abiquiu, New Mexico

When I told a friend (a native of New Mexico) about my plans to drive up from Santa Fe to ...

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Santa Fe, New Mexico: Oldest Church, State Capitol, Camel Rock

I rolled into Santa Fe just as it was starting to get dark. It’s a good thing that there was ...

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Aug 14, 2016

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Rowe & Pigeon’s Ranch, New Mexico on Old Route 66

Between San Jose and Rowe, following the old alignment of Route 66 is pretty simple. The frontage road sticks right ...

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San Jose, New Mexico On Old Route 66

San Jose is yet another traditional, small New Mexico town, that has exactly what–by this point on the trip–you’ve come ...

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Tecolote & Bernal, New Mexico On Old Route 66

South of Las Vegas, New Mexico and the tiny town of Romeroville (where Route 66 makes the turn westward), the ...

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Scenic Drive near Las Vegas, NM: Buena Vista, Golondrinas, Loma Parda

I felt like I was running a little ahead of schedule, as I prepared to leave Las Vegas, New Mexico. ...

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Aug 14, 2016

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Las Vegas, New Mexico

The town of Las Vegas, New Mexico wants you to know that it’s the original Las Vegas. Don’t worry, you ...

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Santa Rosa, New Mexico

After driving across the dry and dusty plains, Santa Rosa is surprisingly wet. Called the “City of Natural Lakes”, Santa ...

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Cuervo, New Mexico

Cuervo might not be a ghost town just yet, but it’s getting close. Interstate 40 cut through the middle of ...

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Route 66 West of Tucumcari: Montoya and Newkirk

Leaving Tucumcari headed westbound, you have no choice but to hop onto I-40 between exits 329 and 321. A remnant ...

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Aug 14, 2016

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Tucumcari (Tonite!), New Mexico

There are few towns along the Mother Road that are as closely tied to Route 66, as is Tucumcari. For ...

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San Jon, New Mexico

By the time I arrived in San Jon, I found myself in the middle of a fierce windstorm, with gusts ...

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Glenrio, Texas: A Route 66 Ghost Town

There’s something about Route 66 border towns. I first noticed it along the Oklahoma/Texas border, at Texola, Oklahoma. There was ...

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The Big Room at Carlsbad Caverns

After my long hike to Guadalupe Peak in Guadalupe Mountains National Park (just a few miles down the road from ...

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Driving over the Chiricahua Mountains: Portal, AZ

Chiricahua National Monument has a ‘back door’ of sorts. You can reach the park from the east, by driving over ...

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Silver City, New Mexico

Silver City is an old mining town in extreme southwestern New Mexico. In recent years, it’s found new life as ...

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Geronimo Scenic Byway: New Mexico 152

New Mexico Route 152 is a very curvy, mostly 2-lane road that connects the town of Silver City with Interstate ...

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Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

The oddly-named town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico provides a reasonable excuse to detour off of Interstate 25 for ...

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Socorro, New Mexico

Socorro, New Mexico is a small town along Interstate 25, about an hour south of Albuquerque. It has enough small-town ...

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The Bosque & West Bluff Park, ABQ

Albuquerque is a beautiful city, but it’s easy to lose sight of nature in the urban areas. If you find ...

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Nov 15, 2015

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Breaking Bad Filming Locations in Albuquerque

Of course you loved Breaking Bad. Everybody did. And now you can’t get over the fact that the show has ...

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Nov 12, 2015

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Fall Colors in Cibola National Forest, near Albuquerque

If you want to see Autumn colors like this, you need to go to Vermont in October, right? Actually, no, you ...

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Nov 12, 2015

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Volcanoes, Petroglyph National Monument

Albuquerque is a city defined by its mountains. To the east, the beautiful Sandia range rises up, looming over the ...

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