“THIS WHOLE MOUNTAIN VALLEY wasn’t some wilderness nobody visited,” says Dana Dick, Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument’s lead interpretive park ranger. “It was home to people. There’s evidence of ...

Plan your weekend in New Mexico, October 9–11, with fall festivals, Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebrations, plus the XTERRA World Championship in Ruidoso.

US 380 runs past Smokey Bear Historical Park, in Capitán, which sits 85 miles east of San Antonio (off I-25) and 70 miles west of Roswell (off US 285).

A SLOW PLUME OF DUST HANGS behind my truck, then dissolves with the wind. For miles, the shortgrass prairie of eastern New Mexico offers little beyond itself. Side oats, blue grama, buffalo grass, and ...

ONE DECEMBER DAY IN 1920, Isadore Freed, a Russian émigré to New York and then Iowa, stepped off an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway train at the Albuquerque depot. Behind him, the Alvarado Hotel ...

Just south of Taos, the Stakeout sits atop Outlaw Hill among a forest of piñon and juniper. Known primarily as an events venue—where couples often exchange vows against the dramatic backdrop of the ...

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Over the years, Fort Stanton has been a military fort, a tuberculosis hospital, a prison, and a rehab center. While guests can normally only visit seven of the 85 buildings, on the last Friday of the ...

FAST BECOMING ONE OF the most anticipated film festivals in the Southwest, the Santa Fe International Film Festival turns the City Different into a cinephile’s paradise with hundreds of films ...

SILVER CITY HAS A LONG artistic history that has only been enhanced over the last decade by the evolution of the Southwest Print Fiesta. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the four-day bonanza of print ...

FROM THE SKY at last year’s Red Rock Balloon Rally, the contours of Gallup make a stunning kind of sense. When it’s rising over the city’s eastern side just past dawn, a hot-air balloon turns out to ...