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Experience Big Room Magic

CARLSBAD CAVERNS IS UNIQUE for the rock that it occupies and how it formed. Most caves form from the top down, but sulfuric acid helped create these from the bottom up. A few factors had to combine to…

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Five Things to Do This Weekend

1 Hop into Easter fun. Easter Eggstravaganza, Farmington Get into the Easter fun early at the Easter Eggstravaganza at Sycamore Park Community Center on Friday from 9 a.m. to noon. The Easter Bunny…

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Ahmed Obo's Next Move

WALKING INTO JAMBO CAFÉ, off busy Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe, feels like coming home. From the warm greetings to the chatter of happy diners and the clatter of cutlery on plates piled high with…

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Datebook: April 2023

IN JULY 1923, the New Mexico Highway Journal launched with a mission to elevate “the attractions of New Mexico as a national playground.” That journal—America’s original state magazine—became the…

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Editor's Letter: Dig Deep

WE HAD BARELY TURNED ONTO THE ENTRANCE road to Carlsbad Caverns National Park when my wife pointed to our left. “Look,” she said. “Stop the car.” Barbary sheep were everywhere, grazing along the…

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Explore Lechuguilla Cave

A CAVERS’ MAP IS DOTTED WITH QUESTION MARKS, indicating where other cavers have spotted a crack or crevasse that offers a possible unexplored passage. Some become impassably small. Some dead-end in…

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The Real Elfego Baca

IF ELFEGO BACA—who once held 80 rampaging Texas cowboys at bay for 36 hours—had lived to see his life portrayed in the Walt Disney TV-series [Elfego Baca], he would have enjoyed it immensely. He might…

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