Fall for These Three Colorful Hikes
EACH FALL, NORTHERN NEW MEXICO’S glimmering aspen groves draw hikers and leaf peepers to bathe in the golden light. But for those willing to go farther afield, the Land of Enchantment’s color wheel…
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Fifteen years ago, at the end of a six-month road trip, Christina Selby visited Santa Fe and never left. In her quest to write and photograph stories that engage readers in the natural world, she has kayaked the Sea of Cortez, followed honeybees through the Himalayas, and pursued lost monkeys in the Amazon. She spent the past two years crisscrossing New Mexico in search of wildflowers for her new book, Best Wildflower Hikes New Mexico (Falcon Guides). The project took her from the coldest alpine lakes to the hottest deserts in the state and everywhere in between. “Because it was my job to hike, I did it on weekdays, when there were few others on the trails—a fact of life in New Mexico, for which I am grateful every day.”
EACH FALL, NORTHERN NEW MEXICO’S glimmering aspen groves draw hikers and leaf peepers to bathe in the golden light. But for those willing to go farther afield, the Land of Enchantment’s color wheel…
Read MoreHEADING EAST ON I-40, ROLLING HILLS covered in piñon-juniper scrub give way to the grasslands of the southern Great Plains. Other than the big blue sky and an occasional dramatic thunderstorm, the…
Read MoreWHETHER IT'S THE SPRING FLUSH OF GOLD POPPIES in the southern deserts, a rare flowering cactus in the badlands, or the wildflower-filled meadows of the northern mountains, New Mexico wildflower…
Read MoreIn January 2021, Hannah Marx joined the University of New Mexico as an associate professor and curator of the Herbarium of the Museum of Southwestern Biology, which has a collection of 130,582…
Read MoreOlivia Carril has a honey of a gig. The Santa Fe Girls’ School science teacher and coauthor of The Bees in Your Backyard: A Guide to North America’s Bees (Princeton University Press) travels the state…
Read MoreMarcy Scott, co-owner of Robledo Vista Nursery with her husband, Jimmy Zabriskie , in Las Cruces, has been a passionate birder for almost 40 years. So it’s not surprising that her two pursuits came…
Read MoreYOU NEVER QUITE KNOW what you might learn—or encounter—on a guided hike with a trained professional. Randy Roch, a ranger at the Río Grande del Norte National Monument, recalls one such spring trek…
Read MoreTHE MOUNTAINS OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO allow hikers to experience five of New Mexico’s life zones, from foothills to alpine tundra. Each environment has characteristic plant communities that have…
Read MoreUNDER THE YELLOW-GREEN JUNIPERS and blue-green piñons, a flush of wildflower color has arrived in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Santa Fe. In mid-May, Tesuque Creek cascades down…
Read MoreThe wildflowers are listed clockwise from top left. Illustration by Chris Philpot. Cowpen daisy Known locally as añil del muerto (“bluing of death”), this cheery yellow flower fills vacant lots and…
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