Follow the Water Through Mills Canyon
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…
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Explore Río Grande del Norte National Monument
MY WIFE SEES IT BEFORE I DO. As we mount the cerro in silence, wind hisses across the sage and rocks and into the piñon and juniper. Above, ravens and vultures play on rising thermals. Below, pinyon…
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Suchness Keeps Taos Diners Coming Back
WHEN I ASKED a hardcore foodie friend to name the best meal she’d had in Taos recently, she replied easily: lamb loin with koji cabbage, mole poblano, chestnut puree, and mango at Suchness. “It was…
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Best New Mexico Summit Hikes
“IT’S CRAZY WHAT people think about New Mexico,” says Adam White, author of New Mexico Summits: 40 Best Mountain Hikes to 50 Peaks (FalconGuides). “We are not all low, dry desert. We have forests and…
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Whet Your Appetite in Arroyo Seco
CARROT CAKE IS MOST DEFINITELY a breakfast appetizer. With the July afternoon temperature headed toward 90, I settle into the oak-shaded patio of Arroyo Seco’s Sol Food Café for coffee and a generous…
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Hike Santa Fe to Taos
“THIS LAND LENDS DEPTH TO MY LIFE,” says Pam Neely, author of The Santa Fe to Taos Thru-Hike Guidebook. “It’s utterly gorgeous in the high country.” The Santa Fe–based writer feels most at home in New…
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Safe Passage for New Mexico’s Wildlife
IN JULY 2020, Squeaks left Santa Ana Pueblo. Fitted with a GPS tracking collar by the pueblo’s Department of Natural Resources, the subadult male mountain lion made an extraordinary 558-mile journey…
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4 New Mexico Slot Canyon Hikes
CATWALK NATIONAL RECREATION TRAIL Located in the Gila National Forest, this two-mile out-and-back hike snakes its way through a slot canyon along a suspended walkway that follows a mining…
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Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks Reopens
“THE STRANGE FORMATIONS of rock, sculpted by time and elements, rise like sentinels over the land, whispering the secrets of ages past,” wrote 19th-century Swiss archaeologist Adolph Bandelier about…
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2024 True Heroes: Greg Hallstrom
ONE BUSY AFTERNOON during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Greg Hallstrom received a call at his Albuquerque office. A young man had been injured in a tragic car…
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