New Mexico’s Lost Watering Holes
Thornton-Curry Saloon. George Curry, a former Rough Rider and governor of New Mexico Territory, briefly operated a Lincoln saloon with cattleman J.Y. Thornton. Built around 1887, the adobe building…
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Who Ya Gonna Call
Duran might look like a ghost town, but community members have plans for preservation. Photograph by Andrew Kornylak. Read up. Web searches yield a host of info on older towns, along with…
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Essential Guide to Ghost Towns
A tumbleweed meanders down Folsom’s once busy streets. Photograph by Andrew Kornylak. Good Haunts Abandoned, barely there, or rebounding with new purpose, towns, hotels, and restaurants all across…
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Good Haunts
A storm brews over an abandoned home in Yeso. FOR LONG MINUTES, THE ONLY SOUND is the wind rising and falling as it blows across New Mexico’s eastern plains. From somewhere along a street of empty…
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Unlocking the Sevilleta
I STOOD ATOP A MESA in central New Mexico, rugged mountains looming to the west, a lush river valley below. The lights of cars and trucks traveling the ribbon of I-25 winked on as the sun set. I knew…
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