Old Hat, New Hat
"COWBOYS ALWAYS WORE THEIR HATS out of necessity,” says Barney Coppedge, owner of This Ol’ Hat, in Artesia. “To keep the sun off your face and the rain off your head.” After 28 years spent working as…
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Feel the Love at Hi-D-Ho
MIKA MYERS GREW UP PREPARING BURGERS with her grandmother, Patricia Dulany, who owned Alamogordo’s Hi-D-Ho Drive-In from the late 1970s until Myers took over as owner. Myers, who also works as a…
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Questions? Rangers Have Answers
ALONG NM 35, in the southern range of the Gila National Forest, a sign shaped in the National Forest Service’s trademark trapezoid bears a question mark. No words. No arrows. Just that. Puzzled…
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Joshua Toddy Gets Back to His Roots
AT AROUND 6 A.M., JOSHUA TODDY (DINÉ) WAKES UP, grabs his jacket, and steps outside to release 25 chickens from their coop onto his one-acre homestead in Nahodishgish, near Crownpoint. He grows…
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Step Into the Old West
GERONIMO TRAIL GUEST RANCH, WINSTON “There are only a handful of original private properties that were homesteaded back in the day before New Mexico was a state, before the national forests,” says…
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Get a Taste of Western Hospitality
THE NARROW ROAD LEADING TO LOS PINOS GUEST RANCH splits away from NM 63 and cuts into the side of a forested ridge along the Upper Pecos River in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The family-run ranch…
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The Story Behind Ethyl the Whale
CREATED FROM SINGLE-USE PLASTICS, the 82-foot Ethyl the Whale sculpture raises its dorsal ridge behind Santa Fe Community College. Commissioned by the Monterey Bay Aquarium, on the California coast…
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Cozy Up to These Fireplaces
OJO CALIENTE, OJO CALIENTE Ojo Caliente understands the power of warmth on an elemental level. Nourish your body and soul at one of New Mexico’s oldest and best-known spa resorts, where the hot…
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True Heroes 2022: Enrique Macias Moreno
ENRIQUE MACIAS MORENO CAN’T FORGET THE HELP his family received from the community’s food bank when he was growing up on a ranch in Hagerman, on the outskirts of Roswell. As an adult, he’s turned his…
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Let A Pro Curate Your Art Trip
WITH OVER 100 GALLERIES PACKED INTO a one-mile stretch, Santa Fe’s Canyon Road can sometimes bewilder newcomers. It’s also just one slice of the City Different’s roughly 250 galleries, which showcase…
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