Fly Away to the Gila National Forest
WHEN THERE ARE 3.3 MILLION acres of the Gila National Forest to hike, bike, camp, fish, photograph, and explore, you don’t want to waste even a few hours getting there. That’s why the Grant County…
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Category: 2022
More To Love
THINKING ABOUT CARLSBAD? Think beyond the cave! “There’s so much more to do in Carlsbad than people realize,” says Robbie Franco, who owns Zia Bike and Board in this southeastern New Mexico town. He…
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Blast Off to Alamogordo
THE NEW MEXICO MUSEUM of Space History, in Alamogordo, is preparing for liftoff. “We’re about 90 percent done with the new Human Spaceflight Gallery,” says director Chris Orwoll, of the exhibit, which…
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Find a Wealth of Adventures in Silver City
SILVER CITY FACED CATASTROPHE in the 1890s, when great floods wiped away Main Street and many of its buildings. But the townspeople quickly rallied, building a new thoroughfare parallel to the old…
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A Trip to Bountiful Las Cruces
AS A FOURTH-GENERATION LAS CRUCEN, Chris Schaefer carries on his family’s love for Mesilla Valley abundance. The owner of Dry Point Distillers is inspired by regional agriculture when crafting…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Celebrate Halloween and Día de los Muertos Halloweekend, Los Alamos If you’re that person—or family—who’s really into Halloween, Los Alamos is the place to be this weekend, as the city’s annual…
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Plaza Café Celebrates 75 Years
AS A KID, ONE OF LEONARDO RAZATOS’S jobs was to stand on a milk crate and make toast all day for customers of his family’s restaurant, the Plaza Café—a Santa Fe Plaza landmark celebrating 75 years…
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Editor's Letter: It's a Miracle!
AT NEW MEXICO MAGAZINE, we’re blessed with a talented staff devoted to bringing you the stories of our state’s people, places, and passions. By most any measure, our jobs are a treasure. We get to…
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Datebook: November 2022
A HOLIDAY MARKET FOR NEW MEXICO FOODIES, co-sponsored by the state’s Department of Agriculture? It’s almost too good to be true, but it is true—#nmtrue, that is. On November 19 and 20, the New Mexico…
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San Miguel Chapel's Historic Treasures
LAURIANNE FIORENTINO PULLS OUT HER PHONE and calls up a photo. We’re standing in the 1710 rebuild of San Miguel Chapel, first constructed by Santa Fe’s earliest settlers around a century before then…
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