The Gila Wilderness At 100
LESS THAN FIVE MILES into the nation’s first designated wilderness area, I scan the muddy banks of New Mexico’s last free-flowing river for animal tracks, wondering who else is here. Low sunlight…
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Category: April
Experience New Mexico Giveaway
THE GIVEAWAY New Mexico Magazine readers will have the opportunity to enter our Instagram giveaway for four Experience New Mexico excursions. The promotion is provided in partnership with Heritage…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Get your mitts on some prints. More than 30 printmakers from throughout the country are participating in the inaugural Fistful of Prints art fair, a three-day exhibition and print sale at the Center…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: April 2023
Illustration by Chris Philpot. OFF THE BEATEN PATH JAN AND LEE RADER sent us a snapshot of the International Travel section at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Manassas, Virginia. What was shelved…
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What We're Reading: The Ballad of Plácida Romero
“I BEG GOD FOR MY MEMORY,” begins the Spanish ballad “Corrido de Plácida Romero.” On August 8, 1881, Romero was captured at her home near Grants, in one of the last Apache war raids into the…
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Sip and Shop at Mija
CANDLES GLOW IN THE NICHOS at Mija, a coffee, beauty, and elixirs boutique inside Santa Fe Village, a block and a half south of the Plaza. A directive, “Keep some room in your heart” arches over the…
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Get to Know Carlsbad Caverns Wildlife
Illustrations by Chris Philpot. CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK’S MOST FAMOUS RESIDENTS are its Brazilian free-tailed bats, but they’re just one of more than 67 mammals and 368 bird species that live…
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Building on Alamogordo History
DON’T BE FOOLED BY THE SUNSHINE, surrounding mountain ranges, occasional adobe building, or even the town’s name, which is Spanish for “fat cottonwood.” “Alamogordo is not a Southwestern town,”…
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Family Gathering
THE FIRST THING YOU FEEL is the ground tremble with the rhythmic thumping of the drums. It is the symbolic heartbeat of the earth, echoing the hearts beating in our own chests. The drums are at the…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Crank up the music. Rock out at Western New Mexico University, in Silver City, on Saturday, when the Mavericks perform at 8 p.m. The rock and alt-country band has been around since the 1980s; their…
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