A Ghost Town with Spirit
CRESTA TERRELL HAS A REQUEST. The proprietor of the Old Kelly Store does not want this story to begin with a description of the road to Mogollón, as so many tend to. Instead, let’s reflect on what a…
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Category: Ghost Towns
Visit These Three Haunted Hotels for Ghostly Lodgings
La Posada de Santa Fe offers a chance for ghostly encounters. Photograph by Andrew Kornylak. La Posada de Santa Fe After her death in 1896, Santa Fe society matron and hostess Julia Staab never…
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Sleeping with Spirits
Clayton’s Hotel Eklund is home to a few ghosts. THE HOTEL EKLUND HAS HAD 125 YEARS to accumulate ethereal energy by offering comfortable accommodations, good food, and liberal libations to travelers…
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Melinda Bonewell Finds a Home in Madrid
Melinda Bonewell owns the Mine Shaft Tavern, in Madrid. Photograph by Andrew Kornylak. MELINDA BONEWELL TRADED SEATTLE’S RAIN FOR the sunny skies of New Mexico 18 years ago when she moved to the…
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Try These Three Haunted Restaurants for Spooky Eats
Mesilla's Double Eagle restaurant might be haunted by young lovers. Photograph courtesy of Double Eagle. Longtime US 60 favorite the Gatherin’ Place reopened in January as Pie Town Pies, part of the…
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Dining with the Dead
THE CIRCULAR OUTCROPPING OF LOW STRUCTURES rises against a rolling backdrop of desert wilderness. Here, the fabled Adobe Deli, a rambling steakhouse and saloon, sits at the end of a windswept road 10…
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Journalist Betty Williamson Finds the Beauty in Pep
Betty Williamson grew up just outside the town of Pep, in southeastern New Mexico. Photograph by Andrew Kornylak. BETTY WILLIAMSON’S GRANDPARENTS HOMESTEADED a piece of land 10 miles outside the town…
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Homes on the Range
The Sacred Heart Church in Bueyeros still holds Mass the first Saturday of each month. AFTER SERVICES IN SACRED HEART CHURCH, Mary Libby Campbell remembers, folks gathered in the old WPA schoolhouse…
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The Grass Was Greener
WHERE CR 279 BREAKS SOUTH from US 550, between San Ysidro and Cuba, centuries of history emerge. The craggy knob of Cabezón Peak, the remnant of a 1.5-million-year-old volcanic eruption, looms to the…
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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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