East Mountains High
IT'S ONLY 20 MILES FROM DOWNTOWN ALBUQUERQUE to the East Mountain communities of Tijeras and Cedar Crest, but as each mile falls away, as the altitude climbs, as the sidewalks and streetlights give…
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Category: Road Trip
Soak in the Vibe of Truth or Consequences
ONE MORNING IN TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, I leave my Twilight Zone room on what feels like a journey to another dimension. I’ve spent a quiet night at Blackstone Hotsprings Lodging & Baths, where the…
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Explore Historic Ratón
GERALDINE CHICARELLI DAVIS TEETERS ATOP a sharply cut bank, peering into the sluggish creek below. She remembers when it flowed with enough force for children to splash and swim for days. She…
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Small-Town Spirits in Mountainair
KAREN ARGEANAS WALKS THROUGH the old mission church at Abó, one of three parts of the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument (along with Quarai and Gran Quivira), outside the town of Mountainair…
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Journey into the Santa Fe Trail's Past—and Future
WHEN WILLIAM BECKNELL'S MULE train creaked, snorted, and jounced into Santa Fe on November 14, 1821, a metaphoric earthquake shook New Mexico’s dusty soil. For more than two centuries, the Spanish…
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Route 66 Shines Bright in Tucumcari
IN ITS HEYDAY IN THE 1950s AND '60s, Tucumcari glowed with so much neon that it was dubbed “Little Las Vegas.” Period photos hanging in the New Mexico Route 66 Museum testify to the illumination of…
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Roadside Stop: White Rock Overlook
YOU COULD TACK THIS ONTO A VISIT to Los Alamos, just for the view. White Rock Overlook delivers on that score. Take the wheelchair-accessible path to an overhanging structure and gaze down a…
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Winter Warmth
Above: Pancho Villa State Park. Photography Courtesy New Mexico Tourism Department. HEAVENLY SOUL FOOD AND HOMEMADE PIES, the site of a 20th-century foreign invasion, a winery specializing in Italian…
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Caverns & Cow Towns
Two things keep cropping up during a drive beneath the big blue skies that dominate the vast high plains of New Mexico’s far southeast corner: cattle and pumpjacks. In rugged Lea and Eddy counties…
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20 Things to Love about Truth or Consequences
IT'S SATURDAY EVENING IN TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, and the band is kicking it up. That’s Robbie McFarland on rhythm guitar. She used to be a trick roper in rodeos. And talk about rough rides: As a girl…
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