Find Adventure in Aztec
JOHNATHAN DOBBS HAS SPENT more than a decade driving the latticework of gravel roads around Aztec, many of them unmarked, just to see where they go and what surprises they hold. He’s hunted elk and…
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Tag: Aztec Ruins
Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Celebrate Cinco de Mayo. Tamale Festival, Las Cruces Taste tons of masa wrapped deliciousness during the Tamale Festival on Sunday from 4 to 10 p.m. at the Plaza de Las Cruces. Attendees can try…
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A Brief Timeline of Native History
850: First great houses built at Pueblo Bonito and Una Vida in Chaco Canyon. 1050: Chaco culture reaches its height. 1068–1072: First Chacoan structures built at what is now called Salmon Ruins. 1105:…
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Ancient Enigmas
IN THE 17TH CENTURY, the Four Corners region turned cruel. Chaco’s Ancestral Puebloan people had fled three centuries earlier, their elaborate social structure abandoned as the culture’s various…
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Explore Archaeology
THE CHACOAN PAST enthralls visitors to Chaco Culture National Historical Park, southwest of Nageezi; Aztec Ruins National Monument, in Aztec; and Salmon Ruins Museum, in Bloomfield, which also tells…
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Datebook: June 2022
ANCESTRAL PUEBLO PEOPLE KNEW what was up—the sky—and they built their world around it. At Aztec Ruins National Monument, the structures left behind by the Animas River Valley’s largest Indigenous…
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Five Places to Take Holiday Guests
Above: Get weird at Meow Wolf, in Santa Fe. Photograph courtesy of Meow Wolf. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HELD A CURMUDGEONLY VIEW of houseguests, quipping that they, “like fish, begin to smell after three…
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Five Things to Do this Weekend
Above: Judy Chicago's Turn Over a New Leaf is among the works in Solstice: Create Art for Earth opening at Santa Fe's Turner Carroll Gallery. Image courtesy of Turner Carroll Gallery. Attend the…
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Change of Pace
Above: Aztec's Alien Run Trail offers other-wordly vistas and mild weather, even in the deepest part of winter. Photographs by Jeremy Wade Shockley. AT NINE ON A SATURDAY night, Farmington is quiet…
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We Hereby Declare
Above: Scenes from the citizenship ceremony at Aztec Ruins National Monument. Photographs by Jeremy Wade Shockley. We have come many miles to this place where so many have come before. The event that…
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