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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Tag: Culture
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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Take Your Pick Between These Old Mining Towns
An old adobe homestead sits in Lake Valley, just southwest of Truth or Consequences. Photograph by Andrew Kornylak. A CENTURY'S WORTH OF PRAYERS bolster the restored adobe chapel at the Lake Valley…
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Chloride After the Boom
Visitors to Chloride can see former mining buildings. HAD DON EDMUND NOT TAKEN A WRONG TURN on Labor Day weekend in 1977, the town of Chloride might have fallen faster. Instead, Edmund fell for the…
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Essential Guide to Ghost Towns
GOOD HAUNTS Abandoned, barely there, or rebounding with new purpose, towns, hotels, and restaurants all across the state hold secret treasures: the stories of past lives. Chloride After the…
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Lovely as a Tree
Our Lady of Sorrows statue stands in the northeastern section of Plaza Park, in Las Vegas. Photograph by Kate Nelson. IN RETROSPECT, CITY FATHERS SHOULDN’T HAVE planted elms in Plaza Park, the…
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Karen Haughness Shares What Makes White Oaks Special
Karen Haughness owns the always popular No Scum Allowed Saloon, in White Oaks. Photograph by Andrew Kornylak. ALBUQUERQUE NATIVE KAREN HAUGHNESS MOVED AROUND before settling in the tiny town of White…
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Good Haunts
A storm brews over an abandoned home in Yeso. FOR LONG MINUTES, THE ONLY SOUND is the wind rising and falling as it blows across New Mexico’s eastern plains. From somewhere along a street of empty…
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Indigenous Glass Artists Shine
AT A TEMPERATURE OF 1,000 DEGREES—the heat of lava—the glass at the end of the blowpipe resembles a fiery sun at dusk as it leaves the furnace for the workbench, cooling enough on the way to reveal…
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On the Right Track
FROM THE OUTSIDE, the engine workshop of the historic Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, in Antonito, Colorado, doesn’t seem like much. Not to my eyes anyway. It takes stepping inside, where the…
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