Datebook: September 2026
“IF WE COULD BOTTLE the smell of roasting chile, it would be our number one export,” says John Hard, owner of Zia Chile Traders and co-chair of the Hatch Chile Festival. Since 1971, the two-day…
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Tag: Four Corners
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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Totah Theater Shines Again
AT DOWNTOWN FARMINGTON’S historic Totah Theater, an unexpected feature greets moviegoers: small wooden tables tucked between the last four rows of seats. Opened in 1949 by the Allen Theatres chain…
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Join the Navajo Tea Party
A HOT-PINK COLD-DRINK oasis flowers among the wafting scents of roasted corn and frybread at the northwest corner of the Gallup Flea Market. Among the 500-plus vendors of jewelry, crafts, antiques…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Listen to music in the mountains. Folk songs, Americana ballads, country melodies, and bluegrass tunes fill the forest in Kingston during Pickamania, the annual three-day music festival at the…
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These Spots Are Paradise For Bird-Watchers
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: BEGINNER Rattlesnake Springs. You want a desert oasis? This is a desert oasis. Managed by Carlsbad Caverns National Park, these spring-fed ponds and streams were once an extensive…
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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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Cultural Vocabulary Lesson
Navajo people use the name Diné to describe themselves. The Bureau of Land Management area with Navajo defensive sites is called the Dinétah by archaeologists. In the Diné language, Dinétah refers…
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Five Things To Do This Weekend
1 Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A Civil Rights Journey: Passport to Discovery Kick off this long weekend’s commemoration of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Friday, with A…
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Called to the Bluffs
GROWING UP IN THE SOUTH, surrounded by hardwood trees that obscured one’s vision, expansive vistas were hard to find. The old highways bore “See Rock City” signs, and the occasional billboard showed…
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