Follow the Water Through Mills Canyon
A SLOW PLUME OF DUST HANGS behind my truck, then dissolves with the wind. For miles, the shortgrass prairie of eastern New Mexico offers little beyond itself. Side oats, blue grama, buffalo grass, and…
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Tag: Ghost Town
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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Remembering Dawson
The road to Dawson is five miles of hard-packed red dirt that runs along the Vermejo River into a network of foothills and canyons. If you’re lucky enough to travel there in summer, you’ll turn off US…
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Why We Love NM: Our Ghost Towns Contain Multitudes
J OHN M. MULHOUSE MISSES THE UNIQUELY eerie vibes of a New Mexico ghost town. Though he now lives in Oklahoma, the historian and author is nostalgic for the decade he spent traipsing around the…
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Top 10 Stories for 2021
Above: Cerro de Guadalupe, the remnant of an ancient volcanic eruption, looms to the east of the village of San Luis, in the Río Puerco Valley. Photograph by Andrew Kornylak. REMEMBER HOW HAPPY WE…
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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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