Hillsboro’s Historic Cafe Looks Ahead
THE HILLSBORO GENERAL Store Cafe has been many things in its 147 years: a dry goods store; a bank; a drugstore; a relief center during the Great Depression, when handwritten ledgers of what the town…
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Tag: Small Towns
These Historic Theaters are the Reel Deal
CAVERN THEATRE Carlsbad OPENED: 1951 SEATS: 665 After an $8.4 million remodel, the Art Deco–style theater blends modern amenities, like hearing-assistance headsets, with historic touches, like the…
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Historic Theaters Light Up Main Streets
OUT ON BULLARD STREET, the Silco Theater’s Art Deco marquee casts a pale neon wash across Silver City’s mostly darkened downtown. Just inside, checkerboard floors catch the low light as I slip into…
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Small Town Bars to Visit in New Mexico
RAYMOND’S LOUNGE Truth or Consequences In the heart of Truth or Consequences, Raymond’s Lounge has anchored local nights for more than 50 years. Opened in the early 1960s and known as Raymond’s since…
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Barn Raising
TWO BIG RED BARNS dot the roadside along NM 47 in Peralta. But only one of them, home to Branded Coffee & More, will sell you top-notch coffee, tasty lunches, and whole rib eyes or filet mignon…
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Spend a Weekend in Gallup
FROM THE SKY at last year’s Red Rock Balloon Rally, the contours of Gallup make a stunning kind of sense. When it’s rising over the city’s eastern side just past dawn, a hot-air balloon turns out to…
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Step Back in Time in Cimarrón
SOUTH COLLISON AVENUE cuts through the center of Cimarrón like a thread through time. A product of the Santa Fe Trail, the mid-1800s trade route from Franklin, Missouri, to Santa Fe, the town of…
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Slow Down in Cloudcroft
AS I WALK INTO High Rollin’ Coffee, in Cloudcroft, a sticker on the register greets me like a gentle nudge to the hippocampus: “On Mountain Time.” I peruse the menu board of grain bowls, toasts…
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Taste the Heat in Hatch
DRIVING INTO HATCH smells like I remembered. Smoky and sweet, hot and earthy, roasting green chile in the air. Dropping down into the valley from the north in late July, I find the fields are tidy and…
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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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