Where to Travel According to Your Zodiac Sign
SEEKERS HAVE COME to the Land of Enchantment to find themselves for centuries. Perhaps as a result, New Mexicans have picked up a reputation for dabbling in what some might call woo-woo…
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Tag: Valles Caldera National Preserve
Nine Best Places to Go Stargazing
COSMIC CAMPGROUND Alma Forty miles from the nearest significant source of electric light, the 3.5-acre site was the first International Dark Sky Sanctuary in the U.S. and is still just one of 17 in…
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Outdoor Odyssey
WITH A 7,300-FOOT ELEVATION, abundant sunshine, and crowd-free trails, Los Alamos calls out to mountain bikers, hikers, and everyone else who revels in the great outdoors—including Olympic athletes…
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The Feather and the Cellphone
MY COMPANIONS AND I LABORED THROUGH DEEP SNOW for 15 long minutes—and this after driving through two-foot-deep drifts on the way up to the caldera on a frigid February evening. Now, as we trudged on…
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Quintessentially NM: Landscapes
An aerial view of the Valles Caldera National Preserve. Photograph by NMTD. Lands Alive IN THE BEGINNING, THE EARTH WAS without form. Really. Right here in New Mexico. As in no mountains, canyons…
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Fun Winter Activities for the Non-Skier
Los Alamos ice rink was built in 1936. Courtesy of NMTD. SNOW RENDERS THE FOREST IN STRIKING LIGHT and dark. Blue and lavender shadows stripe the white snow around gray pine trunks. Squirrel and…
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Five Instagram Accounts Keeping Us Connected
Above: One of the best parts of early mornings on the Rio Grande is the migratory birds. Photograph by Aaron Blanc. If we’re doing this right, we’re staying at home and keeping our distance. So we…
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The Elk Hunting Mecca
Above: An elk hunter in the Valles Caldera National Preserve. Photographs by Andrew Kornylak. WE ROSE HOURS BEFORE DAWN, loaded our packs into my Toyota Tacoma pickup, and headed toward Valles…
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Park Central
Upward bound at Bandelier. Photograph by Kennan Harvey. On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating the National Park Service, which celebrates its centennial with free…
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