WE APPROACH WHITE SANDS NATIONAL PARK from Las Cruces on I-70, climbing up and over the jagged Organ Mountains. The desert is stark out here, beautiful but ominous. After passing military installation…
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RHIANNON GRIEGO SITS IN White Sands National Park, working the strings and pedals of her loom in time with her heartbeat. The gypsum dunes, bathed in the lambent rays of the setting sun, serve as her…
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1 Lift off for White Sands. See hot air balloons lift off from the dunes at White Sands National Park during the White Sands Balloon Glow Invitational on Saturday starting at 7 a.m. On Saturday…
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WHAT STARTED AS A BACKYARD HANGOUT in the 1980s has evolved into a three-day music festival among Kingston’s towering ponderosa pines. Featuring bluegrass, Americana, and folk, this year’s Pickamania…
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DON’T BE FOOLED BY THE SUNSHINE, surrounding mountain ranges, occasional adobe building, or even the town’s name, which is Spanish for “fat cottonwood.” “Alamogordo is not a Southwestern town,”…
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JUST 20 MINUTES FROM WHITE SANDS NATIONAL PARK, Alamogordo is a hot spot for family getaways and Southwestern road trips. Visitors to this Tularosa Basin town can take in its historic charm…
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STEAM TEAM The Inspiration: At Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return, parents can indulge their kids’ curiosities at Santa Fe’s 70-room immersive art experience. Step into the refrigerator, duck under…
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THE NEW MEXICO MUSEUM of Space History, in Alamogordo, is preparing for liftoff. “We’re about 90 percent done with the new Human Spaceflight Gallery,” says director Chris Orwoll, of the exhibit, which…
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THIS MONTH, there’s only one place in the world where a performance by renowned Taos Pueblo flutist Robert Mirabal is followed by the propulsively percussive Ukrainian quartet DakhaBrakha: onstage at…
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Exploring the dunes at White Sands National Park is just part of the fun. There's plenty to do in Alamogordo and Las Cruces as well. Photograph by Tira Howard. CONSIDER MAKING Alamogordo or Las…
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