Sip and snack in Alamogordo, celebrate historic pottery's homecoming in Pojoaque, prowl the desert after dark, and browse ...

IMAGINE THE FINGER BONES of a human hand stretched out to something like body length, with webbing spanning between the fingers. That is, essentially, the bone structure of a bat’s wings. “Their wings ...

I CAN SEE TEXAS FROM where I am standing, in a tilled field near the eastern New Mexico state line. The crop was harvested a few weeks ago, and birds happily flit through the rows, picking at what’s ...

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 ...

“THIS WHOLE MOUNTAIN VALLEY wasn’t some wilderness nobody visited,” says Dana Dick, Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument’s lead interpretive park ranger. “It was home to people. There’s evidence of ...

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 ...

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 at least the 1970s, the bar feels like ...

TURTLEBACK MOUNTAIN Golf & Resort isn’t just a golf course—it’s a destination where the game, landscape, and community combine to create memorable experiences in the art of living. Gated communities, ...

JUDGING BY THE MAN'S DROOPED HEAD and slumped shoulders, the bottle of tequila on the table dealt a knockout blow. Carved from wood, in the style of a Spanish colonial bulto, the figure hardly seems a ...

In 1948, an oval spacecraft allegedly crashed in Hart Canyon, near Aztec, with 16 bodies inside. A hoax or a government cover-up? You decide. The well-marked 9.2-mile Alien Run Trail loop—with options ...

DEBORAH JACKSON TAFFA WAS A TEENAGE REBEL. During high school in Farmington, she embraced her Indigenous identity, which set her apart in an era that emphasized a certain kind of kitschy conformity.

WHEN THE FIRST ATOMIC bomb was tested at White Sands Missile Range in 1945, surrounding sands were sucked into the flames. That atomic sludge dried out to trinitite, an eerie-looking grayish-green ...