New Mexico

You know those places that look fake until someone you trust posts a photo? This is one of…

By Miles Croft · May 25

I was not looking for anything wild that day. Just driving through the desert, watching red cliffs blur…

By Miles Croft · May 25

At first, it might look like a quick roadside stop. Then you step inside, see the spurs and…

By Cassie Holloway · May 25

A little roadside stop in New Mexico has been making chili dog fans pay attention for decades. Not…

By Cassie Holloway · May 25

New Mexico doesn’t ease you in. It grabs your attention with red rock walls and sunlit adobe, then…

By Miles Croft · May 24

A volcano you can actually stand on sounds like something from a road-trip story. But in northeastern New…

By Miles Croft · May 24

Food in New Mexico does not sit quietly in the background. It walks right up and makes you…

By Cassie Holloway · May 24

You might drive near this place and never guess what is sitting on the western edge of a…

By Cassie Holloway · May 24

Forget every hot spring guide you have already bookmarked. New Mexico keeps its best ones deliberately difficult, with…

By Gideon Hartwell · May 23

You can tell a taco place means business when nobody is trying too hard. No performance. No big…

By Miles Croft · May 23

The best part about this place is how little it seems to care about impressing anyone. It opens…

By Miles Croft · May 23

This is the kind of place that makes people stop talking mid-sentence. I walked in thinking I would…

By Cassie Holloway · May 23

At first, it looks quiet. Then the story starts catching up with you. There is a small town…

By Cassie Holloway · May 23

New Mexico has plenty of good breakfasts, so I do not say this lightly: this cafe made me…

By Miles Croft · May 22

You know those roadside stops that make everyone in the car wake up? This is one of them.…

By Miles Croft · May 22

This is the kind of trail people mention once, then you find yourself thinking about it for days.…

By Cassie Holloway · May 22

There are meals you enjoy, then there are meals you start telling people about before the day is…

By Cassie Holloway · May 22

Thirty dollars. That is the number savvy shoppers keep coming back to when they talk about New Mexico…

By Eliza Thornton · May 21

That first wave of smoke is the clue. You have not ordered yet, maybe you have not even…

By Miles Croft · May 21

This is the kind of place that sneaks up on you. Not because it is flashy. Because it…

By Miles Croft · May 21

New Mexico can turn a simple drive into a detour you keep talking about. You spot a quiet…

By Cassie Holloway · May 21

In a quiet corner of New Mexico, a gravel road heads toward the mountains, and the hike seems…

By Cassie Holloway · May 21

Somewhere in the southern stretch of New Mexico, a small village punches way above its weight when it…

By Miles Croft · May 20

Nearly 9,600 feet up, a stone tower rises through the pines of southern New Mexico. It has the…

By Miles Croft · May 20

The best meals are not always waiting under the biggest sign. That is what driving through New Mexico…

By Cassie Holloway · May 20

You think you know the desert Southwest and then New Mexico hands you a museum made of 50,000…

By Clara Whitmore · May 20

A mountain hike is already pretty great. Add a woolly long-necked llama carrying your gear, and suddenly the…

By Cassie Holloway · May 20

Nobody warned me that this desert stop would feel this cinematic. I was out in New Mexico, surrounded…

By Miles Croft · May 19

I didn’t expect to find water this blue in the middle of a hot desert afternoon, but New…

By Miles Croft · May 19

I thought I was just visiting a folk art museum. Instead, one quiet afternoon in New Mexico turned…

By Cassie Holloway · May 19

Some restaurants are more than a meal. You feel it before the first plate reaches the table. That…

By Cassie Holloway · May 19

A bakery like this does not wait for you to be hungry. It pulls you in with the…

By Miles Croft · May 18

Pull over. That is the only instruction you really need. Somewhere along a New Mexico highway, dried ristras…

By Daniel Mercer · May 18

You know a place has pull when the road up there feels like part of the meal. Pines…

By Miles Croft · May 18

This is the kind of easy trail that makes people say, wait, that was only 1.25 miles? In…

By Cassie Holloway · May 18

This is not the kind of hike you hurry through. This 2.2-mile route in New Mexico moves through…

By Cassie Holloway · May 18

Okay, you are not going to believe this burger! Right there on a quiet two-lane highway in New…

By Clara Whitmore · May 17

New Mexico knows how to surprise campers in the best way. You expect desert heat, dusty boots, and…

By Miles Croft · May 17

Some drives are pretty. This one has personality. Northern New Mexico does not just sit there looking nice.…

By Miles Croft · May 17