New Mexico

You can still find places where the past has not been polished flat. High in the Sacramento Mountains…

By Miles Croft · May 30

A quick walk can turn into something else when the rocks refuse to stay quiet. That is what…

By Miles Croft · May 30

Somewhere along the flat roads of southeastern New Mexico, I pulled over for what I thought would be…

By Cassie Holloway · May 30

You know that moment when you’re driving along, not expecting much, and suddenly the road makes you do…

By Cassie Holloway · May 30

What is it about a tiny roadside cafe that makes a breakfast burrito taste so much better? New…

By Miles Croft · May 29

Forget everything you think a road trip looks like. New Mexico throws out the rulebook completely and replaces…

By Miles Croft · May 29

New Mexico does not do anything halfway. Especially when it comes to food. There is a small, cheerful…

By Cassie Holloway · May 29

The smell of fry bread hits first. Then the glitter of handcrafted jewelry catches the eye. Then the…

By Cassie Holloway · May 29

The stop barely registered on my map at first. Then the red sandstone walls rose from the desert…

By Miles Croft · May 28

Forget the Old West you saw in movies. This town was not clean, quiet, or made for postcards.…

By Miles Croft · May 28

New Mexico is a big state, and it turns out the appetites here match the landscape. Whether you…

By Eliza Thornton · May 28

I pulled over for the view, but the view had other plans. Across the road, a huge green…

By Cassie Holloway · May 28

The little brown sign on the New Mexico highway did not look like much. Honestly, I almost kept…

By Cassie Holloway · May 28

Missouri has a quiet confidence when it comes to barbecue. No need to shout about it. The proof…

By Eliza Thornton · May 27

You know those places you almost miss because the road looks pretty ordinary? This state park on the…

By Miles Croft · May 27

Kansas does not do anything halfway when it comes to feeding people. The buffets here are the kind…

By Gideon Hartwell · May 27

You know those places that make you stop mid-sentence? This village does that. One look at the cliffs…

By Miles Croft · May 27

There is a question every New Mexico local will ask before you even sit down. Red or green?…

By Lenora Winslow · May 27

Some places make you stop mid-step, because the light shifts and suddenly the whole street feels brand new…

By Cassie Holloway · May 27

The drive from the city is short, but the reset feels huge. Streets fade as the road climbs.…

By Cassie Holloway · May 27

This tiny mountain town in New Mexico caught me off guard in the best way. I expected pretty…

By Miles Croft · May 26

New Mexico may be famous for desert drives and big sky sunsets, but its waterfall hikes deserve a…

By Miles Croft · May 26

Take the old road between Santa Fe and Albuquerque and you may hit a village that feels like…

By Cassie Holloway · May 26

There’s a bowl of green chile stew in Albuquerque that regulars talk about like they’re passing along a…

By Cassie Holloway · May 26

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