President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression to provide jobs for people in need. Architects…
The Villanueva General Store, which is across from the Our Lady of Guadalupe church, makes THE best Frito pie. We spent about an hour there a few weeks ago…
Negra was a settlement on NM-60 that hoped to be a town, once the AT&SF railroad completed the Belen Cut-off. The cut-off enabled trains to pass through the…
San Ignacio is a ranching community and technically a ghost town, 18 miles west of Santa Rosa. Perhaps 50 people live here today. The town name commemorates St.…
This is what is left of San Pedro. About 180 people live in the area, but San Pedro, which is off NM-344 and about 30 miles out of Albuquerque, is considered a…
Holman is a ranching and farming community five miles northwest of Mora. The area where the settlement was founded was originally called San Antonio lo de Mora…
Velarde is located on NM-68, in the Rio Grande Rift, right at the point where the road enters the Rio Grande Gorge. The first postmaster, David Velarde, named…
The Rio Pueblo del Taos, also known as Rio del Pueblo, is a tributary of the Rio Grande near NM-518. The area, which goes through part of the Carson National…
Tres Ritos, located in the heart of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains through NM-518, is THE place to fish and camp. Fishing (mostly trout) is good in several…
y. Located near the Salmon Raspberry Ranch in Mora valley, San Rafael Chapel, a beautiful gothic style adobe church, was built from 1862 – 1870 by Vicente…
This is the Parker truss bridge that spans the Animas River over a portion of NM-550, less than 1/2 mile from the Colorado border. It is no longer used but can…
The Sangre de Christo Chapel in the village of Cuartelez (sometimes spelled Quarteles or Cuarteles) - just outside of Española - was built between 1850 and 1855…
The Aztec Ruins National Monument preserves Ancestral Puebloan structures and is close to both the town of Aztec and the Animas River. It is about 12 miles…
Located in the northwest corner of New Mexico near Farmington, the San Juan River is world renowned for providing some of the most rewarding trout fishing you…
Milnesand is located about 35 miles south of Portales on NM-206. Present population is 63. Milnesand may be a small dot on the map, but it is big in the heart…
Old NM-160, over the Rio Puerco river, serves as a primary link to Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge and Bureau of Land Management lands, and a secondary…
If you are driving around the road that circles Navajo Lake, you will see this church. Our Lady of Guadalupe. It has quite a history, and we remember reading…
Petaca (Spanish for "hip flask") is a small community - just 25 people as of the last census - about 15 miles northeast of El Rito. On January 29, 1836, Jose…
The village of Cañon Plaza, 5 miles NW of Vallecitos in NM-111, is within the boundaries of the pine-filled Carson National Forest. On the day we visited, the…