Aug. 20, 2018
WPA School …
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression to provide jobs for people in need. Architects…
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Aug. 12, 2018
United Methodist Church Estancia, NM
Passing through Estancia, population 1500 and part of the Albuquerque metro area, we came upon this incredible church. The stained glass was made the…
Aug. 10, 2018
Villanueva General Store Villanueva, NM
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…
Aug. 07, 2018
Negra, NM
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…
Aug. 03, 2018
San Ignacio, NM
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.…
July 25, 2018
San Pedro, NM
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…
July 22, 2018
Holman, NM
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…
July 21, 2018
Hauser Methodist Chapel Velarde, NM
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…
July 20, 2018
Rio Pueblo del Taos Sangre de…
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…
July 19, 2018
Tres Ritos …
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…
July 18, 2018
The Chapel of San Rafael La Cueva, NM
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…
July 17, 2018
Animas River Truss Bridge NM-550 near the…
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…
July 15, 2018
Sangre de Christo Chapel Cuartelez, NM
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…
July 14, 2018
Aztec Ruins National Monument
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…
July 13, 2018
The San Juan River
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…
July 10, 2018
Milnesand, NM
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…
July 09, 2018
Old NM-160 Bridge
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…
July 08, 2018
Our Lady of Guadalupe Church Navajo Lake, NM
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…
July 07, 2018
Petaca, NM
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…
July 06, 2018
Cañon Plaza, NM
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…
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