Roadtrips
Prehistoric Trackways National Monument
Established in 2009, Prehistoric Trackways National Monument protects the world's most extensive collection of trace fossils from the Permian era.
Travelers Guide to Gallup
Home to over 20,000 people, Gallup is the largest community between Flagstaff and Albuquerque. Due to the remote location, the city is the primary transportation and financial hub for...
History of Gallup | Railroad to Route 66
The history of Gallup can be traced back thousands of years to the earliest inhabitants of the region. As the influence of the Ancestral Puebloans in Chaco Canyon expanded...
Chaco Canyon National Historical Park
Americans are often preoccupied with ancient cultures on faraway shores, but New Mexicans have the ruins of an ancient, advanced civilization, on par with the ancient Mayans or Aztecs,...
Shiprock
Shiprock is an iconic stone sentinel, rising 1583 feet above the stark plains of northwestern New Mexico. The National Park Service designated Shiprock as a National Natural Landmark in...
Karl Jansky NRAO Very Large Array (VLA)
Eavesdropping on The Sounds of Silence
The Plains of San Agustin are expansive, stretching 55-miles northeast to southwest, ranging from 5 to 15 miles across. Highway 60 crosses the plains,...
Plains of San Agustin
Part of the allure of the American West is the wide-open spaces. There is a thrilling sensation when staring down a long stretch of road, without a human in...
Dawson
Ghost towns litter the back roads in New Mexico. Miners settled most of these abandoned communities, extracting a variety of precious minerals and ores from the mountains and canyons...
Lybrook Fossil Area
Roaming the Lybrook Badlands
I had an opportunity to explore the Lybrook Fossil Area recently with Navajo Tours. They were on a scouting expedition to put together adventures for astro-photographers,...
Highway 53 | Grants to Zuni Pueblo
There are many people who are proponents of taking the direct route between point A and B. I’m not one of them. Friends and family can attest to my...
