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New Mexico Ghost Towns

Dawson, New Mexico

Ghost towns litter the back roads in New Mexico. Miners settled most of these abandoned communities, extracting a variety of precious minerals and ores...

New Mexico Ghost Towns

Elizabethtown

New Mexico has an enormous amount of intriguing fodder for “based on a true story” westerns should that genre ever come back into style....

New Mexico Communities

Madrid

Not A Ghost Town Anymore Located midway on the Turquoise Trail, the village of Madrid is often referred to as a ghost town, though the...

New Mexico Communities

Cerrillos

The community of Cerrillos exudes the rugged charm and rustic simplicity of the Old West. Cottonwoods line the dirt streets, with adobe homes surrounded...

New Mexico Ghost Towns

White Oaks

The Discovery of Gold The boom and bust of mining in the late 1800s gave rise to numerous tent cities and mining towns across New...

New Mexico Communities

Pie Town

Pie Town is a small community of about 200 people perched a couple of miles from the Continental Divide on US highway 60 in...

New Mexico Ghost Towns

Coyote & Hagan

Hagan Coal was discovered in Una de Gato Arroyo in 1902. By 1905 60 miners set up a mining camp in what would become Hagan....

New Mexico Ghost Towns

Chloride, New Mexico

Of the many ghost towns in Sierra County, Chloride, New Mexico is my favorite. There are more historic buildings left standing than there are...

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San Francisco de Asís Church

Spanish settlers established small communities in the Taos valley, south of Taos Pueblo, after the Spanish reconquest of the region in 1692. Ranchos de...

Carlsbad Cavern

The Pueblo Revolt of 1680

The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 was one of the most significant events in New Mexico’s history. The revolt wasn’t successful in terms of permanently...

Mogollon, New Mexico

Lodging

Hotel Luna Mystica | Taos

Hotel Luna Mystica is a vintage trailer hotel and starlight campground in the vast Mesa of Taos, one of the most mystical locations on...

New Mexico Cabin Rentals | Gila

Adventures & Experiences

Spend The Day At Ghost Ranch

Georgia O'Keeffe made the glorious vistas of Ghost Ranch famous. The property encompasses 21,000 acres of colorful canyons, magnificent mesas, and spectacular stone spires....