Around 5,000 years ago, a volcano known today as Little Black Peak, erupted filling the Tularosa Basin with molten rock. The resulting lava flow was 44 miles long and 6 miles wide and, in many places, 160 feet thick. Only a ridge of Dakota sandstone overlooks the lava, extending to low hills over 10 miles [...]

Sometimes called “The Land of Fire and Ice,” Bandera Volcano and Ice Cave is a unique location in New Mexico. 10,000 years ago, Bandera Volcano erupted in a violent explosion. It poured out about 20 miles of lava flow through a lava tube system over 17 miles long. One of the finest examples of a [...]

Known as “the Santa Fe,” the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway came to Santa Fe in 1880 and has remained in nearly continuous operation since then. Today, a part of the line remains as a wonderful piece of history. The Santa Fe Southern Railway is still carrying passengers through high-desert scenery as well as [...]

Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Museum of Natural History and Science offers a wonderful journey of exploration and learning. Meet New Mexico’s giant dinosaurs, walk through a volcano or explore the solar system. The core of the museum’s exhibits is called Time Tracks. Time Tracks offers a journey through billions of years of New [...]

Spectacular palisade cliffs and mountain streams dominate Cimarron Canyon State Park located in New Mexico’s high country. Cimarron is Spanish for wild and untamed. The word originally referred to the bighorn sheep that roam the north-central mountains and has been adopted name the park. Cimarron Canyon State Park is part of the 33,116-acre Colin Neblett [...]

Table of Contents for the Haunted Southwest Series: Haunted Hotel: The Stanley Hotel, Colorado The Vulture Mine, Wickenburg, Arizona Haunted Hotel: The San Carlos, Phoenix, Arizona The Haunted Shores of the Great Salt Lake, Utah Haunted Tombstone, Arizona Haunted Mines: Ghost, Goblins and Tommy Knockers, Southwest Ghost Camels of the Southwest Haunted Dawson Cemetary, New [...]

Have you ever wanted to visit Texas, but never gotten around to it? Well now you can take a virtual tour with the Texas on Tour exhibit. This 5,400-square-foot, high-tech, interactive exhibit features virtual reality, green screen technology and interactive games will be at the Albuquerque International Balloon Festival, October 1 – 9, 2011. Texas [...]

Table of Contents for the Haunted Southwest Series: Haunted Hotel: The Stanley Hotel, Colorado The Vulture Mine, Wickenburg, Arizona Haunted Hotel: The San Carlos, Phoenix, Arizona The Haunted Shores of the Great Salt Lake, Utah Haunted Tombstone, Arizona Haunted Mines: Ghost, Goblins and Tommy Knockers, Southwest Ghost Camels of the Southwest Haunted Dawson Cemetary, New [...]

Bottomless Lakes State Park is located 14 miles southeast of Roswell, New Mexico, on the east edge of the Pecos River valley. The biggest question to Bottomless Lakes State Park is are the lakes really bottomless? In point of fact, the lakes are formed from sinkholes … caverns that have collapsed and filled with water. [...]

Did you know that New Mexico’s state fossil is the Coelophysis? Pronounced “See-low-FY-sis,” Coelophysis was a small and primitive meat-eating dinosaur that lived in New Mexico 210 million years ago. It was one of the first dinosaurs to evolve. It lived on the ground, walking (or running) on its two, powerful hind legs and was [...]