The people of Flagstaff, Arizona, have a unique way to ring in the New Year. No Waterford Crystal glittering ball for these folks! Instead, courtesy of the Weatherford Hotel, citizens and guests get to watch a 70-pound silver pine cone (8 feet long by 4 feet wide) make an elegant descent to mark the midnight [...]

Corn was a staple food for the ancient Native American people who first settled in what is now New Mexico. In fact, corn was a sacred plant for the Aztecs because they believed that the gods fashioned humans out of cornmeal dough. Corn was often made into favorite dishes to be consumed at special events [...]

The residents of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, have a unique way of celebrating the holidays. Hosted by the Tread of the Pioneers Museum, each year local residents participate in a scavenger hunt to find a 3-foot-long, 50-pound hunk of wood. It’s called the Yule Log Hunt and is very popular with local residents. A Yule Log [...]

Contrary to popular opinion, the Southwest (Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona) gets plenty of snow. In fact, some of the record snowfalls for the entire United States happened here! For instance, the record for the most snow to fall in a 24-hour period belongs to Silver Lake, Colorado and was set in 1921. They [...]