Wander New Mexico Food Tours is a tour operator based in Santa Fe that offers immersive walking culinary tours focused on the unique food culture and rich history of New Mexico.
White Sands National Park in southern New Mexico encompasses 145,762 acres of the world's largest gypsum dune field spanning 275 square miles in the Tularosa Basin, where shimmering white sands form wave-like dunes due to unique isolation preventing gypsum dissolution.
Coyote Creek State Park lies in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, 17 miles north of Mora along State Highway 434 in Guadalupita Canyon at 7,700 feet elevation.
Morphy Lake State Park is a small, 30-acre park in northern New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo Mountains, about 7 miles southwest of Mora, featuring a scenic 15-acre lake at around 8,000 feet elevation near the Pecos Wilderness.
The New Mexico History Museum, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a captivating institution that chronicles the rich and diverse history of the state from its ancient beginnings to the present day.
Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness in San Juan County, northwestern New Mexico, spans 45,000 acres of remote badlands 35 miles southeast of Farmington, offering surreal eroded landscapes of hoodoos, spires, pinnacles, arches, and striking formations like the Alien Egg Hatchery, Manta Ray Wing, and Cracked Eggs amid colorful Fruitland coal shales, Kirtland sandstones, and Nacimiento layers from 74 million years ago across the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction boundary.
Cerrillos Hills State Park covers 1,116 acres of rolling pinyon-juniper hills along New Mexico's Turquoise Trail National Scenic Byway (NM Highway 14), located 16 miles south of Santa Fe near the historic village of Los Cerrillos.
The Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, built in 1880 as part of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad's narrow-gauge line, spans 64 miles between Antonito, Colorado, and Chama, New Mexico.
Tinkertown Museum in Sandia Park, New Mexico, is a whimsical folk art creation built by self-taught artist Ross Ward over 40 years, featuring a hand-carved miniature Old West town, animated circus scenes, and thousands of intricate wood-carved figures first displayed at fairs in the 1960s and 1970s.
Eagle Nest Lake State Park spans 2,400 acres at 8,200 feet elevation in the Moreno Valley of northern New Mexico, 30 miles east of Taos along the Enchanted Circle Scenic Byway near Eagle Nest town.
Cities of Gold Casino is a Pueblo-owned gaming venue operated by the Pojoaque Pueblo near Santa Fe, New Mexico, located at 10 Cities of Gold Road, about 15 miles north of downtown via Highway 84/285.
Aztec Ruins National Monument in northwestern New Mexico preserves the remains of a large ancestral Puebloan settlement built mainly between 1100 and 1300 AD, mistakenly named by early settlers who thought it related to the Aztec Empire.
Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center in San Antonio, New Mexico, serves as the main hub for the 57,331-acre refuge established in 1939 along the Rio Grande south of Socorro to protect migratory birds and wildlife in the Chihuahuan Desert's northern edge.
Riverbend Hot Springs in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, is a unique hot springs resort located on the banks of the Rio Grande river, offering several public and private soaking pools filled with natural, mineral-rich water pumped from an underground volcanic lake.
Wheeler Peak Wilderness in New Mexico's Carson National Forest spans 19,661 acres in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Taos Ski Valley, encompassing the state's highest point at Wheeler Peak rising 13,161 feet with rugged alpine terrain, steep canyons, dense woodlands, ancient bristlecone pines, wildflower meadows, and glacial-carved valleys hosting bighorn sheep and diverse wildlife.
Rio Grande Nature Center State Park is a 38-acre urban wildlife refuge along the Rio Grande in Albuquerque, New Mexico, established in 1982 to protect bosque habitat with cottonwoods, wetlands, ponds, and sand flats that support over 250 bird species like sandhill cranes, wood ducks, hawks, and hummingbirds along the Central Flyway.
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque is an interactive museum near Old Town that takes visitors on a journey through billions of years of Earth's history, from the universe's origins to New Mexico's Ice Age, with hands-on exhibits featuring dinosaurs like the massive Seismosaurus, active volcano simulations, Ice Age caves, and a Triassic hall unique in North America.
Wildlife West Nature Park in Edgewood, New Mexico, just 20 minutes east of Albuquerque, spans 122 acres as a nonprofit wildlife refuge and enhanced zoo operated by the New Mexico Wildlife Association, housing over 20 species of native animals like black bears, cougars, wolves, elk, bobcats, javelina, foxes, raptors, and mule deer that were rescued from injuries, orphans, or illegal pets and cannot return to the wild.
