Plan your weekend in New Mexico, October 9–11, with fall festivals, Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebrations, plus the XTERRA World Championship in Ruidoso.

A SLOW PLUME OF DUST HANGS behind my truck, then dissolves with the wind. For miles, the shortgrass prairie of eastern New Mexico offers little beyond itself. Side oats, blue grama, buffalo grass, and ...

WHEN THE FIRST ATOMIC bomb was tested at White Sands Missile Range in 1945, surrounding sands were sucked into the flames. That atomic sludge dried out to trinitite, an eerie-looking grayish-green ...

Over the years, Fort Stanton has been a military fort, a tuberculosis hospital, a prison, and a rehab center. While guests can normally only visit seven of the 85 buildings, on the last Friday of the ...

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Keep your hiking boots handy. Winter in New Mexico brings desert walks, snowy trails, and reasons to spend another night under the stars. Find hiking and camping ideas, meet people who know these ...

FAST BECOMING ONE OF the most anticipated film festivals in the Southwest, the Santa Fe International Film Festival turns the City Different into a cinephile’s paradise with hundreds of films ...

Start early at Balloon Fiesta, watch a steamroller make art in Silver City, and find more festivals and events on the October calendar.

Since the 1970s, Red River has celebrated fall in the mountains by uplifting the arts community during the annual Aspencade Arts Festival at Brandenburg Park. “It brings a lot of people together,” ...

IF YOU VENTURE farther down a blue highway, around a secluded canyon pass, or onto a quiet rural road, you will discover that creativity is deeply woven into the fabric of every corner of New Mexico.

SANTA FE IS ONLY one of many geographic entry points to get to know and collect New Mexico art. Across the state, these galleries and venues are creating buzz while changing perceptions of a diverse ...