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El Rancho de las Golondrinas
· 8.0 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Experience life on the historic Camino Real at El Rancho de las Golondrinas, a vital stop on the Royal Road. For centuries, this area was a paraje, an official rest stop for travelers along the Camino Real, which…
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Wild Hogs Movie Set
· 10.4 mi · Things to Do
The 2007 film built a diner set donated to the town. The movie grossed 253 million.
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Glorieta Pass Battlefield
· 14.7 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Right here, in 1862, a pivotal Civil War battle decided the fate of the Southwest. Confederate forces aimed to seize the Santa Fe Trail and cut off vital Union supply lines. They clashed with Union troops in a series of…
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Town For Sale (250K)
· 15.0 mi · Things to Do
When the mines closed the entire company town was listed for 250000 dollars. Nobody bought it.
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Nambé Pueblo, New Mexico
· 15.7 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Pull over for a moment and imagine: this land beneath your tires has been home to the Nambé people for over 600 years. This Pueblo was a major hub when the Spanish arrived in the early 1600s, a center of culture, trade,…
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Tsankawi Pueblo Ruins
· 15.9 mi · Things to Do
Unexcavated 350-room village with trails worn into bedrock by centuries of foot traffic.
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Otowi Suspension Bridge
· 16.3 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Brave the wooden planks of this single-lane suspension bridge, a relic of 1920s engineering. The Otowi Suspension Bridge was built in 1924, stretching across the Rio Grande near San Ildefonso. It was a vital link,…
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Bandelier National Monument
· 16.5 mi · Historical Marker
Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings and cave homes carved into the volcanic tuff of Frijoles Canyon in the Jemez Mountains.
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San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico
· 17.1 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Pull over here for a glimpse into a vibrant past and present at San Ildefonso Pueblo, a place where tradition thrives. For over 700 years, the Tewa people have called this area home. The Pueblo is one of the eight…
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Oscar Huber Memorial Ballpark
· 18.9 mi · Things to Do
A coal miner who became the mine owner built this diamond for his workers in the canyon.
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Bandelier National Monument
· 19.0 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Imagine carving your home directly into the side of a cliff – that's exactly what the Ancestral Pueblo people did here at Bandelier National Monument. Between about 1150 and 1600, this area thrived as a center of Pueblo…
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Madrid Coal Mines
· 19.2 mi · Things to Do
Company town that produced 200000 tons of coal a year at peak. The company owned everything.
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Madrid Ghost Town
· 19.2 mi · Historical Marker
A former coal mining town on the Turquoise Trail between Albuquerque and Santa Fe that was abandoned in the 1950s and revived by artists and craftspeople in the 1970s.
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Madrid Christmas Light Display
· 19.3 mi · Things to Do
150000 lights so bright airline pilots used them to navigate. Ran from the 1920s to 1941.
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Turquoise Trail (Highway 14)
· 19.3 mi · Things to Do
A 1000-year trade route now a National Scenic Byway connecting Albuquerque to Santa Fe.
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Engine House Theatre
· 19.3 mi · Things to Do
Former locomotive repair shop converted into a melodrama theater in the old machine bay.
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Madrid Artist Colony Revival
· 19.4 mi · Things to Do
Artists bought 200-dollar shacks in the 1970s and turned a ghost town into a gallery district.
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Bandelier National Monument
· 19.5 mi · Things to Do
Ancient cliff dwellings and petroglyphs. Climb ladders into 800-year-old cave homes.
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Bandelier National Monument
· 19.6 mi · Things to Do
Over 3000 archaeological sites and ancient cliff dwellings carved into volcanic tuff.
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Madrid Ghost Town Era
· 19.6 mi · Things to Do
Population crashed from 4000 to fewer than 12 people between the 1950s and 1970s.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
· 19.8 mi · Historical Marker
Secret wartime laboratory on a mesa in the Jemez Mountains where scientists built the first atomic bombs during the Manhattan Project.