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NEW MEXICO

Cities: Cimarron, Taos

CIMARRON

Aztec MIll Museum

Address: W 17th St, Cimarron, NM 87714

Phone: 575-376-2417

Website: https://www.cimarronnm.com/museums--sites.html

Information: The Aztec Grist Mill is operated as a museum and houses working mill parts, life-size figures of local history.

New Mexico State Library

Address: 1209 Camino Carlos Rey, Santa Fe, NM 87507

Phone: 505-476-9700

Website: http://www.nmstatelibrary.org/

Information: Offers many public services including free wifi.

Cimarron Canyon State Park

Address: 28869 US-64, Eagle Nest, NM 87718

Phone: 575-377-6271

Website: http://www.emnrd.state.nm.us/SPD/cimarroncanyonstatepark.html

Information: Cimarron Canyon State Park is a state park of New Mexico with the Palisades Sill forming spectacular cliffs above the Cimarron River here.

Eagle Nest Lake State Park

Address: 42 Marina Ln, Eagle Nest, NM 87718

Phone: 575-377-1594

Website: http://www.emnrd.state.nm.us/SPD/eaglenestlakestatepark.html

Information: Located on the Enchanted Circle Scenic Byway, Eagle Nest Lake is surrounded by the stunning scenery of the high mountains of the Moreno Valley.

Santa Fe Trail Interpretive Center

Address: 127 Bridge Street Las Vegas, NM 87701

Phone: 505-425-8803

Website: https://www.santafetrailnm.org/site553.html

Information: Enjoy many photos and artifacts of the Santa Fe Trail, especially those from the Las Vegas, New Mexico area.

Capulin Volcano National Monument

Address: 44 Volcano Road, Capulin, NM 88414

Phone: 575-278-2201

Website: https://www.nps.gov/cavo/index.htm

Information: Capulin Volcano National Monument is a U.S. National Monument with an extinct cinder cone volcano.

Fort Union National Monument

Address: 3115 NM-161, Watrous, NM 87753

Phone: 505-425-8025

Website: https://www.nps.gov/foun/index.htm

Information: Exposed to the wind, within a sweeping valley of short grass prairie, amid the swales of the Santa Fe Trail, lie the territorial-style adobe remnants of the largest 19th century military fort in the region.

TAOS

Taos Center for the Arts

Address: 133 Paseo Del Pueblo Norte, Taos, NM 87571

Phone: 575-758-2052

Website: https://tcataos.org/

Information: The Taos Center for the Arts provides facilities and programming and education in the visual, performing and media arts.

Taos Historic Museums

Address: 222 Ledoux St, Taos, NM 87571

Phone: 575-758-0505

Website: https://taoshistoricmuseums.org/

Information: Historical artifacts & art in two venues: a preserved landmark home & a circa-1804 hacienda.

Millicent Rogers Museum

Address: 1504 Millicent Rogers Rd, El Prado, NM 87529

Phone: 575-758-2462

Website: https://millicentrogers.org/

Information: The Millicent Rogers Museum is a museum showcasing a stellar collection of Native American jewelry and textiles and superb examples of Hispanic religious and secular artists.

The Hardwood Museum of Art

Address: 238 Ledoux St, Taos, NM 87571

Phone: 575-758-9826

Website: http://harwoodmuseum.org/

Information: The Harwood Museum of Art has collections ranging from Hispanic works and visual arts to the Taos Society of Artists, Taos Moderns, and contemporary artists.

Carson National Forest

Location: Taos, NM

Phone: 575-758-6200

Website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/carson/

Information: The Carson National Forest is one of five National Forests in New Mexico.

Fechin House

Address: 227 Paseo Del Pueblo Norte, Taos, NM 87571

Phone: 575-758-2690

Website: https://www.taosartmuseum.org/

Information: Born in Russia, Fechin was one of the most important portrait painters of the 20th Century.

Wild Rivers Recreation Area

Address: 1120 Cerro Rd, Cerro, NM 87519

Phone: 575-586-1150

Website: https://www.blm.gov/visit/wild-rivers-recreation-area

Information: Here visitors may experience the beauty of an 800-foot deep canyon sliced into volcanic flows by the Río Grande (Spanish for Great River) and Red River where they come together.

San Francisco de Asis Mission Church

Address: 60 St Francis Plaza, Ranchos De Taos, NM 87557

Phone: 575-758-2754

Website: https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/american_latino_heritage/San_Francisco_de_Assisi_Mission_Church.html

Information: San Francisco de Asis Mission Church is a historic and architecturally significant church on the main plaza of Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico.

Taos Pueblo

Address: 120 Veterans Hwy, Taos, NM 87571

Phone: 575 -58 1028

Website: https://taospueblo.com/

Information: Landmark Red Willow tribal site with multi-story adobe houses, inhabited for more than 1,000 years.

Blumenschein Home & Museum

Address: 222 Ledoux St, Taos, NM 87571

Phone: 505-758-0505

Website: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g47224-d103406-Reviews-Blumenschein_Home_Museum-Taos_Taos_County_New_Mexico.html

Information: Website dedicated to the two painters who ended up in Taos in the late 1880s due to a broken wagon wheel and stayed to form the Taos Society of Artists.

Taos Art Museum

Address: 227 Paseo Del Pueblo Norte, Taos, NM 87571

Phone: 505-758-2690

Website: https://www.taosartmuseum.org/

Information: Taos's newest museum, opened in 1994, has a collection of works by early members of the Taos Society of Artists never seen before by the public.

Kit Carson Home & Museum

Address: 113 Kit Carson Rd, Taos, NM 87571

Phone: 575-758-4082

Website: http://www.kitcarsonmuseum.org/

Information: Purchased by famed cowboy Kit Carson for his bride in 1843, this 3-room adobe home displays artifacts, antique firearms and other pioneer belongings.