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The 2026 Perseids are set up to be one of the best viewing years in a long stretch — the peak lands almost exactly on a new moon, meaning essentially zero moonlight competing with the meteors. Combine that rare timing with the East Mountains’ elevation and distance from Albuquerque’s light

New Mexico’s monsoon season doesn’t sneak up on anyone who’s been through a few of them — the pattern is reliable enough that you can basically set a calendar reminder. What a lot of RVers don’t do, though, is actually use that predictability to get ahead of it. A thorough

There aren’t many day trips from Albuquerque that let you cool off in open water and walk through a genuinely otherworldly rock formation in the same afternoon, but Cochiti Lake and Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, sitting practically next to each other about 45 minutes north of the city, give

Sandia Crest gets all the stargazing attention, and it earns a lot of it — but on a clear summer weekend, the Crest parking lot and scenic byway pull-outs fill with the same crowd that shows up for sunset photos and telescope traffic jams. The East Mountains have quieter, genuinely

New Mexico’s summer monsoon season brings some of the most reliably dramatic afternoon thunderstorms in the country — and along with the dramatic skies and the relief from weeks of dry heat, the monsoon brings genuine lightning risk that RV campers specifically need to understand. This isn’t an abstract concern.

Ask an Albuquerque local where they go on a July weekend when the valley floor is baking, and a huge number of them will point east — 20 minutes up I-40, into the Tijeras Canyon corridor and the small mountain communities that make up the East Mountains. It’s not a