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Truth or Consequences is the kind of place that people from New Mexico have been quietly aware of for years and that visitors discover and talk about for the rest of the trip. It’s a small town on the Rio Grande in Sierra County with a main street that looks

There are things you can do in the Albuquerque area in summer that feel completely ordinary — hiking trails, Old Town, the Balloon Museum — and then there are things that feel specific to exactly this place and this season. An evening at the Santa Fe Opera is the second

Most people think of New Mexico’s monsoon season as something to plan around — the afternoon storms that cut a hike short or make you roll up the awning. The people who’ve actually been in the East Mountains or the high desert during monsoon season see it differently. The storms

Albuquerque in July averages high temperatures around 93°F, which is genuinely hot — dry heat with intense sun at 5,312 feet elevation. Twenty minutes east on I-40, through Tijeras Canyon and up into the East Mountain communities, the temperature can be 10 to 15 degrees cooler at the same time

There’s something genuinely different about watching Albuquerque’s Fourth of July fireworks from the East Mountains rather than from the valley floor. You’re looking west toward the city with the whole Sandia range at your back, and on a clear July night — which most of them are — the view

There’s a specific smell that means it’s late summer in New Mexico, and it isn’t the desert heat or the rain on creosote bush. It’s roasted green chile, coming off a rotating drum cage in a grocery store parking lot, filling the whole neighborhood with the smell that New Mexicans