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The New Mexico State Fair runs September 10 through 20, 2026 at Expo New Mexico — eleven days, over 500,000 attendees, and a genuine on-site RV camping option that sounds convenient right up until you read the fine print: it’s first-come, first-served, with no reservation. For RVers who want the fair without the parking gamble, […]

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 pollution, and this August gives

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 roof, sealant, and awning check

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 you exactly that combination. One

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 dark alternatives within the same

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. New Mexico has one of

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 secret exactly, but it’s the

Pecos National Historical Park sits at nearly 6,900 feet in the Upper Pecos Valley, which means it’s running noticeably cooler than Albuquerque on any given July afternoon — and it’s carrying 12,000 years of continuous human history across a landscape that includes an ancestral pueblo, a Spanish mission church, a Civil War battlefield, and a

The 54th Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta runs October 3 through 11, 2026, with the theme “The Scenic Route” — a nod to the Route 66 centennial. More than 500 balloons. Nine days. Two weekends. About 500,000 to 900,000 visitors over the run of the event. And a finite number of RV sites in the Albuquerque

The snowbird who books their fall Albuquerque stay in July is the one who gets the site they want. The snowbird who books in September gets what’s left. That’s the simple version of what this post is about, but there’s enough to understand about why October in Albuquerque fills up the way it does —