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Nobody can tell you in advance how long a tank will last, but three numbers get you close: your furnace rating, how often it runs, and how much propane you have. Here’s the math, the safety rules, and what changes at 6,000 feet. What these numbers are: The table is my own arithmetic from propane’s

A museum built from 50,000 glass bottles and decades of hand-carved figures closes for the season at the end of this week. If you’ve been meaning to visit, here’s what to know, including the Sandia Crest closure that affects the drive. Check before you drive: Hours, prices and the season end date come from Tinkertown’s

Drive around Albuquerque in the fall and you’ll see them hanging from porches, gate posts and shop doors: long strings of dark red chile, drying in the sun. It’s one of the most recognizable sights in New Mexico, and it’s tied to a harvest that’s happening right now. A note on timing and sellers: Ristra

By mid-October, the biggest festival weeks are behind Santa Fe. The galleries on Canyon Road are still open, the Plaza is easier to walk, and the nights are cool enough to make an evening there pleasant. It’s one of the best times for a day trip from Albuquerque. A word on “fewer crowds”: I couldn’t

Two hours west of Albuquerque, a frozen lava tube, a field of black basalt and a sandstone cliff covered in 400 years of signatures sit within about an hour’s drive of each other. The timing this week matters, because the schedule at El Morro changes on Sunday. Two schedule changes to know about: El Morro

White Sands is one of New Mexico’s best trips, and October is a very good month for it. But it’s also a long drive from Albuquerque, and the park has some current restrictions that most guides skip. Here’s what to know before you point the RV south. A note on conditions: White Sands sits inside

The sound is hard to describe until you’ve heard it: a rising, whistling scream that echoes across a mountain meadow at dawn. If you’ve been meaning to hear elk bugling in New Mexico, the Jemez Mountains are the place, and mid-October is late enough in the season that the window is worth using now. A

From the East Mountains, the best pumpkin farm trip isn’t down in the valley at all. It’s east, out I-40 to Moriarty, where one of the area’s longest-running patches is open weekends through Halloween. The valley farms are worth the drive too, but it helps to know which is which. How I’ve sorted this: McCall’s

Albuquerque has two very different ways to experience Día de los Muertos: a grassroots South Valley procession that’s been running for decades, and a ten-day Old Town celebration built around thousands of marigolds. This year they overlap on the same weekend, which makes the planning worth getting right. Before you plan around any date: The

This isn’t a made-up food blogger gimmick. The Green Chile Cheeseburger Trail is a genuine, official New Mexico Tourism Department trail, and Central New Mexico, including the East Mountains corridor right along the RV park’s doorstep, is genuinely part of the real map. New Mexico takes its green chile cheeseburger seriously enough that the state’s