Hidden gems and scenic drives across New Mexico — the Musical Highway, the High Road to Taos, the VLA — curated with sources, protocol guidance, and the practical details that make the detour worth it.
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Stone rooms built into five caves above Cliff Dweller Canyon, home to Mogollon families in the 1280s — and you can still walk through them on a one-mile loop. Getting there is the adventure: NM-15 from Silver City is 44 slow, switchbacked miles into the Gila, so give it two hours and make a day of it.
A dot on US-60 at the Continental Divide named for exactly what it sells: pie. A couple of cafés with famously fickle hours (go before mid-afternoon), the annual September Pie Festival, and the windmill-studded plains of Catron County all around.
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