The Gem Hunt
America decides what makes the map.
Every state has a spot the algorithms miss — the one locals send strangers to. Name it. Vote on the finalists. The winners get built into Roamward, the scenic road-trip app that proves you actually went. No download required to play.
Nominate
What does New Mexico do better than anywhere?
One hidden gem — a place a chatbot would never know. The most-named spots become finalists, and the crowd votes the winner into Roamward.
Vote
New Mexico gems, most-loved first
- 1Bisti/De-Na-Zin BadlandsA trail-less wilderness of alien hoodoos and petrified wood — you navigate by landmark, and you'll have it to yourself.
- 2El Santuario de ChimayóA small adobe pilgrimage church famous for its "holy dirt" — the Lourdes of the Southwest, on the High Road to Taos.
- 3Very Large Array27 radio telescopes wheeling across the Plains of San Agustin — the landscape from Contact, eerie and vast.
- 4Gila Cliff Dwellings700-year-old Mogollon cliff homes at the end of a gorgeous, slow mountain road into the Gila Wilderness.
- 5MadridA near-ghost coal town reborn as an arts colony on the Turquoise Trail between Santa Fe and Albuquerque.
- 6Three Rivers Petroglyph SiteA basalt ridge south of Tularosa carpeted with over 21,000 ancient petroglyphs you reach on a rugged half-mile trail, with the Sacramento Mountains as your backdrop off US 54.
- 7Tinkertown MuseumAlong the Turquoise Trail in Sandia Park, a hand-carved miniature Old West town and circus one man tinkered on for 40 years, with walls built from 50,000 glass bottles — a delightful side trip from Albuquerque.
- 8Blue Hole of Santa RosaRight off old Route 66, an artesian spring that's a perfect 80-foot-deep circle of impossibly clear blue water at a steady 61 degrees, where locals swim and scuba classes train below.
- 9City of Rocks State ParkHalfway between Silver City and Deming, a cluster of 40-foot volcanic pinnacles forming a maze of stone lanes you can wander and camp among, under some of the darkest skies in the country.
- 10Catwalk National Recreation TrailNear Glenwood in the Gila high country, a metal walkway clings to the cliffs of Whitewater Canyon, following an old mining-era waterline above the creek — a cool, shaded day-use detour.
Not your state’s turn yet?
Want Roamward to map New Mexico next?
Add your vote — the loudest state gets mapped first.
How it works
Nominate
Drop the most underrated spot in your state — the gem an itinerary generator would never surface.
The crowd ranks it
Name a place someone already nominated and it rises. The most-loved gems become the state’s finalists.
Vote the winner in
Finalists go to a public vote. Winners get built into Roamward — credited to the people who found them.
Go verify it
Drive it, GPS-verify the stop, earn the badge, and share the map that proves you were first.
Don’t miss the winners
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