A trail-less wilderness of alien hoodoos and petrified wood — you navigate by landmark, and you'll have it to yourself.
Road trips · New Mexico
New Mexico road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in New Mexico — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
Crowd-nominated in the Gem Hunt. Add yours and vote the finalists into the app.
A small adobe pilgrimage church famous for its "holy dirt" — the Lourdes of the Southwest, on the High Road to Taos.
27 radio telescopes wheeling across the Plains of San Agustin — the landscape from Contact, eerie and vast.
700-year-old Mogollon cliff homes at the end of a gorgeous, slow mountain road into the Gila Wilderness.
A near-ghost coal town reborn as an arts colony on the Turquoise Trail between Santa Fe and Albuquerque.
A 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.
Plan the New Mexico trip
Get the scenic route, the stops, and the timing.
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