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.

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Bisti/De-Na-Zin Badlands

A trail-less wilderness of alien hoodoos and petrified wood — you navigate by landmark, and you'll have it to yourself.

El Santuario de Chimayó

A small adobe pilgrimage church famous for its "holy dirt" — the Lourdes of the Southwest, on the High Road to Taos.

Very Large Array

27 radio telescopes wheeling across the Plains of San Agustin — the landscape from Contact, eerie and vast.

Gila Cliff Dwellings

700-year-old Mogollon cliff homes at the end of a gorgeous, slow mountain road into the Gila Wilderness.

Madrid

A near-ghost coal town reborn as an arts colony on the Turquoise Trail between Santa Fe and Albuquerque.

Three Rivers Petroglyph Site

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.

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