NEW MEXICO TOURIST INFORMATION
New Mexico—General
Santa Fe Convention and Visitors Bureau
Red River Visitor Information Center
Albuquerque Convention and Visitors Bureau
New Mexico Magazine: Link Directory to the State
Sangres.com: New Mexico Vacation Guide
HorseTailTrails.com—tourist and cultural information on Northern New Mexico
Sangre de Cristo Mountains
Sangres.com—Excellent site on everything related to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains
High Road to Taos
Websites
High Road to Taos—good overall introduction from New Mexico Tourism's Scenic Byways website
High Road to Taos—excellent site from sangres.com
High Road to Taos—from TaosGuide
High Road to Taos—from the Red River visitor's information site
High Road to Taos—from Moon Travel Guides
High Road to Taos—from the Santa Fe tourism site
Visit the Woodcarvers: Artisans along the High Road to Taos Keep Spanish Traditions Alive—article for Sunset magazine
Take the High Road: Santa Fe to Taos, New Mexico—article from ProtoTravels.
High Road to Taos—colorful map from New Mexico Vacation Directory (see detail at left)
Tour 1: Breathe in the Mountain Vistas—the High Road, but starting from Española
Driving the High Road to Taos—by Betsy Malloy from About.com (she writes on California travel, but this page is about New Mexico)
State Road 518 from Las Vegas to Taos—from MileByMile.com.
High Road to Taos—tour with photos (see left) and audio CD available from GallopingGalleries.com
High Road to Taos with nice map from Go-NewMexico.com
High Road to Taos video by OpenRoadTV.
Magazine Articles
“Visit the Woodcarvers: Artisans along the High Road to Taos Keep Spanish Traditions Alive” by Sharon Niederman, Sunset magazine (2004) (see photo at right).
“Great Escapes: The Insider's Guide to Taos and the High Road to Santa Fe” by Joy Overbeck, Colorado Expression (2006).
“On the High Road to Taos” by Hugh Price, New York Times (1983).
“Take the Scenic High Road to Taos”—travel article from Denton Record-Chronicle
“Surviving the Centuries: Discover New Mexico's Spanish Colonial Art in Timeless High Road Villages, Historic Churches, Galleries, and a Vibrant New Meseum” by Matthew Jaffe, Sunset magazine (2002).
Books
Along the High Road: A Guide to the Scenic Route between Espanola and Taos by Margaret M. Nava, Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2004.
Nambé Pueblo
Nambé Pueblo—from the New Mexico Department of Tourism
Nambé Pueblo—from the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
About Nambé Pueblo—from the Nambé Falls information site
Nambé Pueblo—from New Mexico Magazine
Nambé—from online version of Spanish Mission Churches of New Mexico by L. Bradford Prince (1915).
Nambé Falls & Recreation Area
Nambé Falls—official site
Nambé Falls & Recreation Area from New Mexico Tourism Department.
Chimayó
Chimayó—official site, full of information
Chimayó, New Mexico—Wikipedia article
Plaza del Cerro—information about Chimayó's original fortified plaza.
“Introduction to Chimayo” from Frommer's.
“Chimayo, New Mexico”—video from TravelChannelTV.
El Santuario de Chimayó—official website
El Santuario de Chimayó—article from Chimayó website; see also article below it on the Santo Niño Chapel
Santuario de Chimayó from New Mexico Tourism Department
Chimayo Easter Pilgrimage from New Mexico Tourism Department.
“Chimayo Journal: A Pastor Begs to Differ With Flock on Miracles” by Erik Eckholm, New York Times (2008)
Pilgrimage to Chimayo, New Mexico—video by Julien McRoberts
Córdova
The Art of the Image Maker in New Mexico—text and images from The Wood Carvers of Córdova, New Mexico by Charles L. Briggs, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press
A Woman, a Carver: Lifetime Achievement Winner Couldn't Stop Making Art by Inez Russell, Santa Fe New MexicanJuly 22, 2009
Córdova—article from Moon Travel Guides.
Truchas
Truchas—from Sangres.com
Truchas—from Wikipedia
Truchas—from Moon Travel Guides
Truchas—history of Truchas from a local B&B, with old black-and-white photographs
The Truchas Grant: Nuestra Señora del Rosario, San Fernando y Santiago Grant—a very thorough history by Mark Shiller, from The Center for Land Grant Studies.
Truchas land grant documents—photos of the actual documents from the office of the New Mexico State Historian.
“The Milagro Beanfield War—Wikipedia article about the movie, filmed in Truchas and based on the novel by John Nichols about water, politics, and culture in a small community in Northern New Mexico
Ojo Sarco
Blue Spring Orchard, Ojo Sarco, New Mexico: Orchard Restoration on the High Road to Taos—blog about restoring a centuries-old orchard in Ojo Sarco
Las Trampas
Las Trampas—article from Sangres.com
Photos of Las Trampas from the Library of Congress, taken by John Collier in the 1940s for the Farm Security Administration
Photos of Las Trampas from the Library of Congress, taken by John Collier in the 1940s for the Farm Security Administration (from Flickr)
Las Trampas—Moon Travel Guides article
San José de Gracia Church—from Wikipedia
San José de Gracia Church—from National Historic Landmarks, National Parks Service website.
San José de Gracia Church—more photos and drawings of the church from the Historic American Buildings Survey, 1961.
Chamisal
Chamisal, New Mexico—from Wikipedia
Picurís Pueblo
Picurís Pueblo—from the New Mexico Tourism Department
Picurís Pueblo—from the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
Picurís Pueblo—from New Mexico Magazine
Picuris Pueblo through Time: Eight Centuries of Change in a Northern Rio Grande Pueblo—digitized book, edited by Michael A. Adler and Herbert W. Dick, William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, Taos, 1999.
Picurís Pueblo—from Wikipedia
Picurís—from online version of Spanish Mission Churches of New Mexico by L. Bradford Prince (1915).
Peñasco
New Wave: Welcome Change Washes over Historic Peñasco by Lesley S. King, New Mexico MagazineJuly 2009
Peñasco—from Sangres.com
Peñasco—from Moon Travel Guides
Ranchos de Taos
San Francisco de Asís Church—from GreatBuildings.com
The Tour Brochure contains an
excellent map, information on
artists and galleries (many are
open year-round), and information
on restaurants, B&Bs, and other
businesses on the High Road
to Taos.
Made possible in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Partial funding also received from New Mexico Tourism Department and from Rio Arriba County and Taos County Lodgers' Tax.
