Along the way you can make stops in off-the-beaten-path locales like rugged Questa - which hosts a four-day plein air painting festival every July for artists of all skill levels - and buzzier hubs like Taos, as renowned for its adobe architecture as for its New Age proclivities. A roughly three-hour drive, the route will carry you through mountain ranges, forests, and lush river valleys. This picturesque 84-mile drive looping around Wheeler Peak, at 13,000-some feet the highest natural point in New Mexico, runs right through Red River.

If skiing and snowboarding aren’t your thing, tubing, snowshoeing, and snowmobiling are also offered.ĭuring the summer the park remakes itself, offering scenic chairlift rides to hiking trails, a ropes course, ziplining, and disc golf. Novices can explore a ski-through replica mining camp while daredevils tackle the curvy Cats Skinner run. You can catch a chairlift ride into this ski park just a few steps from downtown, and then spend the day swishing down ski runs suitable for all skill levels.

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