Manzano Mountains State Park is a 160-acre retreat nestled in the wooded foothills of the Manzano Mountains in central New Mexico, at about 7,250 feet elevation, roughly 16 miles north of Mountainair along NM-55.
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico, is the only U.S. museum dedicated solely to exhibiting, collecting, and interpreting progressive contemporary Native American art from 1962 onward, stewarding over 9,500 works in all media created by Indigenous artists.
The Turquoise Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a family-owned museum established by the Zachary family, renowned for their passion and expertise in turquoise cutting and trading since the mid-20th century.
Edition ONE Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a contemporary art and photography gallery located at 729 Canyon Road in the heart of the historic Canyon Road arts district, curated by Pilar Law and specializing in limited editions of new and traditional process photography alongside local and world-renowned artists' paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and jewelry.
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, located 40 miles southwest of Santa Fe near Cochiti Pueblo in north-central New Mexico, features dramatic cone-shaped hoodoos or tent rocks formed 6 to 7 million years ago from Jemez volcanic eruptions that deposited over 1,000 feet of pumice, ash, and tuff, later eroded by wind and water into light-colored spires up to 90 feet tall topped by harder caprock.
Fenton Lake State Park covers 700 acres at 7,900 feet elevation in the Jemez Mountains of northwestern New Mexico, 33 miles north of San Ysidro among ponderosa pines near Jemez Springs.
Heron Lake State Park sits along the southern shore of its namesake 5,900-acre reservoir in northern New Mexico's Rio Arriba County, at 7,167 feet elevation amid tall pines near Tierra Amarilla, about 80 miles northwest of Santa Fe.
Living Desert Zoo and Gardens State Park in Carlsbad, New Mexico, is a 1,500-acre native wildlife zoo and botanical garden showcasing over 40 species of Chihuahuan Desert animals like pronghorn, bison, bobcats, cougars, Mexican wolves, prairie dogs, reptiles, and birds in aviaries, plus hundreds of plants including cacti, succulents, agave, yucca, and ocotillo in a Succulents of the World greenhouse.
Oliver Lee Memorial State Park is a 640-acre desert oasis at the mouth of Dog Canyon in the Sacramento Mountains foothills near Alamogordo, New Mexico, at about 4,400 feet elevation in Otero County.
Brantley Lake State Park, New Mexico's southernmost lake, spans over 3,000 acres in the Pecos River Valley about 12 miles north of Carlsbad at 3,295 feet elevation, featuring a reservoir created by Brantley Dam in the 1980s for flood control, irrigation, and recreation.
Pecos Canyon State Park, New Mexico's 35th state park, is a newly developed high-elevation area (7,628 to 8,196 feet) in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near the Pecos Wilderness, just north of the village of Pecos and a short drive from Santa Fe.
Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino, located 15 minutes north of Santa Fe in the Pueblo of Pojoaque on sovereign Native American land, is New Mexico's largest destination casino hotel opened in 2008 with a Hilton property featuring 393 Spanish-Pueblo style rooms and suites overlooking the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
The Santa Fe Botanical Garden, located on Museum Hill just southeast of downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a 20-acre garden showcasing the diverse native and drought-tolerant plants of the Southwest amid beautiful natural landscapes at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
Taos Pueblo in New Mexico is an ancient Native American village of the Taos-Tiwa people located about one mile north of the modern city of Taos, known as one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the United States with adobe multi-storied buildings likely constructed between 1000 and 1450 AD.
Ohkay Hotel Casino Resort is a Pueblo of Ohkay Owingeh-owned gaming and lodging property at 340 Highway 68 in Ohkay Owingeh (formerly San Juan Pueblo), New Mexico, USA, north of Española in the scenic Rio Grande Valley with mountain views.
Mesilla Valley Bosque State Park, located near Las Cruces in southern New Mexico along the Rio Grande, spans about 305 acres of river woodland and restored wetlands at around 3,900 feet elevation, preserving one of the region's few remaining bosque habitats where riparian forest meets the Chihuahuan Desert.
Casino Apache in Mescalero, New Mexico, on the Mescalero Apache Reservation along Highway 70 just west of Ruidoso, operates as a non-smoking gaming venue within a travel center popular with locals and travelers for its slots and video poker machines alongside a full-service truck stop, convenience store stocked with essentials, and a soft-touch car wash.
SunRay Park and Casino in Farmington, New Mexico, originally opened in 1984 as San Juan Downs, closed in 1993 due to declining business, but was revived in 1999 following racino legislation and renamed SunRay Park.
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