Fire Rock Navajo Casino is the first gaming property owned by the Navajo Nation Gaming Enterprise, located at 249 Historic Route 66 in Church Rock, New Mexico, USA, just east of Gallup near Red Rock State Park.
Bandelier National Monument near Los Alamos, New Mexico, protects over 33,000 acres of rugged canyons and mesas on the Pajarito Plateau, preserving Ancestral Puebloan homes, petroglyphs, and masonry walls from between AD 1150 and 1600 carved into soft volcanic tuff cliffs.
Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southeastern New Mexico is renowned for its vast limestone caves, including the famous Carlsbad Cavern, which features the Big Room—North America's largest cave chamber measuring nearly 4,000 feet long, 625 feet wide, and 255 feet high.
Ghost Ranch in north-central New Mexico near Abiquiú is a 21,000-acre retreat and education center owned by the Presbyterian Church, renowned for its dramatic red rock canyons, dinosaur fossil sites from the Triassic period, and as the summer home and painting inspiration for Georgia O'Keeffe starting in the 1930s.
Dwan Light Sanctuary near Las Vegas, New Mexico, on the United World College-USA campus in Montezuma, is a prismatic art installation opened in 1996, conceived by arts patron Virginia Dwan with solar artist Charles Ross and architect Laban Wingert to create a meditative refuge harnessing northern New Mexico's light.
Route 66 Casino Hotel is a vibrant, Americana-themed gaming resort owned by Laguna Development Corporation, located 17 miles west of downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, right off I-40 at Exit 140.
Santa Claran Hotel Casino is a welcoming Pueblo-owned resort in Española, New Mexico, USA, offering 122 stylish guest rooms and 19 suites with mountain views of the Sangre de Cristo range, free WiFi, modern amenities, and authentic Native American decor.
Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico preserves a vast network of ancient Ancestral Puebloan ruins in Chaco Canyon, serving as a major ceremonial, trade, and political center from AD 850 to 1250 with monumental great houses like Pueblo Bonito—the largest prehistoric structure in North America at 800 rooms and 39 kivas—built using quarried sandstone and timber hauled over 70 miles.
NRAO Very Large Array, located on the Plains of San Agustin 50 miles west of Socorro in central New Mexico, is one of the world's most powerful radio astronomy observatories operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory since the 1970s, featuring 27 massive 25-meter (82-foot) dish antennas arranged in a Y-shaped configuration on railroad tracks for reconfiguration into four main array sizes every few months to balance resolution and sensitivity.
Sugarite Canyon State Park, spanning 3,600 acres near Raton in northeastern New Mexico close to the Colorado border, blends historic early-20th-century coal-mining remnants with alpine forests, meadows, basalt cliffs, and two scenic lakes—Lake Maloya (120 acres) and Lake Alice—in the Raton Pass area of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains at elevations from 6,900 to 8,400 feet.
Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque, New Mexico, stretches 17 miles along the volcanic basalt escarpment of the West Mesa, preserving one of North America's largest collections of rock carvings with over 24,000 petroglyph images created 400 to 700 years ago by Native American Pueblo peoples and early Spanish settlers.
Sandia Peak Tramway in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a 2.7-mile aerial tramway opened in 1966, ascending the steep western face of the Sandia Mountains from 6,559 feet at the base station to 10,378 feet at the summit in about 15 minutes at 13.6 mph, carrying up to 50 passengers per car.
Acoma Pueblo, also called Sky City, is a historic Native American village atop a 357-foot-high mesa in northwestern New Mexico, about 45 miles southwest of Albuquerque.
Sky City Casino Hotel is a welcoming Acoma Pueblo-owned gaming resort just off historic Route 66 at I-40 Exit 102 near San Fidel and Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico, USA, featuring 131 comfortable rooms and suites with balconies, jetted tubs, wet bars, refrigerators, microwaves, free WiFi, and Southwestern decor.
Inn of the Mountain Gods is a premier AAA Four Diamond resort and casino owned by the Mescalero Apache Tribe in Mescalero, New Mexico, USA, nestled high in the Sierra Blanca mountains near Ruidoso with stunning lake and pine forest views.
Pecos National Historical Park in New Mexico preserves over 6,000 acres of layered history in the Pecos River Valley east of Santa Fe, featuring the ruins of Pecos Pueblo—known as Cicuye—a major Ancestral Puebloan settlement housing up to 2,000 people in multi-story complexes with over 20 ceremonial kivas from around AD 1100 until abandonment in 1838 amid disease, raids, and migration to Jemez Pueblo.
The Four Corners Monument marks the only point in the United States where the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet, forming a unique quadripoint.
Santa Fe in New Mexico is the oldest capital city in the United States, founded in 1610 by Spanish governor Don Pedro de Peralta as La Villa Real de la Santa Fé de San Francisco de Asís at the base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, predating Plymouth Colony by 13 years and built on ancient Pueblo Indian sites occupied since around 1050 AD.
