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$50+A longtime Rio Grande outfitter running guided whitewater rafting trips from mellow floats to Class IV-V whitewater near Taos.

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Hike red-rock trails Georgia O'Keeffe painted and visit two museums of paleontology and anthropology.
280 Private Drive 1708 · Abiquiu, NM
Ghost Ranch is a 21,000-acre retreat and education center of rock walls and vivid color about 65 miles northwest of Santa Fe. Georgia O'Keeffe kept a summer home here and painted the landscape, with Cerro Pedernal often appearing in her work. A day pass covers the hiking trails, a labyrinth, and two museums, one of them showing Triassic fossils from three nearby quarries. The Kitchen Mesa Trail leads to the quarry where hundreds of Coelophysis dinosaur skeletons were found.
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