Things to do across New Mexico

Stay in rustic forest cabins with wood fireplaces in Ruidoso's Upper Canyon, open since 1938.

A three floor museum of regional history and artifacts in a 1903 former schoolhouse in Tucumcari.

Visitor guide to the mountain town of Ruidoso, New Mexico, covering lodging, dining, and outdoor recreation.

Tour the famous radio telescope array's visitor center and walk out to the base of its giant dish antennas.

A dinosaur and fossil museum in Tucumcari, New Mexico run by Mesalands Community College.

Hike off trail through 45,000 acres of eroded badlands, colorful hoodoos and petrified wood.

Swim, snorkel or scuba dive in a clear, bell-shaped artesian sinkhole just off historic Route 66.

Sleep in a restored 1939 Route 66 motor court with attached garages and a glowing neon sign.

Drive a 12-mile tour loop and walk nature trails to watch sandhill cranes, geese and ducks on Rio Grande wetlands.

Descend by trail or elevator into Carlsbad Cavern and walk the Big Room, then watch bats fly out at dusk in summer.

Walk through the stone great houses of Chaco Canyon, including Pueblo Bonito, along the Canyon Loop Drive.

Walk the Inscription Loop past centuries of carved names and petroglyphs, then climb to the Atsinna pueblo ruins.

Walk a one-mile loop trail up Cliff Dweller Canyon and step inside cave rooms built by Mogollon people in the late 1200s.

Browse exhibits and firsthand accounts of the 1947 Roswell Incident inside a 1930s movie theater downtown.

View a volcanic rock pinnacle that rises about 1,583 feet from the desert floor of the Navajo Nation.