New Mexico

Land of Enchantment.

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Honorable mentions:

• • • Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument (BLM)
    • Prehistoric Trackways National Monument (BLM)
    • Rio Grande del Norte National Monument (BLM)
    • Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument (BLM)
    • Otero Mesa, located in south central New Mexico, has an advocacy group, the Coalition for Otero Mesa, proposing protected status for “America’s Wildest Grassland” (oteromesa.org) (wildmesquite.org).
    • Milnesand Prairie Preserve protected by the Nature Conservancy and the Prairie Chicken Wildlife Areas protected by the State of New Mexico Department of Game & Fish manage a limited amount of land in the east-central part of New Mexico as needed prairie chicken habitat.

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10. Fort Union National Monument

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9. Volcanic New Mexico

• • • Valles Caldera National Preserve
    • Capulin Volcano National Monument
    • El Malpais National Monument

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8. Manhattan Project National Historical Park – Los Alamos (a small town gem)

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7. Roswell

• • • International UFO Museum and Research Center
    • Rosewell UFO Spacewalk
    • Downtown Historic District

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6. Albuquerque and the Petroglyph National Monument, plus New Mexico’s portion of old Route 66

• • • Blue Swallow Motel in Tucumcari
    • Blue Hole and Silver Moon Cafe in Santa Rosa
    • Sands Motel and New Mexico Mining Museum in Grants
    • El Rancho Hotel in Gallup

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5. American Indian Pueblos of New Mexico

• • • Taos Pueblo (a World Heritage Site and small town gem)
    • Acoma Pueblo – Sky City
    • Zuni Pueblo – Zuni-Cibola Complex National Historic Landmark (meritorious to be a national historical park) – Legendary Seven Cities of Gold
      1. Zuni Visitor Center/Zuni Pueblo Main Street and Old Zuni Mission
      2. Halona: Idiwan’a (the Middle Place) and other Pueblo of Zuni (town) tours
      3. Zuni artists (traditional pottery, stone “fetish” carving, silversmith/jewelry, woodcraving, painting, beadwork, traditional foods and cooking/bread baking, weaving, and music and dance)
      4. Hawikuh Ruins, Village of the Great Kivas, Badger Springs, and Zuni Pueblo (nation) tours
      5. A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center
    • San Ildefonso Pueblo
      1. San Ildefonso Pueblo Museum
      2. San Ildefonso Mission Church
      3. Pajarito Plateau along the Rio Grande
      4. Black-on-black pottery
      5. Buffalo Deer Dance
    • Jemez Pueblo – San Diego Canyon in the Jemez Mountains

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4. Santa Fe

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3. White Sands National Park – World Heritage Tentative List

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2. Carlsbad Caverns National Park – a World Heritage Site

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1. Pueblo Ruins of New Mexico

• • • Chaco Culture National Historical Park (a World Heritage Site)
    • Pecos National Historical Park
    • Aztec Ruins National Monument
    • Bandelier National Monument
    • El Morro National Monument
    • Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
    • Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
    • Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1 – Clovis Culture Archaeology Site – National Historic Landmark