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Get set, leaf peepers. Your favorite season is here.

As New Mexico's only U-Pick chile farm, Big Jim Farms offers nine acres of fun, excitement, and connection to the land.

Chiles aren't just found on your dinner table, they're used in medicinal creams, lipstick, bear repellent and to give captive birds and fish a redder hue.

As one of the only scientific institutions devoted to a so-called condiment, New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute flourishes in Las Cruces.

A 10-year effort to restore one of New Mexico’s most distinctive chiles underscores how memory thrives in our taste buds.

Big Bird, the roadrunner sculpture at the Scenic Overlook rest area on I-10, is a wonder of re-use.

Pull over just to take in the view or to explore the petroglyph-rich canyon below.

How Jack Johnson kept his heavyweight title and put Las Vegas, New Mexico, on the map.

Kathy Knapp, the woman who reinvented herself to put Pie Town on the map, looks toward a new adventure.

From easy to strenuous, we recommend these open-air adventures searching for lady beetles in Capulin Volcano National Monument, cooling off in Carlsbad, picking berries at La Cueva Farms, and more.