Magazine

Route 66 still draws cruisers to Santa Rosa. Hop off the main drag, where nostalgia and adventure await. (Bring a swimsuit!)

Friends and family in the Río Abajo turn a harvest tradition into an epic annual event. It’s matanza time!

Old Hispanic villages stood in the way of creating Navajo Lake. The rising waters won, but a holy place was saved.

After earning fame in the 1960s as the nation’s preeminent Native American fiction writer, N. Scott Momaday kindles the stories of his ancestral peoples, revealing who they—and he—are today.

The fates and fortunes of this rural town in the middle of NM speak volumes about the bedrock character of the state.