New Mexico
Inside Taos Pueblo, the tiny American town that’s hardly changed in 1,000 years
Certain areas of the pueblo are cordoned off, where the ceremonial chambers, known as kivas, lie hidden under the ground. Much about the pueblos remains enigmatic, protected from the commodification that’s befallen many similar sites. “Everything here is done by ceremony,” said Jaylen. “Some are open to outsiders, but the sacred ones are not.”
We came into a small plaza, from which various narrow alleyways radiated, dotted with small souvenir shops selling silver jewellery set with turquoise, elk and buffalo hide drums, and colourful moccasins – evidence of the modern world slowly seeping in. I looked out at the glistening adobe houses and the mountains beyond, and hoped very much that Taos Pueblo would be here, just as it is now, for another thousand years.
Essentials
The Phoenix has rooms from £345 per night, sleeping four.
British Airways flies from London to Denver from £600 return, from which it is a five-hour drive to Taos. Guided tours of Taos pueblo can be arranged with Heritage Inspirations from £250 for the horno baking day. For more information visit taospueblo.com.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A ridge of high pressure is building in and will start a warming trend for New Mexico that will only last for a few days.
High temperatures will get back toward average, even above average, for this time of year. That will be cut short this weekend when we return to cooler temperatures and another chance of snow.
Meteorologist Kira Miner shares all the details in her full forecast in the video above.
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New Mexico congressional delegation announces more than $172M for transportation projects
The Rail Runner arriving at the Santa Fe Depot (Photo by Austin Fisher / Source NM)
The U.S. Department of Transportation has will provide more than $172 million for a swath of New Mexico transportation projects, the state’s congressional delegation announced Tuesday.
The federal funding comes via the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and “reflects” the law’s intention, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) said in a statement: to ” improve safety for everyone using our roads, grow local economies, lower transportation costs, and create high-quality jobs New Mexicans can build their families around.”
The funded projects include:
• $61.8 million to the City of Las Cruces for the Mesa Grande Drive Extension Project
• $44.8 million for the state Department of Transportation for the Allison Road Grade Separated Crossing Project, which will support improvements to BNSF Railway infrastructure and Amtrak’s Southwest Chief route in Gallup, New Mexico
• $36.1 million to the state transportation project for reconstruction of two segments on the NM 128 mainline and three major intersections at WIPP Road, Buck Jackson and Orla roads in Carlsbad
• $22.4 million to the Rio Metro Regional Transit District to construct a new Rail Runner expression operations and maintenance facility
• $3.3 million for McKinely County/BNSF’s rail crossing elimination project
• $2 million for the City of Gallup for its 2nd and 3rd street crossings community planning project
• $1 million for the City of Clovis for its New Mexico Corridor Improvement Project
• $480,913 to the Mescalero Apache Tribe for a snowplow and salt spreader
• $158,448 to the Pueblo of Taos for capital improvements for two of the pueblo’s bus stops to upgrade them to American with Disabilities Act standards
“These projects will ensure safer roads for pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists, while making our rail systems safer and strengthening the links between our communities,” U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) said in a statement
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