Grants, New Mexico

Northwest New Mexico Visitor Center

Mount Taylor

11,300 feet. Sacred to Navajos. Wildlife, hiking, camping, hunting, sightseeing. Lobo Canyon Campground (day use), Coal Mine Campground (overnight)

Bandera Crater / Ice Caves

800-ft. volcanic cone, hiking trail along rim. 17

New Mexico Museum of Mining

Nowhere in the world are the raw and often dangerous conditions of the hole in the ground re-created and domed with a graceful white stone and glass museum as they are in Grants, New Mexico, in the "only Uranium Mining Museum in the World." As visitors wind through "Section 26,"

Acoma Pueblo

Acoma Pueblo - known as Sky City - is the oldest continually inhabited city in North America. Sitting high atop a mesa, Acoma is home to the historic San Estevan del Rey Mission church. Take the opportunity to tour the pueblo, snap photos (with a permit)