New Mexico Outdoor
Roughing It In Luxury-Abiquiu, New Mexico 505.901.7321
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In this land of shifting light, boundless skies and fused cultures, Ghost Ranch offers two locations. The towering rock walls and vivid colors of our Abiquiu location — where Georgia O'Keeffe painted for fifty years — and our Santa Fe location, an oasis in the city different; both places for renewal, retreat and transformation.
Ghost Ranch is in Georgia O'Keeffe Country- NewMexicoOutDoor.com is in Georgia O'Keeffe Country, where you'll find Lodging and Activities Galore! Famed Artist, Georgia O'Keeffe always kept a residence on Ghost Ranch.
The Monastery of Christ in the Desert, Abiquiu, New Mexico, U.S.A., was founded in 1964 by Fr. Aelred Wall, OSB, with monks of Mount Saviour Monastery in New York state. In 1983 the Monastery of Christ in the Desert was received into the English Province of the Subiaco Congregation as a Conventual Priory and in 1996 became an autonomous abbey. From its beginning the monastery has followed the Benedictine life with no external apostolates, but maintains a guesthouse for private retreats where men and women can share the Divine Office and Mass in the Abbey Church with the monks. Besides maintaining the guesthouse, the monks engage in craft, maintenance and computer work at the monastery. A gift shop is also part of the monastery's income, which includes a mail-order department of books and other religious items.
Echo Amphitheatre
The Carson National Forest is one of five National Forests in New Mexico. The National Forests are America's Great outdoors, here to serve the American people at work and play!
Some of the finest mountain scenery in the Southwest is found in the 1.5 million acres covered by the Carson National Forest. Elevations rise from 6,000 feet to 13,161 feet at Wheeler Peak, the highest in New Mexico. Our objective is to maintain that natural beauty.Abiquiu Lake is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineer managed lake, with recreation areas and a campground. Federal Recreation Passports are accepted. This 5,200-surface-acre reservoir offers some of the finest fishing in northern New Mexico. Reptile fossils 200 million years old have been found in the area. The area includes a fine panoramic view of the Cerro Pedernal (Flint Mountain) from the dam.
The scenery of the area includes Pinon (Pine), Juniper and Sage among colorful rock formations. Surrounding attractions include: Ghost Ranch, Georgia O'Keefe Museum, San Pedro Wilderness, Cumbres Toltec Railroad, Chaco Canyon, Bandelier Nat'l Mon., Taos and Santa Fe, NM.
From the rugged Rocky Mountains to the desert grasslands of the Chihuahuan Desert, the CDT extends for 770 miles through New Mexico, a mosaic of azure skies, adobe architecture, ancient civilizations, “Wild West” desperados and red rock cliffs.
The CDT meanders through some of New Mexico’s most spectacular natural and historic landscapes: San Pedro Parks and Chama River Wildernesses with dramatic mountains, mesa tops and canyon lands made famous by Georgia O’Keefe, the Rio Puerco wild lands, thousand year old Zuni-Acoma trade routes, the El Malpais National Monument badlands: one of the nation’s best examples of recent volcanic landscapes, the Aldo Leopold Wilderness, the Gila Wilderness—our nation’s first—and ending at the Big Hatchet Mountains Wilderness Study Area, the stomping grounds of Geronimo.
New Mexico is home to the pike, pronghorn antelope, roadrunner, lizard, javelina and turkey vultures, as well as, pinon-juniper, ponderosa pine, cottonwood, aspen, mesquite, leafy aster, prickly pear, and yucca. CHECK OUT THIS YEARS NMO EXCURSIONS
Hidden away in a little-known corner of the southern Rocky Mountains is a precious historic artifact of the American West. Built in 1880 and little changed since, the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad is the most spectacular example of steam era mountain railroading in North America.
This Scenic Railroad ride, runs thru the most beautiful Rocky Mountain scenery from Chama, New Mexico to Antonito, Colorado and back again.
The 2009 season begins May 23 and runs through October 18
- Backpacking & Camping
- Orienteering
- GeoCache
- Vista Del La Sotella
- Box Canyon-Ghost Ranch (Updated)
- Window Rock Hike (Updated & With Garmin Route)
- Copper Canyon (Updated)
- Rincon del Cuervo (Updated wih Garmin Route-Rim Trail)
- Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks (Updated)
- Sierra Negra (Updated)
- Heron-El Vado Lakes
- Continental Divide Trail With 2010's Section Hike in June!
- Cerro Pedernal (Updated with Directions and Garmin Route)
- The Lake Hike (Updated With Garmin Route)
- Spring Bosque Hike
- Mica Mine Peak
- Rim Vista Hike (With Garmin Tracks)
- NMO to Ojo Caliente Minerals Springs (With Garmin Tracks)
- The White Place (New Page with Garmin Tracks)
- Wheeler Peak (New Page with Garmin Route)
- Canjilon Lakes
- Middle Fork Gila River (New Page)
- Pecos Wilderness & Northern Sangre de Cristo (New Page)
- The Black Range (Southern NM-New Page)
- The Four Corners
- New Mexico
- Santa Fe
- Indian Market (New Page)
- International Folk Art Market (New Page)
- Spanish Market (New Page)
- Taos (Updated)
- Los Alamos (Updated)
- Chama (New Page)
- Albuquerque (New Page)
- Petroglyphs National Monument (New Page)
- International Balloon Fiesta (New Page)
- New Mexico Info -New Mexico Trivia & Fascinating Facts
- Hatch Chili Fiesta (New Page)
- Carlsbad Caverns (New Page)
- The Great American Duck Race (New Page)
- White Sands National Monument (New Page)
- Roswell (New Page)
- Gila Wilderness (New Page)
- Recommended Reading (New Page)
- Recommended Movies (New Page)
- Santa Fe
- Regional Activities
- Abiquiu (Updated)
- Excerpt "The Ditch"
- Local Scenery (Updated)
- Christ in the Desert Monestary (New Page)
- Echo Amphitheater (New Page)
- Ghost Ranch (New Page)
- Scenic Road Trips
- Route 66
- Colorado Rockies
- Jemez Mountains (Updated With Garmin Route)
- Turquoise Trail (New Page)
- Enchanted Circle (New Page)
- Taos High Road (New Page-Very Close To Us)
- Hot Springs Interlude (New Page-We're Part of this Road Trip w-Garmin Route)
- Rio Route (New Page-Very Close To Us)
- An Abiquiu Outing (New Page-Begins Right Here! w-Garmin Route)
- Climate of New Mexico (New Page)
- X Skiing (New Page)