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craftspeople, and New Age
entrepreneurs, and there are
over 20 galleries, restaurants,
craft, and antiques shops. The
Old Coal Town Museum in
town displays a variety of old
locomotives, vintage vehicles,
buildings, and mining gear.
Tiny Cerrillos has a 2,000-year
history of mining turquoise,
gold, copper, and coal. Today, its
sleepy streets attract browsing
tourists who enjoy the fine Casa Centuries-old houses at Acoma Pueblo on a high plateau
Grande Trading Post with its
turqu oise mining museum, rock Acoma is one of the oldest 7 El Morro National
and gift shop, and petting zoo. continuously inhabited towns Monument
in the US, occupied since before
E Old Coal Town Museum the 12th century (see p43). Tel (505) 783-4226. Open visitor
2846 Hwy 14, Madrid. Tel (505) Today, fewer than 30 people center: 9am–5pm daily (6pm in
473-0743. Open Apr–Oct: 11am–4pm live on the 70-acre (28-ha) mesa summer); Hiking Trail: 9am–4pm daily.
daily, weather permitting. & 7 top year round; 6,000 others Closed Jan 1, Thanksgiving, Dec 25.
Sandia Peak Tramway rising over pine forest and mountains near Albuquerque P Casa Grande Trading Post from local towns return to their & 7 8  ∑ nps.gov/elmo
17 Waldo St., Cerillos. ancestral home for festivals Rising dramatically from the
2 Sandia Peak is believed to have been here 4 The Turquoise Trail Tel (505) 438-3008. & 7 and celebrations. surrounding plain, El Morro is a
Tramway in 1540 on a quest to find n P. O. Box 303, Sandia Park 87047 ∑ casagrande tradingpost.com As well as original pueblo long sandstone cliff that slopes
Cibola, the fabled seven cities buildings, the village features the gently upward to a high bluff,
30 Tramway Road NE. Tel (505) 856- of gold (see p43). (505) 281-5233. ∑ turquoisetrail.org 1629 mission church, San Esteben where it suddenly drops off.
7325. Open late May–early Sep: Nearby Sandia Pueblo is home Known as the Turquoise Trail, del Rey. There are also seven Its centerpiece is the 200-ft-
9am–9pm daily; early Sep–late May: to around 300 people. Their festi- Hwy 14 offers a scenic, alternative ceremo nial kivas (see p165). (61-m-) tall Inscription Rock,
9am–8pm Wed–Mon, 5–8pm Tue. val on San Antonio’s Day in June 52-mile (84-km) route between Acoma can be visited only on which is covered with more
Closed 2 weeks spring & fall for main- features tribal dancing (see p37). Albuquer que and Santa Fe. a guided tour, where expert than 300 petrogly phs and
tenance. & 7 ∑ sandiapeak.com
Passing through the spectacular guides explain its rich history. pictographs from early pueblo
The Sandia Peak Tramway is a Environs scenery of the Sandia Mountains people, as well as some 2,000
breathtaking ride from the foot- Around 16 miles (25 km) and Cibola National Forest, it inscriptions left by Spanish and
hills at the northeastern edge of northwest of Bernalillo, Zia takes in the old mining towns 6 Grants Anglo travelers. For centuries,
Albuquerque to Sandia Peak at Pueblo is famous for its redware of Golden, Madrid, and Cerrillos. * 9,200. n 100 N. Iron Avenue. people were drawn to this
10,378 ft (3,163 m). The tram was pottery. Visitors are welcome to Golden is the first stop in a (505) 287-4802.  ∑ grants.org remote spot by a pool of fresh
constructed in the mid-1960s, buy the pottery and watercolors northward direction. It is a small water, formed by runoff and
and carries tourists from the made in this small community. ghost town with ruined buildings, An old mining cottage in Madrid, midway Between the 1950s and the snowmelt, beneath the bluff.
outskirts to the summit’s viewing and an atmospheric adobe on the Turquoise Trail 1980s, Grants was famous as Here they carved their initials
platform. The 15-minute ride T Coronado Historic Site mission church, which dates back a center for uranium mining. into the rock.
passes through low desert to 485 Kuaua Rd. Tel (505) 867-5351. to 1830. Madrid was a busy coal- Yellow rocks of the mineral Among the signatures is
ponderosa pine forests and Open 8:30am–5pm Wed–Mon. Closed mining town in the early 20th 5 Acoma Pueblo were found by Navajo that of the Spanish colonizer
rugged mountains. The summit Jan 1, Easter, Thanksgiving, Dec 25. & century. Its ramshackle houses Rte 23, off I-40. Open year round. farmer Paddy Martinez Don Juan de Oñate (see p43),
offers outstanding panor amic 7 ∑ nmhistoricsites.org/coronado are now full of artists, Closed some pueblo festivals. & on top of Haystack who, in 1605, wrote
views of Albuquerque and 7 partial. 8 obligatory. n Sky City Mountain, 10 miles “pasó por aquí,”
the surrounding landscape. Cultural Center (505) 552-7870; (800) (16 km) from town meaning “passed by
747-0181. Open for hourly tours in 1951. The industry here.” An easy half-
8:30am–3:30pm daily. Closed Jun 24 has now declined, but mile (1-km) trail leads
3 Bernalillo & 29, Jul 9–14 & 25, 1st or 2nd visitors can relive its past the pool and the
week end Oct, 1st Sat Dec, for cultural heyday at the New Handcrafted pot inscrip tions on the rock.
* 8,500. n 264 Camino del
Pueblo (505) 867-8687.  events and in adverse weather. Mexico Mining Museum from Zuni
∑ sandovalcounty.org ∑ acomaskycity.org – tours go underground Environs
to see a re-created mine. The people of the Zuni
The farming community of The incredible beauty of Acoma Grants is well placed along Pueblo, 32 miles (51 km) west
Bernalillo was settled by Spanish Pueblo’s setting on the top of a Hwy 40/Route 66 for exploring of El Morro, are descendants
colonists in 1698. Here, against 357-ft- (107-m-) high mesa, has the sights in the area, such as of the early mesa dwellers of
a striking backdrop on the earned it the sobriquet “Sky City.” the badlands of El Malpais the region. Today, Zuni artists
banks of the Rio Grande, is the Looking out over a stunning National Monument. are known for their fine
Coronado Historic Site, which panorama of distant mountains, pottery and shell mosaic
encompas ses the partially mesas, and plains, it afforded the E New Mexico Mining Museum jewelry. Murals depicting
restored ruins of the Kuaua Puebloan people natural defense 100 N. Iron St. Tel (505) 287-4802. Zuni history can be seen in
pueblo. Spanish explorer against enem ies and helped Open 9am–4pm Mon–Sat. Closed the pueblo’s 17th-century
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado The interior of the Trading Post store at Cerrillos, on the Turquoise Trail delay submission to Spanish rule. public hols. & 7 mission church.
For hotels and restaurants see pp242–3 and pp260–61

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