In Roswell prefer The Cattle men’s Cluub and things not so Tourists trappy. Love the Taos, Red River Angel Fire beauty. Red River is my favorite ass I like the small town by the creek or River feel. You are doing a great job ! Showing so much more than the national pats but there is even more. Please return, film, explore and share on you tube. ,
Visited the land of enchantment many times, many road trips, top of the list carlsbad caverns ❤, valley of fire, Guadeloupe mountains, cloudcroft, mayhill, even north east corner amazed me, dinosaur 🦕 prints, just beautiful 😍
New Mexico is underrated. So much to see. The Jemez Mountains are beautiful and peaceful. I was there many years ago and it was a spiritual experience.
I am familiarwith many of these sites but the one I'm most familiar with cannot be reached by road ( at least when I was there ). I worked for the U S Forest Service during summer vacations from college in the mid sixties. during the summer of 1966 I had the great good fortune to work on the trail crew in the Santa Fe National Forest wilderness area. No vehicles were allowed in and all our work was performed with hand tools. At first it wasa little tough on an 18 year old having to stay there for ten days straight sleeping in a tent. But it turned out to be the best job I ever had.I saw sights I can't forget and wish I was able to make that trip again.
I'm a NM resident. Love this state. During covid did a lot of loops around state. Route 66 and up thru Las Vegas (NM), Farmington and around there.Roswell, Carlsbad, etc.I loved your video, reminds me of some of my own trips. Your photography, narration, info, etc. was "on point".
I was asked to go to New Mexico during the Los Alamos fires so I could set up a temp insurance claims office for the company I provided WAN support for from '00 to '05, California Casualty, in Santa Fe. I've worked for clients all over New Mexico and love the people there, even going there to fly with some friends in '08, my last visit there. I live in the lower Arizona desert and one day may move to find a retirement rental in the high NM desert, where y'all have four seasons, which include snow.
Hi i wanted to ask how its crime and quality of life im about to be station there in May close to alamogordo i just wanted to know how i was and the best places to see or avoid.
I'm planning a trip out west in 2025, traveling from Michigan. Utah is of course on the list, but new mexico, new Mexico has my heart as much as Montana and northern California and Oregon. Such beauty. I love your informational videos. I watch them at work and it makes time just fly by, plus helping me know how to plan my trip. Thank you for all your hard work.
Thanks for recognizing all the hard work. Sounds like you have a nice job. now i have a Question- i’m thinking about spending several weeks on a “Parks of Lake Superior” guide. It’s been decades since ive been up there. Do you think there’s much interest?
@@TheWestisBig absolutely! There's so much in the upper peninsula and I've seen quite a few channels doing bits and pieces on the area. I think an indepth and detailed video would be perfect. Areas like pictured rocks, and all the beautiful falls up north. There's the iron mine you can explore and the cute little jam pot shop. I think it would be wonderful to see videos done on the area. And there is social media groups dedicated specifically to the upper peninsula, they would go head over heals watching it I imagine.
I’ve been researching the area. A friend has a cabin in the area but still need to find some local biz to help defer costs. We remember it being an interesting area- even as a kid.
27:07 it’s so nice of them to put that sign up for the snakes. I don’t know rattlesnakes to be reckless, but it is nice that they reminded them to take care.
Probably the most comprehensive travel guide I have ever come across. So much information and some great hints. Some good photos with phot hints and tips. Subscribed. Will look at the other relevant videos for our trip to the US south west next year.
Glad it was helpful! check out my Utah grand circle mighty 5 guide- it’s better- the one with 2.5Million views. the one with 500k ish has an audio issue
Nicely done, thank you. I like learning the scientific elements, geology, volcanology, etc. A wonderful way to get an idea to discover these places on my own.
Welcome! and thanks for watching and subscribing Yes i’m a bit of a geology buff. If you don’t know of Nick Zentner’s channel he’s a geo professor. btw- my new- ish Big Bend videos have some interesting Geo sites and explanations- like an ancient inverted river- and several sea rise and falls
Thank you for this excellent video, I love the educational overlay onto the scenery, its why I studied geology with a minor in archaeology. You have inspired me to visit NM on my next adventure.
Discovered and subscribed to your channel, it took me a couple of sittings to watch all of this video but completely worth it. Love that you include so much information for photographers such as myself. My wife and I have lived in New Mexico for a year and are still finding our way around, your channel will assist with our wandering.
Love your channel! I accidentally ran across it, and feel like your channel is a national treasure in itself. You're a great travel guide, and I love the descriptions and education you give about earth science and history. Thank you for what you do. I will be back... with my grandson. 😀
Wonderful video. I have visited some of these places, though not all, while working for my tourism clients in NM in the 90's and early 00's as a systems implementation lead. Many were hotels where these sites were near. My favorite place to see was Carlsbad Caverns, because my client gave me the day off to go there, so I walked in and took the elevator up, like a guide also told me. The caverns were my favorite of many to visit, though the Oregon Caves and caverns near Roanoke VA were also fun to visit. You are a good narrator. I only saw the caverns just once, in '99, just a month or so before my daughter was born, making the timing of the trip even better to make it a visit always to be remembered.
@@TheWestisBig I once picked up a hitchhiker on I-40 who turned out to be a Navajo chief. I knew he was innocently needing a ride, since I've only picked up hitchikers twice in 40 years of driving, both on Interstates, both fine young adults, and both fun to speak with who accepted a long ride. The man in Navajo country gave me wonderful history lessons as we drove from Arizona to his stop in New Mexico, where family was picking him up. I took a course dedicated to California history in my Freshman college year and it was rich in Native Californian history and where the different tribes lived and their subcultures while living there. Videos like yours our like soothing colors to our hitchhiking eyes, when we wish to travel and enjoy the luxury the Internet provides to see places we could not easily learn about, some of us like me, as tweens in the 60's and teens in the 70's other than by reading books that did not have the visual cues that videos like yours, quite professionally done, have.
The Keres people lived at Bandolier on the boarder of the Tewa people. The ruins were called Tuyonye, (too-YON-ye) meaning "council fires" due to meetings between Keres (CARE-ease) and Trwa elders.
I have a paid burial in NM and CA. Feel free to think I'm dead in either. I do visit to discover caves and explore where our species never trod. One of those locations has been explored to a length of more than 40 miles. Certified by Grade- 6 Surveying. "Don't step up... if you can't keep up..." THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK
Excellent presentation! We just completed a one week tour of Valley of Fires, Carlsbad and White Sands. Your presentation made me want to do it again! We’ve visited many of the other sites that you cover, and I now have a short list of those we’ve missed. You have a new subscriber.
I'm a local, three rivers has always been out of the way. Even its on the way. People seem to pass by. Not sure you're going to spoil anything. Great video, thanks for showing it off. It kind of needs it.
This is one of the finest tour videos I've seen for NM; however, it's not that difficult to ask the locals for the pronunciations of the places you're visiting. "Mal pie Ese" and "Hay muss" are common pronunciations all around the state, and anyone would be happy to help. Otherwise, you've got my vote - 110 percent! Many thanks.
Wow it is 2:40 in the AM and I want to see if you show the Unser airfield wherePeople fly v model aircraft and it is fun to each the sis to ten feet aircraft when flying. Also hang gliding, hot air bal park and more vineyards sites.! Many Native American
Thanks for the comment!! i’ve been making videos for corporate clients for many years- some of which you’ve heard of. These are the videos i wish i was paid to make. thanks again for recognizing the work and commenting.
Thank you for your detailed description of the National parks. There is so much more to New Mexico I hope yo post more videos of the state. If you need ideas, I would be glad to provide some or contact the New Mexico tpurism office, Albuquerque Convention and Visitos bureau , most cities offer info for visitors.
Love all of New Mexico. Best season is fall as the colors in the mountains and fall foliage is smazing. There are petroglyphs throughout New Mexico. Please do not draw or carve the rocks yourself. Love everywhere in New MEXICO BUT HOPE YOU VISIT THE Carlsbad Caverns, the great array, the All Indian Pueblo Center, The Bradberry Science Mseum in Los Alamos, Santa Fe Opera and the flea market next door on weekends, Bandeler National Monunent, Shidoni Foundary where artist create Statues, Nambe where beautiful Nambeware is made oh my I have not shared all I want to but please explore and enjoy. Many winearies are located throughout New Mexico and some offer tours and all have lovely tasting areas.. Suggest taking picnic lunches as many great ares have tables and benches but no food or drinks. Love all the natural places to explore, even in the cities. Please do not forget the new Virgin spaceport.
thanks!! my vids are about the place not me. it makes it much more time consuming to shoot and edit. which is why others appear on camera to tell the story.
First of awesome job. And then we are heading to NM from Seattle in mid May. I am searching for our trip for two weeks duration. This video was very big help. We travel many times to Utah but it would be first time passing it. We have small self contained trailer and I think we will follow the route you highlighted in this video with some exceptions. Not really in alien stuff 😂. Thanks again
Thanks for the comment! I have family in Seattle- well Shoreline. I have a Q for you- do you know anything about SUV roof top tents? I want to get one but I've never seen one in person. Since you're driving be sure to check out Shiprock and Biti bad lands near farmington NM- My channel has videos on these Mut see areas. bist- is BLM so boondocking is possible.
@@TheWestisBig thanks for responding. By the way we are living very close to shoreline area. And I don’t have first hand experience with roof tent because we have towable trailer. But I heard many conflicting experiences from people. It’s definitely young people game. Lots of set up involved and climbing stairs. It adds weight and height to car and I don’t think it’s suitable for small suvs. Again not my my direct experience.
There are small trailer under 2000 lbs but this is another story. Towing is not fun all the time. And you can’t go everywhere with it. We have a 4Runner and our trailer is around 3000 lbs. only 17 f with wet bath. I am sure roof top tent is more comfortable than back of suv but you will have to deal with climate control everything has challenges that’s why we love what we do. 😂
I seen some of the small trailers- not sure I'd like them. My '24 Tucson Hybrid might have trouble going up mts. Wanted A Palisade but non were available when my well maintained 2014 Forester died with just 105k miles- I;ll never buy another Subaru.
Have a little camping trip laid out and that's to go to Carlsbad caverns same place I went to when I was a kid during the 70s but now I get to revisit it as an adult and on my list is Roswell and a couple of spots were they did nuclear looking forward to this
I'm looking forward to watching this video as I spent much of my younger years in southern New Mexico. It looks to be a well made and informative film. Forgive me but I must correct your pronunciation of a Tularosa. It's Too-lah-row-sah, as in tulips and roses. ❤
@@TheWestisBig I finished watching. That was very good. I like the pace you keep going through all that info. When I was a child traveling from texas to Socorro my daddy always stopped at the side of the road to pick up lava rocks. It wasn't called valley of fires. Back then we called it the lava beds. (1950's) Btw: mogollon= mug-ee-yon
Wow/ very well done/ I am in oregon (willamette valley) i would love to do that trip in my Vw vanogan . Suggestions as to were I should start & what direction to go ? thx David
I suggest you watch or at least skim through my Utah video guide as its on the way. There are places you should stop on the way. Also look through my Road less traveled videos which feature some interesting Blm areas you probably never heard of.
Having dealt in depth with people all over the US on the phone, PA was one of my favorite states including even Philly. CT was by far the rudest. NJ was usually good peeps too. Sometimes NY’ers were douchey but sometimes amazing. But literally CT was unanimously agreed upon by our team to be the rudest to deal with in the entire US. MN and WI were always awesome and any of the SE states too.
I grew up in Las Cruces (45miles away from WS) and we had a 6th grade field trip in white sands. There we about 200 kids in the group. I had been here before and never seen any wildlife but it’s amazing how much a group of 200 kids can find. They found a horny toad lizard, and several regular lizards, insects, scorpions, and a rattle snake. The cool thing about all these animals was that they were all pure WHITE. Most of these animals are brown to black, never white.
Yeah it's pretty sad Nat'l Parks just being devastated by hoards of people, I mean I understand wanting to see them, but we are a overpopulating, dirty species. JMO, been to White Sands & it was amazing & actually not hardly any people, it was in October, pretty warm still, but the sand was nice & cool to the touch, thanks for sharing this awesome video
You completely bungled it - you missed the absolute best natural location in New Mexico: Bisti / De-Na-Zin Wilderness Area which has the most unbelievable geological forms in the US - probably in the world!
Just for your info. It's pronounced Mugiyone. The L is silent. These people came from the Gila Forest area, and some eventually wandered north to the Pueblos along the Rio Grande, and some to the Salinas Missions National Monument near Mountainaire, NM. Great pictures, especially White Sands.
@@TheWestisBig I got it wrong too. There are two gg's instead of the one. Muggi-yone. If you check out Moggolone Rim in Arizona, is pronounced the same. A beautiful part of north central Arizona, mostly high pine forest.
