Hidden New Mexico

If you want temperatures, driving distances, and accommodation prices get the free books from AAA. If you want great information about out of the way, interesting places you'll probably miss otherwise, buy this book. I have all the "Hidden" books and always use them when planning a trip. I find them especially useful when I want to go an alternate route to places I've traveled before. If you want to plan a trip using the "Blue Highways" use this book-if you want to get there fast and miss a lot of interesting things, fly...then buy the book anyway to see what you've missed.

After 25-30 Trips over the last 40 years, found a few new things in this book!

We live in New Mexico, and every holiday or free weekend we use this guide to lead us to new exciting and beautiful places. This book is the perfect travel companion for anyone interested in smaller, off the beaten path places. This book led us to discover Las Vegas, NM, a (yet) not so touristy place unlike Taos or Sante Fe. Thanks to this guide, we enjoyed the free road side Hot Springs located in a pristine alpine valley, and delicious restaurants that put the more known places to shame. It has small eateries and interesting museums, parks like the little known Three Rivers Petroglyph National Monument with thousands of drawings, on the way from Socorro to Alamogordo. Yet again, this is a place not mentioned in other tourist maps or books. I would recommend for anyone really interested in traveling through New Mexico to also have DeLorme Topographic Map of New Mexico with them for references and the smaller roads. The general RandMcNally or AAA maps just don't cut it. Those topo maps are only about 16 dollars and will work great with the Hidden New Mexico book or any travelguide. Check out Chaco Canyon National Monument as well, and stay in El Rancho Hotel in Gallup, you will not believe your eyes! That was also a tip from the Hidden New Mexico book. Enjoy the most beautiful state in the nation (I am biased, I know)!