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Originally Posted by SamC.
I'm considering taking a few days off mid-Sept to visit New Mexico. (First time) Basic plan is fly into Albuquerque, grab a rental car and go. Preference is non-resort, out of the way, interesting places & things. Any recommendations would be much appreciated!
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Are you looking for historical places? Chaco Canyon, Acoma Pueblo, Santa Fe, Taos, all to the west and north. Acoma Sky City is a pueblo on top of a table mesa and is the oldest continually inhabited place in the western hemisphere, like more than 800 years.
White Sands, way south, and out of the way.
If you only have a few days, stay north or west. There is not much to see south and less to see east.
Take the drive to the top of Sandia Peak as you leave Albuquerque and then take the back road to Santa Fe, through Madrid, an old abandoned mining town taken over by hippies in the 60's and now a certified village, too small to be a town.
Valles Caldera National Preserve and Bandelier National Monument makes a nice day trip.
Rio Grande Gorge Bridge out of Taos is worth the trip. The drive from Santa Fe to Taos is a good one. If you go to the Gorge, go a bit farther past the bridge to the off-grid earth-ship community. They have tours of some of the homes but;lt into the sides of arroyos in the same fashion as the Anasazi cliff dwellers, southern exposure.
If you take the back road to Santa Fe, then take the high road to Taos, another back way of scenic wonders.
If you are looking for scenic beauty, you chose wisely.