Recent Travel Articles About Taos
Taos, NM: The Most Pet-Friendly Destination in the Southwest
The Town of Taos is not only a great destination for people looking to rejuvenate and reconnect with what’s important to them, but it is a great destination to bring what’s important with them - especially if that includes a beloved pet. Taos boasts at least 20 lodging facilities and a number of restaurants with outdoor patios that are Fido-friendly.
Taos, NM June 18, 2010 -- The Town of Taos is not only a great destination for people looking to rejuvenate and reconnect with what’s important to them, but it is a great destination to bring what’s important to them especially if that includes a beloved pet. Taos boasts more than a dozen lodging facilities and a number of restaurants with outdoor patios that are Fido-friendly.
“Travelers come to Taos to relax, but worrying about leaving their beloved dog behind can be stressful, especially since many of us consider our pets as part of the family,” said San Geronimo Lodge owner, Charles Montgomery, whose Taos bed and breakfast (B&B) permits dogs. “We love dogs, as we have two of our own, and understand the importance of sharing a great experience like Taos with a canine companion.”
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3rd Annual Taos Art Glass Invitational and Walking on Glass Tour, July 9 through Aug. 15, to Feature Best in Glass Art
The 3rd annual "2010 Taos Art Glass Invitational and Walking on Glass Tour" - a premier glass festival representing the best in contemporary art glass across the country - will take place this year in Taos from July 9 through August 15, 2010.
The juried exhibitions feature artwork not only from Taos artists and regional talent, but from more than 50 artists from as far away as Hungary and Israel. Collectively, the 200 plus pieces of individual art glass exhibited at nine Taos galleries exemplify the most innovative contemporary art glass today.
Throughout the festival, participating Taos galleries will display the artwork of invited and exhibiting artists and will host artist receptions, demonstrations and free lectures to introduce visitors to the artists. Taos Institute for Glass Arts (TIGA) will offer with a series of lectures, demonstrations and glass experiences, as well as comprehensive workshops in advanced glass techniques by invited artists such as Armelle LeRoux and Anna Boothe.
Amon Carter Museum Exhibits Ansel Adams Photographs
Taos, NM
Ansel Adams (19021984), Santa Elena Canyon, Big Bend National Park, Texas, 1947. Gelatin silver print, 1975 ©2010 The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.
FORT WORTH, TX.- Works by one of the worlds most widely recognized and celebrated photographers will go on view this spring at the Amon Carter Museum. Ansel Adams: Eloquent Light features 40 photographs by the artist and runs from May 29 through November 7, 2010.
Ansel Adams was the last major artist to subscribe to the romantic tradition of American landscape, an artistic lineage that included Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole, William Henry Jackson and Carleton Watkins, says John Rohrbach, senior curator of photographs. This exhibition, comprised of prints from the museums holdings and a private collection, spans 50 years of Adams spectacular career and gives museum visitors insight into his vision of inspiring beauty.
Taos shuttle celebrates first year
TAOS, N.M. (AP) - The Taos Express shuttle, which offers passenger service between Taos and Santa Fe, will mark its first year in service with free rides for passengers in June.
Since its inception last June 4, officials say the shuttle has transported almost 1,500 passengers and has expanded service to include weekends, a new shuttle stop and service that corresponds to commuter airline schedules in Santa Fe.
Taos Mayor Darren Cordova says officials wanted to offer residents and visitors "a direct, easy and relatively low-cost manner" of getting to and from Taos.
Transportation superintendent Delilah Garcia says she hopes the free service in June will encourage passengers who haven't tried it yet.
Adult fares are $5 one way or $10 round trip. Children 10 years and under ride free with an adult. Reservations are required.
Gov't Mule the Headliner @ Taos Mountain Music Festival
Taos Ski Valley, NM May 18, 2010 -- The Taos Ski Valley is kicking off its Second Annual Taos Mountain Music Festival Labor Day weekend with Gov’t Mule and Warren Haines. Big riffs, massive grooves, and expansive improvisations are the hallmarks of Gov't Mule's legendary live shows.
"Last year's Taos Mountain Music Festival was a fantastic event!" says Taos Ski Valley's Event Director Alejandro Blake. "This year we are stepping it up a level, and people are going to be blown away by the talented lineup slated to play the 2010 festival.”
"This is a family friendly festival, and this year we are going above and beyond to give visitors a full weekend of fun in Taos Ski Valley" adds Alyson Hyder, Executive Director of the Taos Ski Valley Chamber of Commerce.
This outdoor festival in Taos Ski Valley is situated on four acres with the beautiful backdrop of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and surrounded by national forest. The gates open at 10am and festival attendees are urged to arrive early and claim your spot for the day to enjoy a full day of music and entertainment. Once settled, festival-goers can enjoy "Strawberry Fair" the festival's marketplace. They can check out circus entertainers, shop for crafts from local artisans and sample food from top area vendors and restaurants. For just $5, kids can enter the "Kidzone" and go wild in the jumpy castle, get their faces painted, play games, even learn to play the drums. This Labor Day weekend Taos Ski Valley will host activities for all to enjoy all weekend long including "Movies in the Mountains", guided hikes to Wheeler Peak (the highest Peak in New Mexico) and live bands in bars surrounding the festival grounds.
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Art lovers drawn to O’Keeffe country
GHOST RANCH, N.M. - Sandstone cliffs rise from the desert floor in layers of orange, pink and yellow, limited only by the expansive blue sky that pushes down on the sprawling northern New Mexico ranch from above. Save for a few birds chirping and a breeze whistling through cedar trees, it's quiet here.
This is Georgia O'Keeffe Country — remote, solitary and breathtaking.
It was O'Keeffe, the American modernist painter, who found a way to transport the light, colors and shapes of the cliffs and clay hills around Ghost Ranch and nearby Abiquiu to canvas for the rest of the world to see.
Thousands of people flock to Santa Fe every year to visit the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, where an exhibition of her work called "Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction" opens May 28. But those who want to see the actual landscapes that inspired O'Keeffe's work can make the pilgrimage here, to Ghost Ranch.
Ghost Ranch is in the heart of O'Keeffe Country, up the Chama River Valley, passing Espanola and several small communities along a sleepy two-lane highway. The late artist called it "the best place in the world."
"We get a lot of people who are really intrigued by her. They want to understand what really motivated her so they come here to see all of this," said Ghost Ranch tour guide Karen Butts.
O'Keeffe spent hours — sometimes days — exploring this land by foot and automobile, looking for her next subject: red and purple hills, white and yellow cliffs, and the cedars that dot many of her landscapes. Even the ladder O'Keeffe used to climb to her roof for a better vantage point is still propped against her adobe home.
The Ghost Ranch landscape tours are offered four days a week; visitors can also stay at the ranch overnight. As Butts led a group of visitors on a recent day, she stopped to point out certain vistas, like Cerro Pedernal, a blue silhouetted hill on the southern horizon that O'Keeffe painted and sketched dozens of times.
"She loved this part of the ranch. She loved the views here," Butts told the group.
Stuart Wilde is glad there’s a word to describe what he’s been doing for 20 years: Ecotourism.
The owner of Wild Earth Llama Adventures in Taos was one of many individuals in Santa Fe last week speaking about the state’s new ecotourism program.The effort is bringing together environmentalists, hunters, fishing enthusiasts and ranchers to foster economic development and to protect resources, he said.
“It’s a whole new way of doing business,” Wilde added.
Wilde’s business is in Taos, the first of two pilot sites for the program. The other is the Gila Wilderness near Silver City in the southwestern quadrant of the state, although other communities soon will follow, said Sandy Cunningham, co-owner of EcoNewMexico LLC, which has the state contract to administer the ecotourism program for the Tourism Department.
Taos will be the center of an effort focusing on the northern sector of the state, she explained. That will eventually include the Chama area and the eight northern pueblos.
Wilde said taking visitors into the wilderness with llama pack animals is a platform for the conservation work he loves — and that’s what the ecotourism program is all about, said Cunningham, adding that it’s also about economic development for rural areas.
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Sole Mates: Cowboy boots as western icons
SUE MAJOR HOLMES, Associated Press Writer Published: 12:24 p.m., Wednesday, May 12, 2010
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Joseph Traugott stretches out his Tony Lama boots and peers around a New Mexico Museum of Art gallery filled with plastic-wrapped boots, paintings and photographs propped against walls and the sounds of an old-time cowboy singer crooning "Have I told you lately that I love you."
He's helping put the finishing touches on the new exhibit "Sole Mates: Cowboy Boots and Art," which opens Saturday. It's taken about three years for Traugott to pull the pieces together.
"It's such a broad topic and it just raises so many interesting ideas about who we are as modern people and why is it that the West is such an icon of America," said Traugott, the museum's curator of 20th century art.
Cowboy boots are one of America's most recognizable icons, said Jim Arndt of Santa Fe, who's made a career of photographing cowboy boots. He's collaborated on five boot books, published a cowboy boot calendar for 15 years and collected about 100 vintage pair.
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