Caption as published: People cross East San Francisco Street near the Cathedral  Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in December. New Mexico has gotten heavy snows this winter, an unusual but not unheard of occurrence.

Amiran White
The New Mexican
Raw caption: People make their way across snow cover West San Francisco by the St. Frances Cathedral in Santa Fe, N.M. Dec. 20, 2006 morning. 
Amiran White/ The New Mexican
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Valles Caldera National Perserve in the Jemez Mountains has partially opened trails to cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. Coyote Call Trail, on the southern rim of the caldera, is the only trail open at this time due to limited snow.
Raw caption: Photo Daily/Outdoors
Photo by Jamie Humphrey/For The New Mexican

Valles Caldera National Perserve in the Jemez Mountains has partially opened  trails to cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. Coyote Trail, located on the southern rim of the caldera is the only trail open at the time due to lack of snow fall.
The Turquoise Trail is more than a scenic drive between Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Here, a sampling of the Turquoise Trail’s treasures. Cerrillos. The Casa Grande Trading Post, Cerrillos Turquoise Mining Museum & Petting Zoo opened in 1979. As the name suggests, Casa Grande has several personas. The five-room trading post and museum attach to a 23-room home, built with 65,000 adobe bricks that owners Todd and Patricia Brown made themselves. The trading post fireplace is built with rock bearing veins of Cerrillos turquoise. Remnants of the miner’s lives are on display at The Old Coal Mine Museum and The Mine Shaft Tavern, which occupy the coal company’s headquarters. Visitors can climb into a 1900 Richmond Steam Engine for a close up view of the boiler. Artifacts include antique trucks and fire equipment. A dentist
chair and one of the earliest x-ray machines suggest the modernity of the company hospital and heavy pickaxes attest to the strength of the miners. The museum and tavern served as sets for Beer for My Horses and Paul. Set pieces from the Wild Hogs chile festival scene are a recent addition to the museum. Outdoor activities at the south end of the trail include 30 miles of trails on Sandia Peak and golf at Paa-Ko Ridge Golf Club. Tinkertown Museum one of the 10 Wackiest Places in the United States and Fox News listed it among America’s Best Little-Known Museums.
Clyde Mueller/The New Mexican
The Turquoise Trail is more than a scenic drive between Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Here, a sampling of the Turquoise Trail’s treasures. Cerrillos. The Casa Grande Trading Post, Cerrillos Turquoise Mining Museum & Petting Zoo opened in 1979. As the name suggests, Casa Grande has several personas. The five-room trading post and museum attach to a 23-room home, built with 65,000 adobe bricks that owners Todd and Patricia Brown made themselves. The trading post fireplace is built with rock bearing veins of Cerrillos turquoise. Remnants of the miner’s lives are on display at The Old Coal Mine Museum and The Mine Shaft Tavern, which occupy the coal company’s headquarters. Visitors can climb into a 1900 Richmond Steam Engine for a close up view of the boiler. Artifacts include antique trucks and fire equipment. A dentist
chair and one of the earliest x-ray machines suggest the modernity of the company hospital and heavy pickaxes attest to the strength of the miners. The museum and tavern served as sets for Beer for My Horses and Paul. Set pieces from the Wild Hogs chile festival scene are a recent addition to the museum. Outdoor activities at the south end of the trail include 30 miles of trails on Sandia Peak and golf at Paa-Ko Ridge Golf Club. Tinkertown Museum one of the 10 Wackiest Places in the United States and Fox News listed it among America’s Best Little-Known Museums.
Clyde Mueller/The New Mexican
The Turquoise Trail is more than a scenic drive between Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Here, a sampling of the Turquoise Trail’s treasures. Cerrillos. The Casa Grande Trading Post, Cerrillos Turquoise Mining Museum & Petting Zoo opened in 1979. As the name suggests, Casa Grande has several personas. The five-room trading post and museum attach to a 23-room home, built with 65,000 adobe bricks that owners Todd and Patricia Brown made themselves. The trading post fireplace is built with rock bearing veins of Cerrillos turquoise. Remnants of the miner’s lives are on display at The Old Coal Mine Museum and The Mine Shaft Tavern, which occupy the coal company’s headquarters. Visitors can climb into a 1900 Richmond Steam Engine for a close up view of the boiler. Artifacts include antique trucks and fire equipment. A dentist
chair and one of the earliest x-ray machines suggest the modernity of the company hospital and heavy pickaxes attest to the strength of the miners. The museum and tavern served as sets for Beer for My Horses and Paul. Set pieces from the Wild Hogs chile festival scene are a recent addition to the museum. Outdoor activities at the south end of the trail include 30 miles of trails on Sandia Peak and golf at Paa-Ko Ridge Golf Club. Tinkertown Museum one of the 10 Wackiest Places in the United States and Fox News listed it among America’s Best Little-Known Museums.
Clyde Mueller/The New Mexican
The Turquoise Trail is more than a scenic drive between Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Here, a sampling of the Turquoise Trail’s treasures. Cerrillos. The Casa Grande Trading Post, Cerrillos Turquoise Mining Museum & Petting Zoo opened in 1979. As the name suggests, Casa Grande has several personas. The five-room trading post and museum attach to a 23-room home, built with 65,000 adobe bricks that owners Todd and Patricia Brown made themselves. The trading post fireplace is built with rock bearing veins of Cerrillos turquoise. Remnants of the miner’s lives are on display at The Old Coal Mine Museum and The Mine Shaft Tavern, which occupy the coal company’s headquarters. Visitors can climb into a 1900 Richmond Steam Engine for a close up view of the boiler. Artifacts include antique trucks and fire equipment. A dentist
chair and one of the earliest x-ray machines suggest the modernity of the company hospital and heavy pickaxes attest to the strength of the miners. The museum and tavern served as sets for Beer for My Horses and Paul. Set pieces from the Wild Hogs chile festival scene are a recent addition to the museum. Outdoor activities at the south end of the trail include 30 miles of trails on Sandia Peak and golf at Paa-Ko Ridge Golf Club. Tinkertown Museum one of the 10 Wackiest Places in the United States and Fox News listed it among America’s Best Little-Known Museums.
Clyde Mueller/The New Mexican
The Turquoise Trail is more than a scenic drive between Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Here, a sampling of the Turquoise Trail’s treasures. Cerrillos. The Casa Grande Trading Post, Cerrillos Turquoise Mining Museum & Petting Zoo opened in 1979. As the name suggests, Casa Grande has several personas. The five-room trading post and museum attach to a 23-room home, built with 65,000 adobe bricks that owners Todd and Patricia Brown made themselves. The trading post fireplace is built with rock bearing veins of Cerrillos turquoise. Remnants of the miner’s lives are on display at The Old Coal Mine Museum and The Mine Shaft Tavern, which occupy the coal company’s headquarters. Visitors can climb into a 1900 Richmond Steam Engine for a close up view of the boiler. Artifacts include antique trucks and fire equipment. A dentist
chair and one of the earliest x-ray machines suggest the modernity of the company hospital and heavy pickaxes attest to the strength of the miners. The museum and tavern served as sets for Beer for My Horses and Paul. Set pieces from the Wild Hogs chile festival scene are a recent addition to the museum. Outdoor activities at the south end of the trail include 30 miles of trails on Sandia Peak and golf at Paa-Ko Ridge Golf Club. Tinkertown Museum one of the 10 Wackiest Places in the United States and Fox News listed it among America’s Best Little-Known Museums.
Clyde Mueller/The New Mexican
The Turquoise Trail is more than a scenic drive between Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Here, a sampling of the Turquoise Trail’s treasures. Cerrillos. The Casa Grande Trading Post, Cerrillos Turquoise Mining Museum & Petting Zoo opened in 1979. As the name suggests, Casa Grande has several personas. The five-room trading post and museum attach to a 23-room home, built with 65,000 adobe bricks that owners Todd and Patricia Brown made themselves. The trading post fireplace is built with rock bearing veins of Cerrillos turquoise. Remnants of the miner’s lives are on display at The Old Coal Mine Museum and The Mine Shaft Tavern, which occupy the coal company’s headquarters. Visitors can climb into a 1900 Richmond Steam Engine for a close up view of the boiler. Artifacts include antique trucks and fire equipment. A dentist
chair and one of the earliest x-ray machines suggest the modernity of the company hospital and heavy pickaxes attest to the strength of the miners. The museum and tavern served as sets for Beer for My Horses and Paul. Set pieces from the Wild Hogs chile festival scene are a recent addition to the museum. Outdoor activities at the south end of the trail include 30 miles of trails on Sandia Peak and golf at Paa-Ko Ridge Golf Club. Tinkertown Museum one of the 10 Wackiest Places in the United States and Fox News listed it among America’s Best Little-Known Museums.
Clyde Mueller/The New Mexican
The Turquoise Trail is more than a scenic drive between Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Here, a sampling of the Turquoise Trail’s treasures. Cerrillos. The Casa Grande Trading Post, Cerrillos Turquoise Mining Museum & Petting Zoo opened in 1979. As the name suggests, Casa Grande has several personas. The five-room trading post and museum attach to a 23-room home, built with 65,000 adobe bricks that owners Todd and Patricia Brown made themselves. The trading post fireplace is built with rock bearing veins of Cerrillos turquoise. Remnants of the miner’s lives are on display at The Old Coal Mine Museum and The Mine Shaft Tavern, which occupy the coal company’s headquarters. Visitors can climb into a 1900 Richmond Steam Engine for a close up view of the boiler. Artifacts include antique trucks and fire equipment. A dentist
chair and one of the earliest x-ray machines suggest the modernity of the company hospital and heavy pickaxes attest to the strength of the miners. The museum and tavern served as sets for Beer for My Horses and Paul. Set pieces from the Wild Hogs chile festival scene are a recent addition to the museum. Outdoor activities at the south end of the trail include 30 miles of trails on Sandia Peak and golf at Paa-Ko Ridge Golf Club. Tinkertown Museum one of the 10 Wackiest Places in the United States and Fox News listed it among America’s Best Little-Known Museums.
Clyde Mueller/The New Mexican
Caption as published: People cross East San Francisco Street near the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in December. New Mexico has gotten heavy snows this winter, an unusual but not unheard of occurrence.

Amiran White
The New Mexican
Raw caption: People make their way across snow cover West San Francisco by the St. Frances Cathedral in Santa Fe, N.M. Dec. 20, 2006 morning.
Amiran White/ The New Mexican
Caption as published: People cross East San Francisco Street near the Cathedral  Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in December. New Mexico has gotten heavy snows this winter, an unusual but not unheard of occurrence.

Amiran White
The New Mexican
Raw caption: People make their way across snow cover West San Francisco by the St. Frances Cathedral in Santa Fe, N.M. Dec. 20, 2006 morning. 
Amiran White/ The New Mexican
Caption as published: People cross East San Francisco Street near the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in December. New Mexico has gotten heavy snows this winter, an unusual but not unheard of occurrence.

Amiran White
The New Mexican
Raw caption: People make their way across snow cover West San Francisco by the St. Frances Cathedral in Santa Fe, N.M. Dec. 20, 2006 morning.
Amiran White/ The New Mexican
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