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Millicent Rogers Museum

Millicent Rogers Museum

March 25, 2023 – April 16, 2023 The Millicent Rogers Museum is hosting the Pastel Society of New Mexico’s Signature Members Show, an immersion of color in the form of 65+ paintings by 29 artists. The exhibition and sale presents the work of Signature Members and distinguished pastelists in an…

A Bird for All Seasons

A Bird for All Seasons

Arriving by air, you may be surprised to know that New Mexico isn’t a dry barren desert!  All across our state and especially here in the north in Taos and Taos Ski Valley, we are a confluence of activity for wildlife. Birds especially love it here thanks to the…

Heritage Inspirations Tours

Heritage Inspirations Tours

“All we cared about as kids were grandma’s tortillas and red chile,” shares Angelisa Murray, owner/operator of Heritage Inspirations (est. 2014), of her formative summers with family in Colorado, making the drive from Arizona through Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Española, all the way up 285 past San…

Millicent Rogers Museum

Millicent Rogers Museum

February 4 2023 – March 5, 2023 Please join us! Preview Party tickets will go on sale Jan. 6, 2023. Preview Party, Fri., Feb. 3, 5:30 – 7:30pm. We will be offering several awards this year including the Board of Trustees Best of Show and the ever popular People’s Choice…

Harwood Museum

Harwood Museum

October 29, 2022 – May 21, 2023 William Herbert “Buck” Dunton: A Mainer Goes West celebrates the legacy of the Taos Society of Artists’ (TSA) resident “cowboy painter.” Founded in 1915, the TSA also included Oscar E. Berninghaus, E.L. Blumenschein, E. Irving Couse, Bert Geer Phillips, and Joseph Henry Sharp. Outfitted…

Harwood Museum

Harwood Museum

October 15, 2022 – May 7, 2023 Outriders: Legacy of the Black Cowboy is an exercise in unearthing images of the drovers, fiddlers, cowpunchers, cattle rustlers, cooks, singers, bulldogers, and bronc busters with African heritage in the American South. This exhibition will balance historical narratives and archival photographs depicting life…

Last Minute Holiday Gift Guide

Last Minute Holiday Gift Guide

Sometimes the holidays seem to rush in so quickly that we feel behind before we even get started. Well, don’t they always? At Taos Ski Valley we always expect the unexpected and the same goes for finding great gifts in a pinch! Procrastinators need look no further…

Le Ski Mastery’s Alain Veth

Le Ski Mastery’s Alain Veth

Not Your Ordinary Ski Shop Owner Alain Veth brings a world of experience and knowledge to his family-owned and run shop Le Ski Mastery in Taos Ski Valley. Veth is a veteran of the World Cup race circuit, a winner of hundreds of ski races…

Top Trails for Fall Color

Top Trails for Fall Color

Golden Yellow, Fiery Reds and Brilliant Blue Skies When nighttime lows dip into the 40s to 30s and the smell of piñon-smoke lingers over early mornings, the deciduous aspen stands begin to change color in the high elevations of Taos Ski Valley. First, a hint of yellow, then a fiery…

New Mexico vs. Colorado

New Mexico vs. Colorado

Look, we love our neighbors to the north. In comparing our states, both at the southern end of the Rocky Mountains, you’re right if you think of beautiful mountain views, but a bit of a similar climate is about all that we share. Taoseños believe that we have the perfect…