New Mexico

• Taos Pueblo has been inhabited for over a thousand years.

• Santa Fe was founded 10 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth.

• The first atomic bomb was exploded in New Mexico.

• About 75% of New Mexico’s roads are unpaved.

• New Mexico has more cows than people.


• It is illegal to gamble on camel and ostrich racing.

• It is illegal to give any spray paint, glue, paint, or permanent marker to a minor without a parent’s consent.

• If you intentionally trip a horse in the State of New Mexico, you could be facing a misdemeanor charge. If the horse is injured from the fall, that charge could be bumped up to a class 4 felony.

• This law prohibits the encouragement of participating in a duel with a deadly weapon.

• Las Cruces - it’s illegal to carry a lunchbox down mainstreet.

• Albuquerque - It is illegal for cab drivers to reach out and pull potential customers into their cabs.

• Las Cruces - You may not carry a lunchbox down Main Street.

• Deming - Riding a bicycle or hunting is expressly prohibited within the confines of the cemetery premises.

• Deming - human traffic in cemeteries must be limited to avenues, walkways and roads when practical.

• Deming - It’s a misdemeanor to spit on any public state property, building, or sidewalk. The act of spitting is considered offensive to public wellbeing, and could land you in jail.


• Roswell - International UFO Museum and Research Center - A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

• Farmington - Bisti Badlands - Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

• Bloomfield - Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness Study Area - The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

• El Prado - Earthships - These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

• Santa Fe - Ethyl the Whale - Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.