Hidden New Mexico: Including Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos, and the Enchanted Circle [Paperback]

Richard Harris (Author)

Book Description

Series: Hidden Travel | Publication Date: April 10, 2005

Combining unique travel choices, outdoor adventures, and little-known locales into guides where vacations meet adventures, each title in the Hidden series also offers readers the comfort of detailed maps, Internet information for each listing, author picks, suggested itineraries, and walking and driving tours. In Hidden New Mexico, a local author guides readers to secret spots throughout his home state. He recommends over 60 restaurants serving Mexican, New Mexican, and Nouveau Southwestern cuisine, plus local cooking classes to learn hot and spicy favorites. Author Richard Harris lives in Santa Fe, NM. Includes 23 maps.

Editorial Reviews

Review

The Hidden guidebook series hot-peppers its pages with little arrows that point to a multitude of off-the-tourist-track sites. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 296 pages
• Publisher: Ulysses Press; 5th edition (April 10, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569754896
• ISBN-13: 978-1569754894
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,763,125 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great travel book on New Mexico, March 20, 2001

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K. van der Gaarden (Albuquerque, NM United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hidden New Mexico (2nd ed) (Paperback)

We live in New Mexico, and every holiday or free weekend we use this guide to lead us to new exciting and beautiful places. This book is the perfect travel companion for anyone interested in smaller, off the beaten path places. This book led us to discover Las Vegas, NM, a (yet) not so touristy place unlike Taos or Sante Fe. Thanks to this guide, we enjoyed the free road side Hot Springs located in a pristine alpine valley, and delicious restaurants that put the more known places to shame. It has small eateries and interesting museums, parks like the little known Three Rivers Petroglyph National Monument with thousands of drawings, on the way from Socorro to Alamogordo. Yet again, this is a place not mentioned in other tourist maps or books. I would recommend for anyone really interested in traveling through New Mexico to also have DeLorme Topographic Map of New Mexico with them for references and the smaller roads. The general RandMcNally or AAA maps just don't cut it. Those topo maps are only about 16 dollars and will work great with the Hidden New Mexico book or any travelguide. Check out Chaco Canyon National Monument as well, and stay in El Rancho Hotel in Gallup, you will not believe your eyes! That was also a tip from the Hidden New Mexico book. Enjoy the most beautiful state in the nation (I am biased, I know)!

25 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't shed much light, December 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Hidden New Mexico (2nd ed) (Paperback)

This book gives virtually no driving directions or driving times - an email query to the publisher was not acknowledged. It claims that the only way to fly in is to Albuquerque - in fact, United flies to Santa Fe, as I discovered while boarding my plane to Albuquerque - giving me an extra hour's drive coming and going. The maps are inadequate at best - few of the attractions/lodgings mentioned are shown. Hotel listings are incomplete, and biased toward the high end. Admission fees to attractions - often as high as $10/person - are not given. Many sights are mentioned (Anasazi cliff dwellings, Mesa Verde) without a description, but are not in the index. No chart of annual temperatures was given - that I could see - I found out the hard way that it gets very, very cold in the winter. In short, using this book to plan and travel was an extremely frustrating experience.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Frommers Took the Best Ideas, June 8, 2005

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T. Hartman (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hidden New Mexico: Including Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos and the Enchanted Circle (Paperback)

This is probably a good book, but if you buy the Frommers Guide to Santa Fe, Taos, and Albuquerque you get the same "hidden" details and more accurate reviews. Brought this book on my vacation and maybe got two bits of interesting info from it once after I got there.