New Mexico's Turquoise Trail
Explore three significant and historical town on the Turquoise Trail of New Mexico – Cerrillos, Madrid and Golden. Each offers a glimpse into the heady days when mining for gold, silver and other precious metals, as well as hard and soft coal, made this region wealthy. Today, each is virtually forgotten, although not officially ghost towns. Madrid is being resurrected as an artists’ colony; Cerrillos is still a little sleepy village;; Golden, with only 10 families, is but a blip on the map.
I use to live in Cerrillos when I was kid! My brothers and I loved to explore!! They shot parts of the Movie John Carpenters Vampires while I lived there and it was cool to meet some of the cast and watch them film.
Great job!
What!?🙆… No Dollar General?
I think my great grandfather lived here, his name Hilario Branch.
I used to party at Mary’s Bar. RIP Mary.
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I remember my Dad telling me Madrid used to go all out decorating for Christmas. So much that Frontier pilots would sometimes veer a bit to fly over Madrid in December.
To the closest father that i ever had the closest to family i ever had David Thommson i miss you and you where right thank you for being there for my mother.
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Thank you for the historic tour and education of an area of New Mexico. There is beauty in the state.
As a New Mexican, I loved seeing all the places I have been. Was really surprised to see the Murphy/Dolan sign on the Wortley Hotel name on a building in Cerrillos! I didn’t know their business and influence went that far north during the Lincoln County War days.
I lived in New Mexico my entire life
Suprised you didn’t find a hippie.
I love this video – thank you – and thank you for not pinning a music soundtrack to it – yay!
I lived in Albuquerque for about six years, and traveled to this area often. I took a visitor to Madrid and Golden, where we sat for church services. In my retirement, I hope to be able to visit many ghost town areas in our country, particularly in the west.
Grounded have fun with curfew no damn littering and no elbows on table. Sterilization….for all us land
One of my favorite drives for the last sixty years. New Mexico is a beautiful state. Fall is the best time of the year.Wish I still lived there. Madrid looked like a real ghost town in the forties with most of the old mining company houses falling apart and the entire town in a state of advanced decrepitcy. If I recall correctly, the old stone coke ovens were still to be seen in Golden.The road from Golden to Cerrillos wasn’t paved until sometime in the late fifties. The road was New Mexico 10 until changed by the state to NM-14. Don’t really know why the state did that. Give yourself plenty of time if you plan to explore New Mexico. There is much to see and experience.
A Very nice video. thanks.
gosh i can’t wait
That trip we flew to Albuquerque in April. As we arrived early we decided to drive up the east side of the Sandia ridge. Halfway up we were driving the rental on snow! We flew all that way fron New Hampshire to drive on snow. Great fun and no problem as we had been driving on the stuff for decades. Start of another great visit to New Mexico.
Video didn’t mention the railroad museum and ampitheatre in Madrid or the Golden Inn in Golden, a well known road house where many well known musicians preformed and many other landmarks along N.M. 14 in the stretch between Tejeras Canyon (where I-40 and 14 intersect)and the village of Madrid. I lived in Madrid for a couple of years before the artists arrived in one of the old company houses when this place was a true ghost town. There were perhaps a dozen others there at the same time. That was in the middle of the 70’s. The feel of the place has completely changed. While it’s good to see Madrid lived in again it’s nothing like it is in my memories. Sad.
Well done video…your silence adds to the quietness of the region and is loneliness.
Don’t know if anyone remembers, but during the early 1970s the band, "The Family Lotus" played at the annual summer Cerrillos Fair which was a fund-raiser for the Turquoise Trail Fire Department (all volunteer). We played our music on Main Street where the dust sometimes swirled, the children played at the park, the home-made food was sold by local vendors and other bands like "Red Dirt" & "Last Mile Ramblers" filled the afternoon with good folk rock that made the dancers in the dirt street real happy.
Wortley Hotel…..can’t digest that name. They do not belong to the architecture of my lands!
great vids I would love to spend a lot of time checking out nm.
This has been a wonderful video…thank you for sharing
It was an honor to go with you
I retired here in New Mexico 5 month ago, love it here, not sure i would wanna earning a living here though.
What about the Golden Inn ? That used to be THE place to party!! Â I’m from Tijeras. Sure miss N.M. The vibe is not the same here in Maryland! Â HOMESICK!!!!
I visit there often all of my ‘Dads family was born in the village of Los "Cerrillos, and my "Grandpa Juan worked in the mines, he is ‘buried in "Santa fe, ‘my grandmother is buried in arizona. my dads cousins and uncles alot of them worked in the madrid mines under ‘harsh conditions. back in old times.
a place to retire in hmm
You missed the Mineshaft Tavern. Great food in a fine bar. In Madrid.
Cerillos not changed in 40 years
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Mil gracias for all you do and your stories!
When I lived in albuquerque, I frequently headed up 14 to sandia peak dr
to hike the east side of the sandia peak but I never went north up to Santa Fe.
Until one day after some sales calls in the city different I decided to take the
scenic and long way home back down this mysterious highway. I must say that
this video doesn’t even come close to doing Madrid justice. It was busy when I
drove thru it and it seemed like there was commerce everywhere. It totally looks like a town out of a novel. There is no other state in our nation mysterious, haunting and historically rich as new mexico. It’s a lonesome and hard place
to make it but i’ll never regret the life enriching 4 years I lived there.
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great vids I would love to spend a lot of time checking out nm.
You should seriously consider changing the name of this video. I’d love to have the fifteen minutes I wasted watching this back but that’s not possible. I hope to save other people from the egregious error of viewing this.
Love the 505
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Aptly named the land of enchantment!! In my past travels I love that state. Honestly think that Nov and Dec are ideal for visiting the northern parts of New Mexico, including Santa Fe and Taos and the native American pueblos there and statewide.The snow accented Adobe Structures can easily captivate any tourist!! Every place is unique there!!
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U lost ur country golfing. Amazing. United States the bully of all bullies is now owned by 6 flags…..
Those damn cowboys…..congrats u own United States….thank spm
God bless
Thank you God Bless
Thank you for taking us on vacation with you
We live not far from the Turquoise Trail and make the drive up to Madrid regularly. By the way, the town of Madrid is where a lot of the movie "Wild Hogs" was filmed. There is even a Wild Hogs cafe there now.
A wonderful video…. we are thinking of moving to New Mexico after our long stay in Arizona…. It is compelling how beautiful it is… thank you
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This is great. Thank you for sharing.