This is the back way between Albuquerque and Santa Fe. We went to the ski areA AND WAY ABOVE THat to the lookout peak at 10,400' awesome view. Madrid was a former minint town, then ghost town and now artists have turned it into a tourist destination or trap, depending how you look at it. Wild Hogs was filmed here and took over the town with 1500 people that year. They compensated the stores for their loss as there was no parking for tourists and the only through street was blocked off.
Had lunch - beers were $3.95 each and then went to next town Cherillos which had a "museum". Mike paid the $2 for me to go in. The guy had trays of rocks and rock chips that would make his place worth $2 million if he got what was marked. He got most of his bottles from combing the dumpground. This was an experiment he said. I didn'[t get rocks for Jayden in one of those shops in Las Cruces plaza so thought I'd get them at some of these mine spots, but they want $3 for one chip rather than a small bag of colored pebbles. Fun side trip. One gal told us the whole history of turquoise mining and the Indians that cover shells with turquoise shavings ( her boss owned the mine). Didn't buy--not my thing.
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