While South Dakota and Utah's badlands might be better known, New Mexico's colorful rock formations and remote badland wilderness is worth a visit.

The 783-acre area would become New Mexico's 36th state park - improving access to rugged wilderness areas and canyon trails ...

Mysteriously beautiful, White Sands National Park is home to the world's largest gypsum dune field. Spread across over 275 square miles of dazzling white sand dunes that shift with the wind, the park ...

Discover the best dog-friendly hikes in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and plan your next outdoor adventure with your fur babies.

Zeedyk structures are low-cost, high-impact conservation tools helping to preserve Colorado’s threatened grasslands.

Heirs to the Yates oil and gas fortune are selling the 110,000-acre property, which the family has used for hunting and ...

An environmental group instrumental in winning an endangered species listing for a struggling lizard species in the Permian ...

On behalf of my fellow westerners let me be the first to welcome our eastern visitors and their money to the Wild Wild West ...

On any other day, David Rodriguez’s truck would have been helping extract oil, and as he sucked mud from a well beneath a ...

In the high desert of north-central New Mexico, a 40-minute drive west of Santa Fe, a surreal landscape of eroded volcanic rock formations emerges. Towering hoodoos—cone-shaped spires reaching u ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. It is part four in a four-part series. Read part one here, part two here and part three here. Correction: This article has been ...