THINGS TO DO IN & AROUND RUIDOSO
FISHING
State and Federal fishing waters include - Bonito Lake, Grindstone Lake, Rio Ruidoso. STATE LICENSING AND OR PERMIT ARE REQUIRED, PLEASE CHECK LOCAL AND STATE LAWS.
Hiking: Hike the Lincoln National Forest which includes the White Mountain Wilderness.
The US Forest Service offices are at 729 Mechem Dr.
Monjeau Lookout is located off of NM 532 (Ski Run Rd). Go west on Ski Run Rd. for about 1 mile and
then turn right on FR 117 5mi. Beautiful views
Fort Stanton Cave tours: The cave will now be open to the public for commercial tours of different lengths of time and prices of admission. Info: 575-937-1074.
Horseback Riding: Five area stables are available for horseback riding.
Skiing & Snowboarding: (Seasonal) At Ski Apache Ski Resort. Open from Thanksgiving through Easter. 575-464-3600 or www.skiapache.com
Swimming: (Seasonal) Ruidosos public pool features a giant slide and a separate baby pool. 575-257-2795 or RuidosoAthletic Club has a lap pool available for $10 (daily fee). 575-257-4900
Tennis: Ruidoso has tennis courts that are open to the public in two different areas; School House Park and the White Mountain Sports Complex. No reservation required.
Tubing: Ruidoso Winter Park (Seasonal) Some of the most exciting tubing you will find anywhere. With two state of the art Magic Carpet Lifts, there is no need for walking uphill. Located 1/4 mile west of Hwy 48 on lower Ski Run Rd. in the Eagle Creek Sports Complex. 575-336-7079 www.ruidoso.net/winterpark.
GAMING and HORSE RACING
Horse Racing: (Seasonal) Ruidoso Downs Racetrack is home to the Worlds Richest Quarter Horse race, the $2 million All American Futurity. Live racing begins on Memorial Day weekend and runs through Labor Day weekend, Thursday through Sunday. 575-378-4431or www.raceruidoso.com.
Billy the Kid Casino: Located next door to Ruidoso Downs Race Track. Slot machines provide all the noise and glitter of Las Vegas, while the off-track betting facility broadcasts horseracing from around the country. 575-378-4431 or www.raceruidoso.com.
Casino Apache Travel Center: Located on Highway 70 and has slots , roulette, blackjack and video poker. 575-464-7924 or www.innofthemountaingods.com
Inn of the Mountain Gods Casino: With a 38,000 square-foot gaming space, 1000 slot machines and 34 table games, you can choose from a variety of games, from nickel slots to high roller games. 1-877-277-4577 or www.innofthemountaingods.com.
MUSEUMS
Billy the Kid National Scenic Byway: Lincoln County and the Billy the Kid National Scenic Byway are rich in history. This driving loop circles much of the county, allowing visitors the chance to see a wide range of local topography, historic and artistic attractions. For more information call the Billy the Kid National Scenic Byway Visitor Center, located in Ruidoso Downs 575-378-5318
Fort Stanton Museum and Visitor Center: (Seasonal) Located off Airport Rd. (Hwy 220). Open 10 am to 4 pm, Thursday thru Monday. 575-354-0341or visit www.fortstanton.org.
Hubbard Museum of the American West: This museum is affiliated with the Smithsonian Institute. 841 Hwy 70 East in Ruidoso Downs. Open 9 am to 5 pm daily. 575-378-4142 or www.hubbardmuseum.org
Historic Lincoln: 30 miles Northeast of Ruidoso on US Hwy 380.575-653-4372 You can visit six museums operated by the Lincoln State Monument and see numerous other historic buildings, which include: The Courthouse Museum, The Anderson-Freeman Visitor Center, The Montano Store Museum, San Juan Mission, Tunstall Store Museum and Dr. Woods House Museum. www.redtt.org
Smokey Bear Historical Park and Museum: 118 Smokey Bear Blvd. in Capitan, NM. 575-354-2748 or
www.smokeybearpark.com.
Carrizozo Heritage Museum: 103 12th St. in Carrizozo, NM. 10 am to 2 pm Wednesday through Saturday. Closed January and February. Admission is free. 575-648-1105
Ruidoso River Museum: 101 Mechem Dr. , Ruidoso10 am to 5 pm Friday through Monday. Closed Tuesday and Wednesday. Admission Adult, $5.00 Children 16 and under $2.50. 575-257-2435 or online at www.ruidosorivermuseum.com
Please call ahead to make sure above Museums are open!
PUBLIC GOLF COURSES
The Links at Sierra Blanca: Is a world class, 18-hole course. The Scottish style course was designed by PGA Senior Professional, Jim Colbert. For tee times call 575-258-5330. www.thelinksatsierrablanca.com
Cree Meadows Golf Course: One of the areas oldest and most established course which includes a restaurant and lounge. 575-257-5815 or www.playcreemeadows.com
The Inn of the Mountain Gods Championship Golf Course: Challenge yourself this course is host to the New Mexico Open and 575-464-7945, 1-877-277-4577 or www.innofthemountaingods.com.
SHOPPING
Ruidosos historic midtown shopping area features a wide variety of unique boutiques with specialty
Items for any budget. Additional galleries, shopping areas and shopping venues are located throughout the Ruidoso area. Please visit our area merchants !
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PLACES TO EAT IN & AROUND RUIDOSO
WILLMON'S PRIME GRILLE
Fresh seafood, Prime steaks and irresistable desserts, packed with their secret ingredient... imagination! Open for dinner seven days a week 5:00 - 10:00 pm. 2325 Sudderth Drive, Ruidoso NM 575-257-2954
TEXAS CLUB GRILL & BAR
Enjoy great charbroiled steaks & seafood. Also featured are chicken fried steak, fried catfish, homemade soups & desserts. Relax with a cocktail and dance to live music on weekends in this establishment's popular bar. Dinner: Wednesday - Sunday. From Mechem Drive take Cree Meadows drive east to Metz and go left. 212 Metz Drive at Innsbrook Village. 575-258-3325
CAN'T STOP SMOKIN! BBQ
Old fashioned, hand processed beef, poultry, pork, ribs and famous jerkey. Dine in or carry out, its Bar-B-Q Done Right! Only the highest quality beef and grade A turkeys for our jerky. Our spices are a specialty blend we have created- no nitrates, MSG or preservatives added. Were here to serve you BBQ that is! 418 Mechem Drive, Ruidoso. 575-630-0000
PLACES TO SEE IN & AROUND RUIDOSO
MAJOR EVENTS IN & AROUND RUIDOSO
JANUARY - Disabled Skiers Annual Silent Auction
Area volunteerswork hard raising funds for this very worthwhile cause and the big event of the year is the Annual Silent Auction. Always held at the end of January, the auction has been going for years and generates over $20,000 annually. The Silent Auction is a great way to support a great program and your chance to pick up some of the best bargains in town! Significant works of art, ski equipment and apparel, Home décor items and the best collection of must have odds and ends youll ever see! So make sure your Ruidoso January plans include Ski Apaches Disabled Skiers Annual Silent Auction!
FEBRUARY - Annual mARTi Gras Celebration!
Each February New Orleans French Quarter visits Ruidoso at the Ruidoso Convention Center with the Ruidoso Regional Council for the Arts annual mARTi Gras Celebration its the Ruidoso version of Mardi Gras! Live music by a Dixieland or Cajun themed band plays all night long, a gumbo cook-off contest well supported by our chefs from some great local restaurants plus other wonderful food specialties. Every year, too, offers a special feature. Sometimes youll experience a Mardi Gras Costume Contest and other times a Mardi Gras related art event like their most recent art mask contest. Plus a silent auction with incredible bidding items takes place right during the night before your eyes!
MARCH - Mountain Living Home and Garden Show
What a great way to welcome springs return with the Annual Mountain Living Home and Garden Show. Every March more than 200 qualified experts convene at the Ruidoso Convention Center to meet you personally and demonstrate the latest products and designs. Here youll find: Handcrafted Furniture, Accessories & Art, Educational Seminars & Workshops, Building and Design, Gardening and Landscaping, Architecture & Remodeling Experts, Professionals in Home Sales & Financing and rhe Latest Tools & Materials. Ruidosos Mountain Living Home and Garden Show is a three day event taking place every spring at the Ruidoso Convention Center.
APRIL - High Mesa Artists Studio Tour near Ruidoso
Nogal New Mexico in April is nothing short of sublime. Simply put this is high desert perfection. Eight very talented local artists & crafters open their studios every spring and let you in on for a unique view into their fascinating worlds. The high plains and rolling grassland orchards of Nogal, New Mexico are the perfect setting for the annual event which takes place without fail every April. Meet and Greet the Artists on their home turf do dont miss this great annual Lincoln County Art Event right outside of Ruidoso! High Mesa Artists Studio Tour occurs along New Mexico State HWY 37, between Mile Markers number 4 and number 6.
MAY - Ruidosos AspenCash Motorcycle Rally
Nothing matches the excitement of seeing and hearing thousands of well-tuned, metal-flaked, custom-chromed, fat-tired, open exhaust works of rolling art cruising down Main Street in Ruidoso, New Mexico. And during four days every May that is exactly what happens! With a $10,000 poker run, 33,000 square feet of trade show at the Ruidoso Convention Center and some of the best riding country God ever created, youll know why this is one of the most popular and respected rallies held in the Southwest. Riders journey from all over the United States renew old friendships and shake off winters blues. A single ride can take you up winding switchbacks on Ski Run Road to the high elevation at 9600 feet at the base of Ski Apache Then cruise over to Lincoln, New Mexico, the historic old west town where the Billy the Kid shot his way through history and onto the Silver Screen. Save a little time to visit Smokey Bears grave site in the town of Capitan on your return to Ruidoso.
JUNE - Ruidosos Mountain of Blues Festival
Ruidoso Mountain of Blues Incorporated is dedicated to keeping the musical tradition of Live Blues alive and kicking in Ruidoso, New Mexico with one of the Southwests most respected and anticipated annual Live Blues Events. National touring artists regularly headline the show backed up by a regular cast of great regional acts. This combination makes for a quality live blues concert experience previously unseen or unheard for that matter high desert town of Ruidoso New Mexico! The Mountain Blues Jam takes place on schedule every June in Ruidoso ... so mark you calendar! Plenty of delicious local food, beverage vendors and great tunes. This event is friendly with kids activities available during the event like a fantastic moon bounce and other play areas.
JULY - Art Loop Studio Tour
Art Loop® is the Grandmother of studio tours in Lincoln County, every year getting bigger and better than ever. A jury selects the participating artists, and the tour has attracted many of the top artists in the area. Now in its 14th year, it traditionally takes place the first weekend following July 4th. This year some studios are presenting multiple artists work. Youll find 36 artists featured in 22 locations throughout the county; all private places that radiate the inspiration and passion of these very talented individuals. Among the offerings are fine-art paintings, pottery, fabric art, glass sculpture, turned wood, jewelry, gourd art, hand-knit clothing, ceramic creations, painted silk, and photographic digital prints.
JULY - Ruidoso Art Festival
Ruidoso is home to some world class artists and galleries as well as the now famous summer art festival in held every July for nearly 40 years. The Show is the granddaddy of Art Festivals in the Southwest and features approximately 120 juried artists from a dozen states displaying paintings, drawings, photography, glass, porcelain, metalwork, woodwork, jewelry, batik, pottery, weaving, fabric, leather work and sculpture. Set in the spacious Ruidoso Convention Center every inch is filled with beautiful craftsmanship and unparalleled artistry. These artists travel from all over the U.S. to join with other gifted artisans in showing and selling their pieces and this dynamic really works here. Recognized by the Harris Poll as one of the top Juried Art Shows in the United States, the Annual Ruidoso Arts Festival is a must see Ruidoso event.
AUGUST - Fort Stanton Live!
This annual living history event takes place every August at the best preserved Calvary Fort in the West. This picturesque old cavalry fort on the banks of the Bonita River in the White Mountains of New Mexico is a perfect historical setting. Fort Stanton Live is an annual two-day event that has folks dressed in period costumes reenacting life at the Fort as it was in the 1800s. Cavalry, infantry and artillery garrisons will perform their drills as blacksmith work their forges. An 1880s minstrel show will entertain and an old-fashioned gambling hall will be open to give you a real sense of the era. Native Americans will perform their traditional dances and a Chautauqua performance is guaranteed to please. Theres a fashion show with the Friends of Fort Seldon narrating detailed descriptions of the attire. On Sunday at noon a Civil war tactical battle will takes place to end the event with a bang.
SEPTEMBER - All American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs Racetrack
Do you know which is the worlds richest Quarter Horse race? Its the $2 million All-American Futurity and its home is right in Ruidosos sister city, Ruidoso Downs in Southeast New Mexico. Every Day Labor Day, which is always the first Monday in September, this event is the culmination of another exciting reason at Ruidoso Downs Racetrack and Casino. This event which debuted in 1959 with a winning filly named Galobar, has been growing strong and gaining continuous momentum ever since this inaugural year. 2008 marks the events Silver Anniversary. Ruidoso Downs Racetracks first race was run in the summer of 1947. At that time there was no established racing facility so it literally took hours to prepare for this first race, a race in which locals volunteered to judge the finish. In the late 1940s this track was little more than a coarsely plowed road with a considerable uphill tilt.
SEPTEMBER - Golden Aspen Motorcycle Rally in Ruidoso
New Mexicos premier Motorcycle event celebrates itself every September in the Pine-topped Sacramento Mountains in and around Ruidoso! Exciting entertainment, five different poker runs and tours with big cash prizes, bike judging, free meals, chances to win a new Harley and lots of old fashioned Ruidoso are this annual events hallmarks. The Ruidoso Golden Aspen Motorcycle Rally offers up 86,400 square feet of trade show as well featuring leather goods, clothing, accessories, bike gadgets, bikes themselves, trailers, tools and just about anything youll need, want and desire for cruising on your bike! Every year too, two featured Rally Concerts take place in cooperation with the Ruidoso Downs Racetrack and Casino and the Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort and Casino.
OCTOBER - Ruidoso Aspen- fest Weekend Celebration
Aspenfest occurs the first weekend of October every year in and around Ruidoso. The weekend includes the fantastic Aspenfest parade right through midtown Ruidoso, the Classic Car show at Ruidoso Downs Racetrack, The New Mexico State Chili cook-off and a great Arts and Crafts fair at Schoolhouse Park in Ruidoso. The Aspenfest parade typically includes more than 25 floats, 80 entries and five marching bands from area schools dazzling thousands of spectators who line up and down Sudderth Drive. Every year a new parade theme guides the entrants in decorating and presenting their entries. Great Chili and with live music and cold beer are the hallmarks of the New Mexico State Chili cook-off happening this weekend. The Classic Car show at Ruidoso Downs Racetrack offers up an incomparable collection of road beauties from the past.
OCTOBER - Lincoln County Cowboy Symposium and Chuck Wagon Cook-off
The finest cowboy poets, artists and musicians descend upon Ruidoso Downs every fall During the second full weekend every October, Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico plays host to the nation's finest cowboy poets, musicians, including the world famous Texas Playboys, chuck wagon cooks, western artists and craftsmen for a incomparable three day event The Lincoln County Cowboy Symposium. Great competitions and workshops are held as well. The Symposium also features endless demonstrations including horsemanship with Craig Cameron, the real Horse Whisperer, roping and blacksmithing. Vendor booths brim with western arts and crafts and The Symposium has plenty for the kids to do including competition dummy roping, mutton bustin, stick horse barrel racing, goat roping and a goat-sheep scramble.
NOVEMBER - Ruidosos Annual Christmas Jubilee
With over 88 vendors with unique gifts for all ages including handmade items from local craftsmen The Annual Christmas Jubilee remains Ruidoso's Favorite Shopping Experience, offering something for everyone. This annual event takes place at the Ruidoso Convention Center and is the perfect place to do all of your Christmas shopping with just one stop. Crafters offering hundreds of unusual and fascinating handiworks ply their products. Artisans display a variety of work to tickle your fancy and awaken your imagination. Local merchants bring traditional and distinctive gifts items. Be sure to bring the kids, because you-know-who will be there making his list and checking it twice.
DECEMBER - Ruidoso Festival of Lights
The Festival kicks off Thanksgiving Day with the start of a juried lighting competition among businesses and homeowners. Participants illuminate the exterior of their homes and businesses, filling the Ruidoso Valley with a profusion of glittering white light. The juried lighting competition brings out the creativity of Ruidoso citizens and business owners and will provide Ruidoso visitors with a wonderful opportunity to enjoy the Villages decorative spirit. More lighting fun for the whole community continues with Ruidosos traditional Christmas in the Park tree featuring holiday music, caroling, food and beverage, and of course, a visit from Santa. The FOL hosts an electric light parade as well with floats packed with festive folks and seasonal decorations. The Village offers a winter wonderland, a sparkling mountain hideaway during The Annual Ruidoso Valley Festival of Lights.
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