“I grew up in Albuquerque my entire life and when I was growing up, Valles Caldera was a private ranch; and it never showed up on a map other than a big white square,” Silva-Bañuelos sai ...

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Hike into Valles Caldera today, and you’d never guess that this sunken oval of ponderosa forests and trout streams 40 miles northwest of Santa Fe was the epicenter of a cataclysmic explosion.

Just past the Valles Caldera National Preserve sign, in New Mexico’s Jemez Mountains, he brakes. The pine forests sandwiching Highway 4 have dropped away, replaced to the north by the Valle ...

Teeming with wildlife and brimming with jaw-dropping beauty, the Valles Caldera has a way of conjuring moments that leave visitors in awe. In her time spent roaming its sweeping grassland meadows ...

The Valles Caldera National Preserve was recognized as an International Dark Sky Park (IDSP) in 2021. (Courtesy of The U.S. National Park Service) The Valles Caldera National Preserve was already ...

Among them is one of the newest in the system, the Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico, which traces its origins to a mere 1.25 million years ago. That’s when a massive volcanic ...