Local brewery. Indoor/outdoor seating. Great drinks, AMAZING pretzels (dessert or salted), and usually some live music and food trucks! Fun place to hang out.
Whether you have national parks on your bucket list or not, you want to check out White Sands! There are massive sand dunes for miles. You can enjoy from the car, or you can park along the path and sled down the dunes! Don’t forget to grab some wax in the visitor center!
Just a short drive up the mountain is a little village town called Cloudcroft. The drive is beautiful, and at the end of it, a quaint little town with lots of fun little shops, including local handmade jewelry, wine tasting, coffee shops, and more! It's also where Tane popped the question!