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The Sangre de Cristo Mountains are one of the longest mountain chains on Earth. They stretch from Poncha Pass, Colorado, in the north to Glorieta Pass, New Mexico, in the south. There are ten peaks over 14,000' high in the range, more than two dozen over 13,000'. Miles and miles of excellent alpine hiking trails through millions of acres of the San Isabel, Rio Grande, Carson, and Santa Fe National Forests. The Sangre de Cristo, Wheeler Peak, Latir Peak, Pecos, and Spanish Peaks National Wilderness Areas are found here. Some of the best rock climbing, snow skiing and whitewater rafting on Earth are also right here. The Trinchera elk herd is one of the largest in the world. Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep are found all through the range. If it's fly fishing you want, we have Gold Medal waters to offer. There's also the Great Sand Dunes, the Spanish Peaks and seven major ski areas.

Winter in the Rockies is a real wonderland sometimes. If you're looking for a handy way to check a bunch of ski areas at one time, this page has Live Reports for Ski Areas in New Mexico and Colorado. With these instantly updated Snow Reports, you can find out information about how deep the snow base is, how much has accumulated in the past 24 hours, what the snow surface is like, how many lifts are open, how many trails are open. These reports cover Taos Ski Valley, Angel Fire, Red River, Sipapu, Ski Santa Fe, Ski Apache, Pajarito, and Sandia Peak in New Mexico, as well as Durango Ski Area, Wolf Creek Ski Area, Telluride, Monarch, Silverton Mountain, and Crested Butte, Vail, Breckenridge, Steamboat Springs, Ajax (Aspen), Aspen Highlands, Buttermilk (Aspen), Snowmass, Copper Mountain, and Winterpark in Colorado.

For those of you who want to see when the International Space Station (ISS) will be in our skies over Taos, the National Aronaitics and Space Administration (NASA) provides this <b>Way Cool ISS Global Position Map</b>. This space station map is constantly being updated with the latest space station positioning information. Since it's up there just over 200 miles in the air and traveling at over 17,000 Miles Per Hours, updates are frequent. The main view shows a global map. If you zoom in you can track the space station's position using a map like those on planes for long-distance international flights.

This important Taos County site is operated by Karen Mitchell, the coordinator of the Taos County, NMGenWeb Project. Posted on this site are some genealogy links pertaining to Taos County. NM USGenWeb Project Links Taos County Lookups Volunteers who have offered their time and help to do specific lookups in Taos County. Taos County Resources is where you will find Queries, Surnames, Bible Records, Deeds, Obituaries, Pensions, Wills, Census, Histories, and Databases. U.S. Census Bureau Statistics to read the latest census statistics for Taos County. USGenWeb Project Page, NMGenWeb Project State Page, WorldGenWeb Page.

Click this site link to find a Way Cool Map of Taos and most of the businesses and attractions. The Poster map of this is hanging all over town and in the online version the same map is interactive and you'll love it, fer sher. Taos Discovery Interactive Map is put together locally by Ellary Simms and made by an online company in Anacortes, WA. <font color="red">Right on!</font>

The 'Taos Hum' is a low-pitched sound heard in numerous places worldwide, especially in the USA, UK, and northern europe. It is usually heard only in quiet environments, and is often described as sounding like a distant diesel engine.<br/>

Taos on Wikipedia - Taos is a city in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico. In New Mexico, a municipality may call itself a village, town, or city. Taos calls itself the "Town of Taos" and was incorporated as such in 1934. As of the 2000 census, it population was 4,700. Being located close to Taos Pueblo, the Native American village and tribe from which it takes its name, it is also the county seat of Taos County. The name also refers to the nearby ski resort of Taos Ski Valley. The word 'Taos' means 'red willow' in the Tiwa language. Many people in Taos have experienced what is termed the Taos Hum, a low-frequency noise whose source and nature are still a mystery and for which a variety of theories have been advanced. The lore of this phenomenon has become part of the appeal of this unique community.

World Heritage Sites has a small informational page on Taos Pueblo..., just in case you want a very quick history from the NPS.gov perspective. "The pueblo of Taos, still active today, symbolizes Indian resistance to external rule."<br/>

This site on cityfreq.com lists all of the scanner frequencies in Taos, including HM Electronics - Burger King, Colomex, Robert Medina Sons Concrete Sand, Kit Casron Electric, lots of McDonalds Corporation frquencies, Kacina Lodge, Redtail Surveying and many more.

This simple page on nmcounties.org has a lot of very useful Taos statistics such as the value of Taos County which was $676,500,978 at the time of this posting