10 Destinations NOT to Visit, Does NM Make the Cut? Did Taos Make the Cut?

In AOL Travel, Cahterine Price, author of 101 Places Not to See Before You Die picks her to most overhyped tourist traps ever.  One of her choices is Four Corners.  It's the only place in the USA where four states meet in a single point.  Located in far NW New Mexico (the other 3 states refer to it a little differently), we visitied last year and it is honestly under whelming from a vista perspective.  Nothing like the Taos area.  The other problem is that the monument is now thought to be mislocated by about 2.5 miles according to an MSNBC report in 2009.

Whoops, those media reports in 2009 were wwwwwwwrong.  Doesn't surprise you does it.  A basic tenet of boundary surveying is that once a monument has been established and accepted by the parties involved (in the case of the Four Corners monument, the parties were the four territories and the U.S. Congress), the location of the physical monument is the ultimate authority in delineating a boundary. Issues of legality trump scientific details, and the intended location of the point becomes secondary information. In surveying, monuments rule!  In other words, it is 100% exactly what and where it is supposed to be.

The end result of Prices opinion is that you'd be better off spending your time enjoying the MANY other scenic spots of the area.  So, it would seem that Taos and New Mexico do make the cut but just in all the other parts of the state and Taos area that offer exquisite tourist sites to see.

Give me a week.  I'll keep you entertained in the Taos area for all those 7 days.  Our "tour guide" like front desk team will keep you moving through museums the likes of which you've never before enjoyed.  We'll keep you wandering by car and on foot from Southern Colorado to Santa Fe, from Cumbres & Toltec in Chama on the West to Raton on the East (both on US 64).  We can keep you hiking from going 500 feet down into the Rio Grande gorge to peaking the highest point in NM, Wheeler Peak.  All from the convenience of your downtown Taos comfortable hotel, Indian Hills Inn, Taos Plaza.

Loads of activities from now thru October, 2010.   You don't have the time for me to write any more.  Frankly, a week is not enough!

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