The New York Times visits the Jemez (hey-mess) Mountains. The article begins:
Perched at 6,300 feet and sandwiched between two striking red-rock mesas, the New Mexico town of Jemez Springs has long been a place of uncommon natural beauty and a refuge for all manner of pilgrims. In the 13th century, the Jemez people migrated to the valley, establishing a series of settlements in the area’s canyons; in the 17th century, Franciscan missionaries arrived, forcibly establishing a church in the Guisewa Pueblo — now the remarkably preserved Jemez State Monument. By the 1870s, a bathhouse was built, offering curative soaks in tubs fed by the town’s famous mineral hot springs.
Today, the bathhouse is restored and open for business; down the road, a Zen meditation center promises austere yogic calm. In Jemez Springs, about an hour and 15 minutes north of Albuquerque, there are artists and drifters and refugees from big-city living. It’s also a draw for hikers, bikers and anglers. Lava flows created the area’s rippling rock forms and bubbling fissures, and, as it has been for many over the centuries, the wrinkled landscape is a balm.
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