Worth the drive if you take the tour up the hill. Visiting the center itself good to see the…read morehistory and culture.

As local New Mexico residents, we have driven by this exit so many times. Had a house guest from…read moreTaiwan and decided to take the short ride to Sky City and visit the Acoma Pueblo. It was amazing, our tour guide Gayle, was outstanding...so well informed and was able to relate the history and lifestyle on the pueblo. We all enjoyed the visit. Many vendors offer local goods and artworks. I highly recommend look for Gayle as your tour guide.

The most striking of the Pueblo villages, and perhaps the oldest continuously occupied community in…read morethe USA, is Acoma Pueblo, and more particularly, Sky City. 60 miles west of Albuquerque, N.M., the "People of the White Rock," first established their adobe homes atop this isolated butte 360 feet above the arid plain below sometime in the 12th Century, long before the invading Conquistadors in the 16th Century. A perfect fortress against marauders, the few thousand locals who worked the land below and maintained the hidden stairways and tunnels to the 70 flat acres above, were prosperous farmers and traders with indigenous groups as far away as the Aztec and Mayans in Central America, with established trails from ocean to ocean. For anyone who has visited Israel and climbed Masada overlooking the Dead Sea, Acoma Sky City feels like a brother citadel. The climb is not as long, but the sense of history and humanity is as powerful. You can now take a motorized vehicle to the summit, but that would be cheating you out of a most challenging and unique experience. Go on foot, from narrow stone step to the next; grabbing handholds where strategically placed, and duck down to squeeze through narrow vertical shafts to the next level, until emerging on top where ancient adobe homes and wide dusty plaza greet you. Walk around allowing your imagination to return you to the 14th Century when Acoma was a center of civilization, and you could see 100 miles in all directions from the rim.

Don't bother. The "pueblo" is just a bunch of mis-matched houses patched with modern materials like…read morevinyl windows, concrete blocks, bricks, and tar paper. Window air conditioning units abound. Cars are parked willy-nilly everywhere so there is no way to take a decent photo. The tour was supposed to be at least 45 minutes but the tour guide (not very informative) was shooing us back onto the bus at 25 minutes. The history of the pueblo is interesting but the present-day reality, not so much. Serious disappointment.

This marker is located along Main Street aka SR 606 just south of I-40. It points out the history…read moreof the area. It reads, "This community was founded in 1894 on the site of an earlier homestead and stage coach stop. Irrigation from Bluewater Lake and its proximity on the railroad and Route 66 allowed development of extensive agricultural fields, which earned Bluewater the title, "Carrot Capital of the World." The region became known as the "Uranium Capital of the World" after uranium was discovered nearby in 1950." The marker was erected by the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division. There is room to pull to the side to read it and look around. [Review 21063 overall - 111 in New Mexico - 26 of 2024.]

This is where we get our mail. The place is clean. The staff is very nice. The parking lot is…read morealways clean.

All the people that have worked there the past five years have been very helpful and pleasant.read more

Our Postmistress is wonderful!! We live off of Hwy 53, in the La Vega Estates. But my husband and I…read moreare both disabled, and our vechicle doesn't always start and run when it should, but we can call her when we have a package(or lots of mail!) come in and she will put in in the "package" post office box so that we can pick it up when we can get the truck started (to sign the paper that comes in to sign)!! She is ALWAYS friendly with us and asks how we are! We couln't ask for anyone better!!!!!!!!!