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Elephant Butte Lake A Hidden Oasis If you want to unplug in a time warp, head down I-25 to Exit 79. Blink, and you might miss it—but that would be a mistake. Truth or Consequences, New Mexico—known as T or C—is a funky desert town of about 6,000, roughly 120 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. Its history stretches back to prehistoric peoples who built pit houses and pueblo-like dwellings along canyons feeding the Rio Grande. The river still flows, and linger long enoug

The Apostle Islands Ice Caves feel like one of those places you assume isn’t real until you’re standing inside it. Tucked along the shoreline of Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin, these winter-only formations turn the coast into something straight out of a fantasy movie—no CGI, no filters, just ice doing the absolute most. When conditions line up just right, Lake Superior freezes along the islands and mainland cliffs, locking waves in place mid-motion.

An outdoor short poem written by Stephanie Ruth Roston BFA