NEW MEXICO ADVENTURES

HERITAGE INSPIRATIONS

Offering Daily Half & Full Day Tours that invite you to experience the adventure, culture, art and wellness of Taos with our local guides. Visit our tour office located at El Monte Sagrado Resort & Spa.

Hours: 9:30am-4pm Tue-Sun
Phone: 1-888-344-TOUR (1-888-344-8687)
Email: info@heritageinspirations.com

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Artisan Half-Day Walking Tour

Do happy hour with Taos artisans on this walking tour. Experience Taos’ funky artistic spirit while investigating the city center’s rich artistic history. Weaving through winding alleyways and backstreets, explore the local art scene and engage with local craftspeople as they create their inspired creations. Finish with happy hour fun at Chokola Bean to Bar for organic, small-batch, exquisitely crafted chocolate.

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Taos Active Half-Day Tour

Get a quick taste of Taos’ great outdoor surroundings with this active half-day tour. Journey to Taos’ outskirts to walk the seventh tallest bridge in the U.S., the Taos Gorge Bridge, and then take a nearby Rio Grande Del Norte National Monument hike on the La Vista Verde Trail. This 2 ½ mile, 6.400-foot round trip expedition offers breathtaking scenery and spectacular panoramic views of the raging waters within the plungingly steep walled gorge at your feet.

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Taos Cultural Half-Day Tour

Visit the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Taos Pueblo. Then, go to the Millicent Rogers Museum to peruse an incredible collection of Hispanic and Native American artifacts and finally visit the San Francisco Asis Church, a 17th century Spanish Colonial treasure and the most photographed chapel in New Mexico. 

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Horno Baking at Taos Pueblo

Go deeper than most visitors by learning and interacting with the Taos Puebloans through this horno bread baking tour. Learn about these adobe arched outdoor ovens and the best ways to shape and bake Puebloan bread, directly from a Taos tribal member. After making bread, walk through and explore Taos Pueblo, a UNESCO World Heritage site known for their continuously inhabited 1000 year+ adobe buildings, and then have lunch at a local grandmother’s café.

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Ghost Ranch Hiking Tour in Abiquiú

Easily imagine old western movie backdrops with this journey from Taos to Ghost Ranch. Journey through red earth and multi-colored basalt covered in dusty green sagebrush on a 3-mile Chama River Valley hike to Chimney Rock. See why this sculpted textured land inspired Georgia O’Keeffe and learn about rare fossilized dinosaur discoveries. This tour highlights the stimulating vistas and prehistoric escapades of this glorious Northern New Mexico region.

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Hiking in Rio Grande Del Norte Monument & Taos Pueblo Tour

Explore Taos’ Puebloan culture and the land Puebloans have called home for 1000s of years with a visit to Taos Pueblo, Taos Gorge Bridge and the Rio Grande Del Norte National Monument. This interpretive guided experience highlights prehistoric dwellings and the stunning geological background of the Rio Grande Rift Valley. After exploring the village’s historical and modern-day contexts, see how the river has carved out an 800-foot descent through the thick lava walls of basalt rock.

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Taos Sunrise Yoga with a View of the Rio Grande

As the eternal promise of the rising sun marks a new day, we invite you to join our yoga instructors for a morning to remember. Upon arrival we will depart on a 1/2 mile moderate hike to a stunning overlook. There you will orient your mat and spirit to the cresting sun as you enjoy a private, hour long yoga practice.  Before returning to the trailhead we will take time for self-reflection as we absorb the canyon views, the distant sound of the Rio Grande, and the fresh scent of desert sage.

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Abiquiú Artisan Studio Tour from Taos

While exploring Abiquiú, it’s not difficult to uncover why so many artists have made their home among her mesas, buttes, valleys, canyons and plateaus with vivid hues painted and etched across her landscape like poetry.

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Hands-On Horno Baking in a Puebloan Home 

We invite you to immerse in ancient traditions as we visit the Naranjo family at their home on the Ohkay Owingeh (formally the San Juan) Pueblo. In a familial setting, you will be invited to prepare food, share stories, feast, and bake with the traditional dome shaped adobe “Horno” ovens.

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Snowshoeing

Backcountry Snowshoeing Day Tour

If you can walk, you can snowshoe. Float on snow in a snowshoe only designated section of Carson National Forest. Amole Canyon offers unsullied old growth ponderosa pine as well as excellent conditions for all levels of snowshoe experience. After a snowshoe strapping demonstration, pole fitting and short safety talk, enjoy two miles of quiet blanketed wilderness at over 8.000 feet. This tour can also be paired with an afternoon wine tasting.

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Taos Glamping Adventure

3 Day | 2 Night Taos Glamping

This three-day, two-night glamping experience features the best of Taos hiking in the Rio Grande Valley, stand-up paddle boarding on Lake Abiquiu within Tewa Country, farm-to-table dining and sleeping in a fusion of glamour and Taos camping. Journey With Us and read how we have cultivated this experience in our Travel Blog and our first Perseid Meteor Experience.

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Culinary Outdoor Adventure

The Racecourse is a class 2-3 rapid (4 during high water levels) section of the Rio Grande and is for thrill-seeking folks!  After you’re grinning from ear to ear from your rafting adventure you will journey further down river to Vivác Winery where we will indulge in an epicurean lunch!

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