Things to do/places to go in Albuquerque in January

In My Humble Opinion
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I’ll be visiting Albuquerque (gawd, I hope I’m spelling this right) next January, and would like a head start on planning my non-meeting time. Any suggestions???

I’ll be at the Hyatt Regency

labtrash

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Let’s see…there’s a 2600 meeting every last friday of the month at the Winrock Center food court, there should be Scorpions hockey games, UNM Basketball is always popular…

You might want to ride the tram, ski Sandia Peak, check out the downtown bars (especially El Rey if you like live bands), or go to the National Atomic Museum.

There’s lots of stuff to do if you know where to look.

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Wait until evening then take Central all the way (uh…west? east? towards the imposing-looking Sandia mountains, I’m pretty sure that’s east) out past Juan Tabo and out to where you eventually come to a little suburban subdivision with weirdly curving streets (which is unusual in grid-square Albuquerque, btw) which inch up the side of the mountains. Drive or walk in the subdivision and gain elevation at every opportunity, and towards the end you’ll find some streets that dead-end into dirt roads. Get out there and look back and you’ll have Albuquerque sprawled out below you like a galaxy in a basin.

Oh, and do the Tramway during the day, just for the view.

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[ul][li]Try to get out of Albuquerque.[/ul][/li]Hope that helped.

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Old town is fun.

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As some one else said check out the National Atomic museum. It is on the Airforce base off of Wyoming if I remember correctly.

Another really cool thing is to take the road up the the Peak(Sandia mountain Peak that is) if you have the time. It is a really pretty drive through the mountains and has a great view once you get to the top. Try to get there around dusk as Albuquerque has some of the best sunsets around if you are lucky. Wait a bit and then you will have a wonderful view of the ABQ valley lit up. If you cannot take the time to drive try the Tram which is, or at least was, the worlds longest aerial tram (1).

Also, if you can get the time drive up to Santa Fe. There is some really neat art places and the like around the plaza.

Slee

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Along with taking the tram up to the Sandia area, you can just go up and watch the hang gliders launching from the top of the mountain as well.

You would think they would find it too cold in January, but I have seen them every time I went skiing up there.