This weekend is something really special! The Las Cruces Convention and Visitors Bureau presents the first ever the Las Cruces Country Music Festival: a three day celebration of country music in downtown Las Cruces! The event features up and coming country music acts from Nashville and around the country! The festival showcases the music this city loves and the beautifully restored downtown!

The musical acts include Chase Yaklin, Greg Bates, Little Texas, ...

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This weekend, The Asombro Institute for Science Education (formerly the Chihuahuan Desert Nature Park), is hosting a guided hike and a screening of Planet Earth: Deserts. It'll start at 7PM on Saturday May 11th!

Located in the northern Chihuahuan Desert, the 935-acre Chihuahuan Desert Nature Park site is a topographically and biologically diverse example of this beautiful desert. The Nature Park encompasses a small section of the ...

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One of the highlights of Las Cruces is the blend of American and Mexican cultures.

This blend, which has been a cornerstone of Las Cruces history, means that holidays such as Cinco de Mayo are particularly important to our community. Every year the town of Old Mesilla hosts a weekend celebration for Cinco de Mayo. This year on May 4th and 5th ...

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The 19th Annual Border Book Festival (BBF), Raíces Reales del Camino Real/Royal Roots of the Camino Real, will take place April 19-21, 2013 on the original Camino Real and historic Las Cruces town site.

The Border Book Festival, to celebrate its move to its new home at 314 South Tornillo Street, will offer a film festival, filmmaker talks, panels, readings, music, food and more in Downtown Las Cruces at the Río Grande Theatre as ...

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On July 16, 1945 the world's first atomic bomb was tested at 5:29:45 a.m. in the White Sands Missile Range.

 

Every year, on the first Saturday in April, the missile range opens it's doors allowing the public to visit the site. This year the first Saturday is April 6, this weekend.

The open house is free. At the site, visitors can take a quarter-mile walk to ground zero, where a small obelisk marks the exact spot where the ...

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