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Taos Regional Airport (IATA: TSM, ICAO: KSKX, FAA LID: SKX) is a public use airport eight nautical miles (15 km) northwest of the central business district of Taos, in Taos County, New Mexico, United States. It is owned by the Town of Taos. [1] FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013 classifies it as a general aviation ...
This article lists all airports in New Mexico (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
Taos (/ t aʊ s /) is a town in Taos County, in the north-central region of New Mexico in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.Initially founded in 1615, it was intermittently occupied until its formal establishment in 1795 by Nuevo México Governor Fernando Chacón to act as fortified plaza and trading outpost for the neighboring Native American Taos Pueblo (the town's namesake) and Hispano ...
Taos Air was an American virtual airline that operated seasonal scheduled public air charter service between Taos Regional Airport in Taos, New Mexico, and several airports in California and Texas. The airline was owned by Taos Ski Valley, Inc .
Taos Plaza is a tourist destination with many shops displaying Northern New Mexico foods and cultural items, including products made in Taos, chile ristras, packaged food items, Southwestern jewelry, pottery, clothing, leather work, and Native American moccasins and drums. [15]
Severino Martinez built a flourishing mercantile business trading goods from Northern New Mexico, allowing him to send [citation needed] [nb 5] his son Antonio José Martínez to study for the priesthood in Durango, Mexico. [18] Antonio José was a spiritual leader in Taos from 1826 to 1867. [3] Severino lived at the hacienda until his death in ...
[10] [11] A branch of the route from Bent's Fort went into Taos in or after the founding of the Santa Fe Trail in 1821. [12] The first wagon train was led by Charles Bent in 1831. Bent, the brother of William Bent of Bent's Fort , became the most successful merchant in Taos before being made governor of New Mexico .
The 56-mile (90 km) High Road to Taos is a scenic, winding road through the Sangre de Cristo Mountains between Santa Fe and Taos. (The "Low Road" runs through the valleys along the Rio Grande). It winds through high desert, mountains, forests, small farms, and tiny Spanish land grant villages and Pueblo Indian villages. Scattered along the way ...