Angel Fire moves into Winter fun

The lights are on and we are having fun on the mountain! Yes, Angel Fire has the only ski area in New Mexico with night skiing and tubing and people are taking advantage of the night and the fun.

The early season snows and the excellent grooming by the snow makers and groomers have once again given us great skiing and snowboarding conditions.

We have been planning for you to arrive. Angel Fire Resort has been busy putting together a list of fun and exciting weekends and festivals for the upcoming year.

The newest festival planned for this year is the Powderkeg Mountain Festival, January
22-31, 2010. Ten days of music, skiing, fun and games and radio station remote broadcasts. Make your plans to be a part of this awesome event.

Angel Fire Resort has also just announced that they are returning the Angel Fire Shovel Race Championships during the 43rd Ski Season on February 6, 2010. Get out that snow shovel, wax it up and try your luck in this fast and fun race down the mountain.

Angel Fire will again host Mardi Gras in Angel Fire, February 13-16, 2010. For those Louisiana skiers, we have as much fun as New Orleans, but not in your backyard. We take over the whole mountain and have our own mountain celebration! Bring your beads and costumes and party with us.

Another new event announced recently is slated for March 17, 2010. That is St. Patricks Day, and the event is Shamrocks and Swimsuits. We have not gotten many details for this one yet, but it is purported to be a fun day of skiing and boarding on the slopes and parties throughout the day. Bring your swimsuit and board or skis and have fun on the mountain.

Angel Fire looks forward to being your home away from home so bring the whole family. There a great shopping and dining along with enjoying all the recreation.

Fall Is In The Air

It's another beautiful day here in Angel Fire. Our lovely aspens are beginning to turn golden, and in another couple of weeks the mountainsides will be on fire (so to speak!) with spectacular color. The elk are bugling, and soon they'll begin congregating on the golf course in the evenings. What a sight! Don't you wish you were here?

It's been a good summer, and as we enjoy another gorgeous fall we're all starting to think "snow." In fact we're supposed to get some overnight, though we have plenty of cool sunny days left for hiking, biking, fishing, ATV or horseback riding. And let's not forget the amazingly starry nights! How many constellations can you identify? Hmmmm . . . maybe it's time to think about coming to visit.

By the way, we're looking for pictures of Angel Fire in action -- people having fun, people doing business, our excellent array of wildlife, and so on. We're creating brand new websites for tourism and economic development, and we are also starting work on our 2010 Angel Fire Visitors Guide, and pictures are worth a thousand words, as the saying goes. Got something you think we could use? We'd love to see it. You can email your pix to Jimmy Linton, our Visitor Center manager, at jimmy@AngelFireFun.com. Don't forget to include your name and contact information!

We have a new Facebook page, too. Consider this your invitation to become a FAN of the Angel Fire Visitor Center.