Cheap Things To Do in Grants, New Mexico

The haunted, dramatic lands of El Malpais bear witness to rugged natural forces and vanishing cultures. A lava field creates a landscape of pressure ridges, spatter cones and lava tubes. Sandstone ... More on LLBean.com

262,000 acres containing vast lava fields, La Ventana Natural Arch, Cebolla and West Malpais Wildernesses, plus Chain-of-Craters Back Country Byway all of which provide varied recreational possibil... More on Epinions.com

Part of El Malpais National Conservation Area, Cebolla Wilderness lies just across State Highway 117 from West Malpais Wilderness but offers easier traveling than the ominously raw volcanic terrain... More on Epinions.com

Part of El Malpais National Conservation Area, Cebolla Wilderness lies just across State Highway 117 from West Malpais Wilderness but offers easier traveling than the ominously raw volcanic terrain... More on Epinions.com

To people for whom wilderness is synonymous with natural grandeur Yellowstone, the Colorado Rockies, Canyonlandsthe West Malpais Wilderness will probably be a disappointment. Sure, the nearby El Ma... More on Trails

El Malpais is Spanish for "the badlands," a name that perfectly describes this region of New Mexico, where countless volcanic eruptions sent rivers of molten rock and flying cinders over what is no... More on Epinions.com

Evoking the South Dakota Badlands, this New Mexico preserve has a stark, austere beauty. This parkâs rugged... More on travelandleisure

I decided to drive off the main highway and detour to the ranger station at the park. More on igougo

The Northwest New Mexico Visitor Center was completed through a cooperative effort between federal, state and local agencies, a non-profit entity and tribal governments. The Visitor Center provides... More on recreation.gov

East of Grants, this center sits within an expansive Pueblo-style building with a broad atrium showing off views of the Malpais. It offers fliers and films on the region's parks, forests, and Indi... More on Frommers

The New Mexico Mining Museum is primarly a museum. But it has an underground part, a reconstructed uranium ... More on showcaves.com

Eat at nearby El Cafecito! More on TripAdvisor

This museum has a great amount of historical items about the history of the mining industry around this area. More on GeckoGo

Big Skylight Cave at El Malpais National Park is named for the large opening in the roof. The cave is 600 feet ... More on PlanetWare

Mount Taylor is near Grants in the Cibola National Forest, peaking at 11,301 feet. There is road access ... More on PlanetWare

The Land of Fire and Ice is a combination of a volcano and an ice cave, both accessible by trails from the Trading Post, which is a sort of Visitors Center. The trails are wide and cinder paved. Ba... More on showcaves.com

What Lies Beneath: In the New Mexico Badlands, a path carved by lava leads visitors from the Bandera Volcano to a cave where temperatures never reach above 31 degrees Fahrenheit. The ice floor is 2... More on travelandleisure