The tour will be the second weekend in August, Sat. 8 and -Sun. 9, The fee to register is still $60, half the price of all other area art tours.

Our team is already working hard to publicize this event throughout the Southwest. Your name, your work, and where to find you will be included on 3,000 glossy map-brochures distributed around northern New Mexico, plus you will be highlighted in our social media, and represented in our final local advertising only if you get your application to us by May 10th.

That glossy map-brochure takes time to layout, design and get to the printers, then distribute once we have it in hand!
New this year, we have an online application form that will expedite this for you, where you can also upload your images all in one place. Find this and more information at https://questacreative.org/questa-art-tour/. (Hard copy applications are available at Rael’s Market.)

May is also the time to start looking our best for summer visitors, the 800 who come through town for the art tour, and others attracted to Questa’s growing reputation for fishing, hiking, and scenic driving around our national monument. And for appreciating our culture.

One of the first needs identified after the mine closed, was a way to celebrate our unique local culture and history. Our team responded by developing the Questa History Trail. We worked hard securing grants and support from the Forest Service, the Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area, and the New Mexico Humanities Council. We gained feedback from members of our village, and permissions for the trail route, and spent more time sourcing oral histories and accurate research to inform our interpretive signage and our deep, thorough website.

Enthusiasm was so great that we thought we’d have no trouble maintaining the trail. But in the 8 years since, the same two lead creators have been the only ones pulling weeds and cutting the grass around our signs. (With one-time help from a willing and burly volunteer, thank you, Mark!) And, we are very appreciative of the Village staff who cut the grass around our final 2 signs along the highway!

We really need this valuable village asset to gain some helpful angels. Many of us walk or drive by the 8 interpretive signs and if we could notice when the weeds need cutting, then just stop and help out, that would be a game changer!

Do you value our truly unique history and culture? Do you want visitors to be made aware of how special our village is? Can you be a History Trail angel? (no need to ask us, or form a committee, just do it, one time, weekly, two times, We will appreciate any support you give!)

Now is a great time to get out and walk the trail before the weather stays too hot to enjoy yourself. You can read all about it, and explore the deeply-researched pages that cover many topics of Questa’s past at https://questacreative.org/questa-history-trail/.