Angel Fire New Mexico Advice

I recommend you drive half an hour north of Angel Fire and head to Red River. There's literally nothing else to do at Angel Fire other than ski. They do have a hill for tubing though. Just got back from there mid January and we went up to Red River Sleds and did the tour. Highly recommend it.

I was in Red River and Angel Fire a few weeks ago. The snow sucks, they are having an abysmal year, 1/3 of each mountain was closed and what was open was not good.

I have nothing to add other than Vine in Red River has great breakfast and donuts.

This is our first ski vacation so never been to a big or small town. Thanks for the advice and I’ll be sure to check it all out. Guess we will also have to make the trek to Red River one day we are not skiing


Also see that AF is supposed to be getting a few inches of snow today and tomorrow, but nothing next 14 days with highs in the fifties. Hopefully there’s some left

Talking to the locals in Red River they haven't had a good snowfall since late November. There's more snow north up there than there is around Angel Fire.

The sledding area is at Angel Fire Country Club. It is the driving range for the golf course in the summer. I don't think it's been open this season due to lack of snow. Your 5 and 8 year old kids will like the skiing at Angel Fire. If they have to have lessons then the ski school is small enough that they will get good instruction and the ski school area has plenty of snow. Almost all of the green runs are open and more than half of the blue runs are open as well as the area where they can do jumps. All of the lifts are open too. The resort has a website with web cams at several locations. You should check those out. El Jefe is a restaurant that overlooks the ski mountain from the base just across the road from the main ski lift. It's a great place to have a drink and/or eat really good Mexican food and hamburgers. Angel Fired Pizza is really good. The country club restaurants are open to the public and very good. Mizuno Grill is really good for a drink and latin food. We've never done the snow mobile tours there.

Angel Fire is a great place for new skiers. I’ve been told that it has the longest green run in the Country. Taos is very technical. Great resort and more of a ski town like Vail, but not as fancy. The area around AF, RR and Taos is amazing… the big drawback is that it’s hard to get to.