Even the restaurant menu plays off the stars who have dined there. Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Mission, built in 1629, has murals of Zuni kachinas. The latter is not for the faint of heart. In several places, the trail is hard to find, and there are no railings offering protection from the sheer drops. The Ice Cave, seen by Spanish explorer Francisco Coronado in 1540, is part of a collapsed lava tube and has a year-round temperature of 31 degrees.
Icicles hang from the ceiling.
At the same stop is the Bandera Volcano, a cinder cone remaining from an eruption more than 5,000 years ago. Take Interstate 17 north to Flagstaff and I-40 east. The Visitors Bureau has pamphlets detailing day trips from the city to nearby Navajo country. Gallup has four distinct seasons. It can snow as early as Halloween.