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  • A New Look Inside Sitzmark

    A New Look Inside Sitzmark

    Sitzmark Sports & Lodge has acquired Crazy Mountain Sports, located in the Sitzmark building complex at 416 W. Main (Highway 38). As of October 15, Mark and Stephanie Martinez will operate the popular shop under the Sitzmark name. The store specializes in winter and summer clothing and accessories. Crazy Mountain founder Randy Lyles will continue…

  • A New Winery on West Main

    A New Winery on West Main

    It has taken Sheehan Winery over a year to make it to the high country, but the long-anticipated Grand Opening of their Red River tasting room in the Alpine Lodge complex was worth the wait. Now they’re looking forward to the winter on West Main Street. Maker of 35 different wines, 20 are open at…

  • Taos Mountain Outfitters

    Taos Mountain Outfitters

    All Who Wander, Inc is opening Taos Mountain Outfitters – Red River. It will be located at 121 E. Main Street. According to Bill Gaydosh, President, former Red River Marshal David Smith will manage the shop. Taos Mountain Outfitters has been headquartered in Taos for 51 years. It was purchased 4+ years ago by AWW,…

  • The BBQ Guy

    The BBQ Guy

    Tom Shirey was set to open a new restaurant in Golden, TX, “the Watermelon Capital of the Lone Star state” and the hometown of singer Kacey Musgraves. “I bought a little building there,” Tom remembers, “and we were going to be open a few nights a week and sell barbecue ribs and all-you-can-eat catfish. It’s…

  • Changes at RR RV Park

    Changes at RR RV Park

    George and Gloria Cooksey are the owners of Red River RV Park located on the bank of the river on the west end of town. George is no stranger to the valley. Growing up in Amarillo, he spent most of his boyhood summer months in Red River. His grandparents, the O’Neals, owned the Zuni Cabins…

  • Valley & Sky

    Valley & Sky

    A native of Birmingham AL, Chappell Stewart has been coming to Red River since she was in her teens because her family owned a condo at Eisenhut Condo. She is now a permanent resident and has begun a new business venture. It’s called Valley & Sky and it can be found online, as well as…

  • Rainbows and Echoes

    Rainbows and Echoes

    (Photo: The original Red River Ski Area Chalet burned in the 1960s and was replaced by the current Chalet. Notice the Poma lift at left. Photo courtesy Snappy Smith at Red River Dreams.) If you are a fan of Red River and the beautiful mountains that cradle this historic mining town that has become the…

  • Genuine Mountain Tales

    Genuine Mountain Tales

    Red River’s history is filled with tales of living in the high country during the winter months. From the early days when the town was founded in 1895 to the first 20 years of the 21st century, the stories are colorful and sometimes humorous accounts of survival and perseverance, testimonies to the rigors of life…

  • Red River Winter Living

    Red River Winter Living

    Following the end of WW II, the Tony and Tillie Simion took over management of the Monte Vista Lodge, a two-story log building a half a block from Tony’s saloon. Big Tony died of Black Lung at the Monte Vista in 1952. Tillie sold the hotel in 1958. In her book Tillie: An American Life…

  • A Great Red River Story

    A Great Red River Story

    The first skiers in Red River were mail carriers around the late 1890s. In winter months, they traveled overland across the mountains from Raton to Red River City and other gold camp destinations. Using hand-made wooden skis that measured ten to twelve feet long, which were used to keep the wearer from falling into snow-covered…