This high-speed dash cam journey follows New Mexico’s High Road to Taos, passing through ancient Spanish land-grant villages, quiet mountain roads, and some of the most beautiful historic adobe churches in the Southwest. With the Sangre de Cristo mountains as a backdrop, the drive is a must-do if visiting New Mexico!

Many of the villages along the High Road to Taos began as Spanish land-grant settlements in the 1600s–1800s, when Spain (and later Mexico) granted land to families and communities to encourage settlement in what is now northern New Mexico. The original direct Spanish descendants live there today.

Our drive ends at Taos Pueblo, one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in North America. They speak the Traditional New Mexican Spanish. It’s a unique, 400 year old dialect only spoken in Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. It originated from the 16th century Spanish Settlers, Indigenous influences and subsequent isolation.

History unfolding through the windshield.