Angel Fire sits in the Moreno Valley of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains at around 8,380 feet, about 25 miles east of Taos - a mountain resort community whose clear high-altitude light and dramatic surrounding peaks have made it a quiet refuge for artists, writers, and craftspeople who want the creative environment of the Taos area without the tourist crowds. The valley's history spans Jicarilla Apache and Ute seasonal use, Spanish land grant settlement, and late-20th-century ski resort development, and the landscape - open meadows ringed by forested mountains - carries that layered past in its light and its silence. The community supports a small but distinctive arts scene, most notably the extraordinary outdoor installation space What?Ville, and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial State Park, whose striking chapel designed by Victor Westphall is one of the most moving pieces of memorial architecture in the American West.
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