Hobbies is located between Tijeras and San Antonio on a dirt road to the west of Highway 14.

Today Hobbies is a rustic trailer park but in 1918, as the “white plague” of tuberculosis devastated America, TB Camps opened up in the East Mountains to allow TB victims a chance to heal among fresh air and sunshine.  By 1951 the original camp had been sold to Charlie and Shirley Hobbie who fixed up the cabins and christened it Hobbie’s Mountain Ranch, just "Hobbies".

This mountain village is located west of Highway 14 on Cañoncito Road (down Lorenzo Canyon) between San Antonito and Sandia Crest and has been an active community since the 1870's.  A petition for land filled in 1826  referred to the site of Cañoncito as El Cañoncito de Nuanes (“the little canyon of Nuanes”).  Over time this tiny farming and woodcutting settlement gained two short-lived dance halls, a church, a gypsum mine, a flagstone quarry, and lost the bulk of its name.

Casa Loma is located just down the canyon beyond Cañoncito.

The San Lorenzo Church is also located in Cañoncito.

La Madera is a residential community, west of Highway 14 on La Madera Road (the East Mountain High School turn off), which is north of San Antonito.

La Madera's history is rooted in logging in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains, which remained into the 1960s.  La Madera is Spanish for "woods".

Agua is located 2.8 miles south of Golden.

Originally the village of Agua was part of the San Pedro Land Grant.  Oral history, claims the name was taken for a nearby spring.   Today the settlement along Highway 14 has several home sites.

Puertecito Road starts in Agua and is how you access the village of Puertecito and ghost towns of Hagan and Coyote.

Puertecito is a small remote village, 4 miles west of Highway 14 on Puertecito Road, on a dirt road.  The turnoff (Puertecito Road) is located 2.8 miles south of Golden.  Most residents live a simple life off the grid.

San Pedro is located on Highway 344, just east of Highway 14.  Today it's a remote residential community where folks enjoy large lots and wonderful scenery.

Its beginnings date back to 1846, when gold was discovered in the near by San Pedro Mountains.  The original town-site had a general store, hotel and multiple saloons. When the gold played out, mining turned to copper and then back to gold in 1897.  Mining continued until the early 1900's.

San Marcos is currently a bedroom community of Santa Fe in the Galisteo Basin.

The 17th century mission of the Tano Indians was abandoned after the pueblo revolt.  It was part of the Spanish Land Grant (San Marcos Pueblo grant) of 1754.  The land was used to pasture for royal horse herds for the Santé Fe presidio.  American Museum of Natural History performed "Test Excavation" 1999-2001 to study church ruins.

See New Mexico Office of the State Historian for more details.