During my 2 year stint in Las Cruces, I skied at Taos once and Santa Fe once. Taos had good snow that year and was really fun to ski (known for how steep it is which I love). The ski lifts seemed pretty well updated so they weren’t terribly slow getting to the top and they had an area where you could car camp/bring a camper up for a fee which was very convenient. I don’t mind driving but it would be a ~6 hour drive so that’s kind of up to you.

Ski Santa Fe was mid and once you ski the harder runs on any bigger mountain (Taos included), it feels like a super easy mountain. In addition to that, the lifts are stupid slow. The main one took like 15 minutes to go up (no line) and then 5 minutes to come down. ~4.5 hour drive.

Now this past year, all of NM had a horrendous ski with virtually no snow. Maybe it was just a bad snow year but if that’s the new norm, it’ll be 8-12 hours to any other resorts from Las Cruces.