10 Private Adobe Rooms Our funky, eclectically decorated rooms burst with the quirky magic of Old Historic Taos. Each room is different, offering a wide choice of accommodations and prices. We offer unique and comfortable sun-warmed rooms with lofts or four-poster beds resting beneath massive viga-beamed ceilings. Bathrooms, like the ambiance, are shared. Breakfast is included. The Penthouse For the guest with something special in mind, we have a spacious passive-solar heated A-frame perched atop our old adobe, offering a picturesque view of our lofty Elm and Cottonwood trees. It features a master bedroom, a private bath and separate shower, sunny living room complete with audio and video systems, a large-screen TV, wood stove and a sunny deck. This charming room will sleep six people in three beds. A great place for families and small groups. And, of course, a tasty breakfast is included. Pet-Friendly Children-Friendly. We love pets, and we have some of our own. All we ask is that they (and you) be well mannered and that you clean up after them. If you're allergic to animals, you can stay in our pet-free room. Oh, yes, children. We love them and we have them. And guests' children love the Laughing Horse. If you want to escape children, we'll gladly refer you to inns that aren't so family-oriented. The Kitchen A great gathering place is the table in the sunny corner of our 119-year-old kitchen (until six years ago it still had the original adobe floor). Sit on the wooden bancos, lean against the sun-warmed 2-foot-thick adobe walls and chat with your fellow guests from around the world. We don't pressure you to socialize; it just happens. Many lasting friendships have been born in this corner. While in the kitchen, help yourself to our continental breakfast of fresh-baked pastries, whole-grain cereals, bagels, fresh fruit and juices, yogurt, eggs, rich coffee and tea. Feel free to raid the cupboards and the fridge. Everything here is on the honor system. If you crave a midnight bowl of cereal, just help yourself and jot it down on the list on the door of the fridge. You're also welcome to cook any of your own meals. The kitchen is completely stocked with pots, pans, plates and silverware. Recreation Taos is a great area for hiking and mountain biking, and there are many and country roads. Taos has several where you can rent a bike for the day. We also have maps of many good hiking and biking trails, and our knowledgeable innkeepers can give you up-to-the-minute reports from the trails they've just hiked. If you prefer your recreation indoors, we have an eclectic collection of about 500 movies, free for your enjoyment. Every room has a cable television and a VCR. We're in the process of adding DVD players to all of the rooms and we are building our DVD library, as well. We also have wireless internet access. Because of our thick adobe walls, it doesn't transmit to all of the rooms, but it works great in the living room and kitchen. So, feel free to grab a cup of hot tea and your laptop and settle in at the kitchen table or on the couch in front of the fireplace in the living room to catch up on all of your correspondence. In the wintertime, Taos is a skier's paradise. We have some of the driest champagne powder in the world, thanks to our alpine elevations and dry desert air. is one of the most challenging ski resorts in the country, and it has plenty of spectacular beginner and intermediate runs that will never bore you. Snowboarders and skiers have their choice of other nearby resorts, including

The People Behind the Scene William Willard Spud Johnson came to Taos in 1924 with his magazine and his hand letter press to join his new-found friends, D.H. Lawrence, Mabel Dodge, Dorothy Brett, and others. Lawrence left shortly thereafter but Spud remained here where he was always at the center of what made Taos a special cultural milieu. Called the intellectual conscience of Taos by Taos historians, he was also the quintessential Taos character. He saved for years to add a bathroom to his adobe, then blew the wad on a trip to Paris. When he finally built the bath, he put it in his garden and never constructed an exterior wall between the bath and the flowers. The Magazine The Laughing Horse was a literary sporadical, 21 issues published over 18 years, when Spud felt like it. He stopped its publication in 1939, silent to his dying day as to why it was never resurrected. It started as a learned barb against the faculty and administration at UC Berkeley and Spud came to Santa Fe in 1922 to visit Witter Bynner and meet D.H. Lawrence. He sent back to his publishing cohorts a book review by Lawrence that Berkeley readers found offensive--Spud and the others were brought up on (but acquitted of) obscenity charges and expelled from the University. For the remainder of its days, the Laughing Horse was famous for its stand against censorship and bombast. Spud's home for forty-five years was originally built in 1887, a three-room traditional adobe with softly curved bancos and nichos and earthen floors cured with ox blood. Spud used the bedroom as his print shop and library, sleeping in the living room until he added a bedroom area between the original house and its tool shed. Spud probably would have been satisfied with the living room; the bedroom was added, as much as for any reason, to accommodate Spud's most regular visitor, Georgia O'Keeffe. The Hippies took over after Spud passed on, and four of our rooms as well as our Penthouse are passive solar structures added in the early 70's by Mike Reynolds, the now-famous Earthship architect.

Historic Bed Breakfast Taos, New Mexico. History of the Laughing Horse. Relax and mellow out within the 119 year-old adobe walls of our Taos Spanish hacienda. Feel the calming energy of this oasis of Old Taos charm and magic. The Laughing Horse Inn is perhaps unique in all the world. We defy you to find another place quite like this. Frommer's says you should not miss the Laughing Horse BB. The Rocky Mountain News says (accurately) that it's for people who have a sense of humor about lodging and life. (Our great staff would say a sense of humor is necessary to work here, too.). There's hardly a straight line, and few square, crisp corners, in the whole house. It's hard to do in a place with two-foot-thick adobe walls. Instead of crackerbox-motel squareness, this historic New Mexico bed and breakfast blooms with the curved and rounded shapes of Mother Earth. Our 10 eclectic rooms share three bathrooms, as you experienced travelers have encountered in European pensiones. (We also have a suite with a private bath.) Some of our rooms were even crafted by the Taos hippie carpenters of the early 70's. Our warm and welcoming Spanish hacienda was built on the north edge of Taos in 1887 on the bank of the Rio Pueblo, the sacred river of the Taos Pueblo Indians. Our property still backs up to Pueblo lands.