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Silver City, N.M. July 13-16

A highlight of this tour, by TyrannoTours, is the Fiesta de la Olla in Silver City, billed as the largest Mata Ortiz artisans event in the United States. 

Participants spend the first night at the Nature Conservancy Bear Mountain Lodge. The itinerary includes the Glenwood Catwalk, Gila Cliff Dwellings, museums, Pinos Altos, Silver City's 60 shops and galleries and the Fiesta de la Olla, which features Juan Quezada and up-and-coming potters of Mata Ortiz. Stop on the way at the Singing Wind Book Shop in Benson.

Cost, $495 per person based on double occupancy ($595 single occupancy), includes van transportation, breakfasts and one dinner at BML and all entrance fees.

Contact: 577-6546

4th of July, San Diego July 2-5

Pleasurebent Tours leads a three-night trip to San Diego that features the 58th Annual July 4th Independence Day Parade on Coronado Island's Orange Avenue, and watching fireworks on a San Diego Harbor Excursion boat.

The tour also includes a city tour, visit to the San Diego Zoo and a tour of the USS Midway.

Cost, $723 per person based on double occupancy ($948 single), includes round-trip motorcoach transportation, three nights' lodging and four meals.

Contact: 325-8839

Tutankhamen package, Chicago

● Now through Jan. 1

The Sofitel Chicago Water Tower has a vacation package that coincides with the "Tutankhamen and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" exhibit that opens May 26 at Chicago's Field Museum.  

The vacation package includes two VIP tickets to the exhibit, one night's lodging, continental breakfast and a book about Tutankhamen.

Cost starts at $475 per night and is subject to availability.

Contact: 1-312-324-4000

Cloudcroft, N.M.

The Lincoln National Forest may be largely closed to the public because of extreme fire danger, but the communities of Cloudcroft, Ruidoso, Mayhill, Sacramento, Weed, Timberon, Capitan and Queen remain open for business, the New Mexico Tourism Department wants you to know.

The Cloudcroft Chamber of Commerce, for example, recently announced there's no impact on events such as the 29th Annual Mayfair Juried Art Show in Zenith Park next weekend (May 27-28) and the Melodramas at the Open Air Pavilion (May 26-28).

Cloudcroft, at an elevation of 9,000 feet in the Sacramento Mountains, reaches an average high temperature of about 75 degrees in the summer. It's about a five-hour drive from Tucson, with a variety of lodging and shopping.

Federal authorities recently closed most of the forest, the birthplace of Smokey Bear, because of the fire danger caused by the dry, mild winter.

Contact: 1-505-682-2733 or www.cloudcroft.net online.