Among the year-round and vacation homes for sale in Taos, the Solar Castle stands out. It sits on Tune Drive, a road exhibiting some of the most exuberant examples of green residential construction in the country. Earthships, straw bale homes, wind powered homes, adobe houses, houses with walls made from bottles and cans astound passers by with their novelty and innovation. Many are wholly or partially off-grid. There’s even a ridge top inn overlooking the trailhead to the famous Stagecoach hot springs that looks like nothing but a flying saucer! Taos Airport is located at the southern end of the road and the castle sits serenely, the grandest of all, at the northern end on the edge of the Rio Grande Gorge at its confluence with the Rio Hondo.

It's just a short drive on Hwy 64 north out of Taos five miles to Hwy 522. Continue north on Hwy 522 seven miles and turn left on B007. Travel west 2.5 miles and turn left at the house with a dome. This is Tune Drive and is not sign posted. 670 Tune Drive is the second driveway on the right.

Taos County, in northern New Mexico, is a popular vacation destination at the southern end of the Rocky Mountains. The local mountain range is known as the Sangre de Cristos because of the vivid red glow emanating from the slopes at sunset. Taos is famous as an artist community, as a place to watch celebrities, for its old Hispanic rural culture and for its even older native Pueblo Indian community. There’s some of the most challenging ski slopes in the Rocky Mountains, breathtaking views from just about anywhere and a rugged individualism that combines an old Wild West mentality with an alternative lifestyle attitude that survives from the Sixties and the earliest hippy communes that were established here. Sample the local cuisine and you’ll forego bland food forever. Sample the locally grown high-altitude marijuana and you’ll forget to leave.