Help! Santa Fe/Taos or Portland in late October

Can’t decide! We live in Los Angeles and have been Portland, but this time we will have our two teens and our 1.5 yr old.

We love food and outdoors/hiking. Portland is where the kids want to go, but I’m worried about it being wet/rainy which will be annoying with a baby who wants to walk or a stroller that will be wet.

Santa Fe seems nice, but I’m worried the big kids will be bored and limited with food-they love to eat but they both don’t eat beans or cheese (why?????).

But the mountains/hikes seem so pretty near Taos and we would be able to catch the balloon rally (is it worth it?)

Torn because my teen daughter has always wanted to explore Portland…ugh

Please help me decide!

Author: irisamelia