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About Route 66 and New Mexico
Why New Mexico stands out
- Mix of desert scenery + historic towns
- Strong Native American and Spanis influence
- Unique look (adobe buildings, neon, mesas)
Tucumcari & Eastern New Mexico
- Blue Swallow Motel, Safari Motel
- Trading post, Tepee curios gas station, R66 museum
Albuquerque
- Tinker town in Sandia Park which is a crazy miniatures museum
- The longest urban stretch of Route 66 anywhere
- Central Avenue is packed with neon signs, motels, and diners
Las Vegas NM and Santa Fe (original Route 66 detour)
- Indian pueblo museum
Blue Hole (Santa Rosa)
- Natural crystal-clear swimming hole in the desert
Gallup (Native American culture)
- El Rancho hotel, Chief Yellow Head trading post
Hello
The evolving New Mexico Gallery
This gallery will evolve over time, I hope you come back and visit it over the next few months as more photos and videos are added. If you'd like to know when that happens send me a message - contact button below
Favorite images and videos from New Mexico
Our immediate thoughts on Route 66 in New Mexico
Good things
You can only do so much research before you set out on a journey like travelling the entirety of Route 66. We are setting out with a list of things we want to see, but much of the success of these things is the opportunity to trip over some great surprises, and hopefully they are good surprises.
Not so good things
Every trip has some things that don't go as anticipated, and some of those are things that you really can't change - we will no doubt encounter some of those, and will leave a note on this site of what those were.
What you have to see when you do this
Everyone has favorite things in travel, and we will share ours and perhaps they will be your favorite things too.