NM SB15 – Route 66 Natl Scenic Byway Traditional Cache

New Mexico is home to 25 magnificent scenic byways, totaling over 2,900 miles across a diverse landscape. The U.S. Secretary of Transportation recognizes these designated roads based on one or more intrinsic qualities — archaeological, cultural, historic, natural, recreational, or scenic.

This is a desert environment so please be careful of the flora and fauna that live here and the trash people leave along the road.

The legendary Route 66 Scenic Byway enters New Mexico from Texas across a vast, sunlit prairie and crisscrosses I-40 in a ribbon of time, dropping in and out among warp-speed semis and SUVs into a two-lane highway that meanders through rocky outcrops, quiet streams and adobe villages.  Parts of the byway disappear beneath cow pastures or the interstate, and the effect is startling – an instantaneous shift from the manic present to a not-so-distant time at once hip and innocent.  Along the way, the high desert landscape is both austere and sublime, its red-hued cliffs dropping off into immense llanos or pine-wooded hills and valleys.

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