New Mexico
Borderlanders – Staked Plains
1. Tucumcari (Quay County)
Tucumcari: Blue Swallow Motel
El Norte – Upper Rio Grande
2. Santa Rosa (Guadalupe County)
Santa Rosa: Blue Hole and Silver Moon Cafe
3. Santa Fe (Santa Fe County)
Santa Fe: Santa Fe Plaza, Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, Palace of Governors and New Mexico History Museum, Canyon Road Arts District, Loretto Chapel, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, etc.
4. Clines Corners & Moriarty (Torrance County)
Clines Corners: Roy Cline Service Station
Moriarty: Whiting Bros. Gas Station, Sunset Motel, and the Lewis Antique Auto & Toy Museum
Southwest Tribes
5. Albuquerque (Bernalillo County) & Petroglyphs
Albuquerque: Central Avenue’s many Historic U.S. Route 66 sites
6. Mesita (Eastern Cibola County) & Laguna Pueblo
Mesita: Owl Rock and Deadman’s Curve
7. Grants (Western Cibola County) & Acoma Pueblo
Grants: Sands Motel and New Mexico Mining Museum
8. Gallup (McKinley County) & Diné (Navajo Nation)
Continental Divide
Gallup: El Rancho Hotel
Next state going west: Arizona portion of old Route 66
Old Route 66, heading from east to west: