Page 191 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - Southwest USA & National Parks

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Getting Around
New Mexico has two major Interstate Highways, I-25 and
I-40, which cross each other in Albuquerque. Interstate 25
cuts north into Colorado and south into Mexico. Interstate SANTA FE AND
NORTHERN
40 cuts east to west, into Texas and Arizona respectively. To NEW MEXICO
the south, Interstate 10 connects the city of Las Cruces with
Arizona. Albuquerque airport is New Mexico’s main hub for ALBUQUERQUE
AND SOUTHERN
both international and domestic flights. Greyhound buses NEW MEXICO
run between Albuquerque and several major US cities.
Costilla
Chama Raton
Tierra Questa
Amarilla Wheeler Peak
4011m Cimarron
Taos Pueblo Clayton
Abiquiu Taos Turkey Springer
Lake Ranchos Kiowa
de Taos Mountains
Abiquiu Dixon National
Chimayó Ocate Grasslands
Espanola Truchas Peak Wagon Roy
Los Alamos 3993m Mound
Jemez Springs Pojoaque Sang r e de Cr isto Mosquero Ute Creek
Santa Fe Pecos Mountains
Jemez Pueblo National Nara Visa
Historic Las Vegas
Gallup Kewa Pueblo Park Conchas Lake Canadian River
Thoreau Mount Taylor San Felipe Ute
3445m
Zuni Rio Rancho Pueblo Conchas Dam Reservoir
Bernalillo
Mountains Milan Grants Alameda Anton Chico Tucumcari
Laguna Albuquerque
San Rafael Pecos River
Zuni
Isleta Pueblo
Acoma Moriarty Santa Rosa
Pueblo Los Manzano
Lunas Mountains Grady
Lake
Belen Willard Vaughn Sumner
Ladron Peak Manzano Fort Sumner Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings at Bandelier National
Rio Puerco
2797m Melrose Clovis
Rio Salado
Madre Mount Peak Mountainair Monument (see p204)
Quemado 2913m 3078m Yeso Texico
Mountains
Gallo Alegres Magdalena Los Pinos Corona Portales
Mountains Mountain NEW MEXICO
3118m South Baldy Socorro Elida
Lincoln
Tularosa Mountains Plains of San Agustin 3287m San Antonio National Pecos River
Mount
Withington
Reserve 3083m F or est
Eagle Peak Rio Grande Carrizozo Capitan Peak
2983m Capitan
Whitewater 3073m
Baldy Gila Cliff Sierra Lincoln Roswell
3321m Black Range
Dwellings Blanca
National Elephant Butte Peak Ruidoso
Monument Reservoir Jornada del Muerto 3649m Dexter Tatum
T u l a r o s a Va l l e y
Truth or Consequences Tularosa Sacramento Hagerman
Mogollon
Mountains
Hillsboro White Alamo- Cloudcroft
gordo
Sands Artesia Lovington
Silver City Central San Andres Mountains National Mayhill
Monument Mountains Hobbs
Mimbres
Hurley Hatch Lake
McMillan
Mountains
Cookes Peak Eunice
Lordsburg 2563m Guadalupe Carlsbad
Las Cruces Organ Orogrande Mountains Carlsbad
Peak Loving
Pyramid Deming Mesilla 2704m Wind Caverns Malaga
National
Mountains Florida La Mountain Monument Jal
2219m
Animas Mountains Mesa Anthony
Animas Valley Playas Columbus Canutillo
Lake
El Paso
Animas Peak Big Hatchet Soaptree yucca plant growing among the dunes at White
Peak
2597m 2550m Sands National Monument (see p227)
For hotels and restaurants see pp241–2 and pp258–9
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