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Route 60 Guide to New Mexico and Arizona

© Buff Strickland A stretch of Route 60

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Route 60 is an obscure road that travels coast to coast, sometimes by its rightful designation, sometimes absorbed into newer highways. It runs roughly parallel to the better-known Route 66, but its vital signs are much stronger.

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Destinations: Arizona · New Mexico · Tucson · The Tucson Area

Themes: Adventure · Driving

Inspired by: A Route 60 Tour of New Mexico and Arizona — by Thomas Beller, Published Mar. 2008

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    Noftsger Hill Inn Bed & Breakfast

    A renovated schoolhouse, Inn-keepers Rosalie and Dom Ayala have left the old blackboards up in the former classrooms, which as guest quarters were ... More
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    Belle Aire Motel

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    Arizona Inn

    Here, just north of the university, 14 sublimely private and controlled acres deploy a succession of gardens crazed with flowers and trees, separat... More
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    Pie-O-Neer Pies

    This Pie Town establishment sells butterscotch, dutch apple crumb, New Mexico apple, cherry, peach, blueberry, (and on weekends:) banana cream, coc... More
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    Manzanares Street Coffeehouse

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    Daily Pie Cafe

    The diminutive pie shop is one of the prizes of Pie Town.

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    Very Large Array

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    Boyce Thompson Arboretum

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    Cobre Valley Center for the Arts

    The center consists of a gallery, music studios, crafts studios, and a community theater that recently staged the locally written production of Jus... More
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    Bosque Del Apache

    Eight miles off Interstate 25, Bosque del Apache is an oasis of dirt roads, meadows, and marshes. More
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    Blue Canyon Gallery

    Blue Canyon Gallery is the first place you reach driving into Magdalena from Socorro - the gallery, a house, and a kiln. In the shop one finds pott... More
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    Unlike in Florida—where training camps run down the Atlantic Coast, up the Gulf Coast, and 160 miles across a non-swampy inland stretch— in Arizona, seven of the nine ballparks are conveniently clo

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  • Driving Trip: Phoenix to Tubac, Arizona

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    Heading south from Phoenix brings you from barrel-cactus-dotted desert through the Oregon-like woods of Madera Canyon—and down to the Mexican border town of Tubac.

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    Who wouldn't leap at the chance to wear a cowboy hat and boots, swagger across a dusty corral, and tell an 800-pound horse where to go?There are hundreds of ranches around the country—some are work...

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