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Virtual Tour....Mountainair &
Surrounding Area
 Other area sight in town or nearby include the NPS Visitors Center for the Salinas Pueblo Mission ruins, the historic Shaffer Hotel at Main & NM Hwy 55, Gordon McMath's metal "critters" on 3rd Street (parallel to Main) behind the Shaffer, and Rancho Bonito (another Pop Shaffer Wild Art architectural and design treat) on Hwy 55. |
Salinas Pueblo Missions
| Mountainair hosts the National Parks
Service's Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument and a destination
on the historic Salt
Missions Trail. Visit historic Abo, Quarai, and Gran Quivira
monuments. Walk in the footsteps of indigenous Pueblo peoples,
Conquistadors, and missionaries as you view the ruins of the original
Pueblos and the first Churches built over 350 years ago at New Mexico's
beginnings as a New World settlement. |
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Arts Tour (images from 2007 tour)
Trail ride in the Manzanos at Padilla Ranch
(505-847-0941)
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From the North, Albuquerque , you have two choices:
1. Go South on I-25 to the Mountainair/Bernardo exit. Go North on US. Highway 60, 45 miles straight into town.
OR ....
2. Go East on I-40 and exit at Tierjas, on highway 337 ( old 14 / 55 south ) and enjoy a spectacular ride over the Manzano Mountains, through the Peublos and Land Grant towns of Chilili, Torreon, and Manzano.
From Santa Fe:
See #1
OR ...
Take I-25 east, exit on 285. Watch for Galisteo exit and go South on Highway 41. Cross I-40 at Moriarity and continue on to US. Highway 60. Take the right hand side of the 'y' and head West to Mountainair, about 10 miles
From the South:
Take I-25 to the Bernardo / Mountainair exit. Go East on US. Highway 60 to Mountainair, 45 miles
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