New Mexico. New Mexico is located in the heart of the U.S. Southwest. It is situated along the Mexican border sandwiched between Texas and Arizona with Colorado to its north. It is a land of beautiful scenery and is the country of cowboys and Indians.
The Rocky Mountain cordillera extends southward through the state of New Mexico with the San Juan mountain range and the Sangre de Christo range in the north and several other ranges stretching southward. The Rio Grande river begins in the northern mountains and wends its way southward across the state until it reaches the Mexican and Texan borders at El Paso Texas. This river valley provides a riparian highway of green across the otherwise arid upland plateaus.
New Mexico has some beautiful landscape with a wide variety of strange and wonderful geological features. It has high elevation deserts and plateaus surrounded by barren mountains, peculiarly eroded rock pinnacles and volcanic cinder cones. It has high prairies that extend from horizon to horizon with extensive plains of sparse grass intermittently punctuated by low shrubs, squat piñon pines and massive citadels of flat-topped mesas. It has ranges of lofty mountains with snow capped peaks, dense pine forests and cascading mountain streams.
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Route 25 bisects the state from north to south. It enters through the northern mountains at the Colorado border, then joins the Rio Grande valley and follows it south to El Paso, Texas. Route 40 bisects the state from east to west from Texas to Arizona. It roughly follows the original path of old Route 66 and remnants of the “mother road” still run parallel to the new highway. These two major thruways intersect in downtown Albuquerque, the largest city in the state.
The Rio Grande Valley has been a highway of life in this somewhat barren landscape for several millennia. Ancient Anasazi ruins and Petroglyph drawings are still visible in many parts of New Mexico. Petroglyph National Park, on rock bluffs overlooking the Rio Grande River at the outskirts of present day Albuquerque, displays thousands of ancient drawings. The ruins of ancient villages and cliff houses can be seen at Bandelier National Monument in the mountains near Los Alamos and at the Chaco Culture National Historic Park in the northwest part of the state.
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