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The Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, locally known as the "Gorge Bridge" or the "High Bridge", [2] is a steel deck arch bridge across the Rio Grande Gorge 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Taos, New Mexico, United States. Roughly 600 feet (180 m) above the Rio Grande, it is the seventh highest bridge in the United States. [3]
New Mexico State Road 68 (NM 68) is a 45.513-mile-long (73.246 km) state highway in northern New Mexico, in the Southwestern United States. NM 68 is known as the "River Road to Taos", as its route follows the Rio Grande. A parallel route to the east is NM 76, which is called the "High Road to Taos".
State Road 467 (NM 467) is a 16.8-mile-long (27.0 km) state highway in the US state of New Mexico. NM 467's southern terminus is at U.S. Route 70 (US 70) north of Portales, and the northern terminus is at US 60 and US 84 west of Clovis.
Oct. 28—Happy Monday. It's the last one in October. The New Mexico Department of Transportation is reminding people about work on another part of the Interstate 25 improvements project .
Mountain biking is permitted on designated trails and roads. Off-highway vehicles are permitted on designated roads. A number of paved highways cross the monument, including the Wild Rivers Backcountry Byway, New Mexico Highway 570, and U.S. Routes 64 and 285. Route 64 crosses the Rio Grande Gorge on the 660-foot (200 m) high Rio Grande Gorge ...
The new routing replaced all of New Mexico State Road 111 (NM 111) and NM 553 between Taos and Tierra Amarilla. US 64 now shared a concurrency with US 84 between Tierra Amarilla and a highway junction 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Monero. US 64 then replaced all of NM 17 between US 84 and US 550 in Farmington.
From 1927 to 1960, the section of I-10 between Road Forks and the Arizona state line was designated New Mexico State Road 14 (NM 14). Though it was only 5 miles (8 km) long, NM 14 and its Arizona counterpart, SR 86 , served as a direct bypass for US 80 between Road Forks and Benson, Arizona .
Rio Grande Gorge Bridge. Geologically, the Rio Grande Gorge is a canyon, [1] carved out by erosion over the last several million years. [2] The Rio Grande Gorge and its river follow a topographical low within the larger Rio Grande Rift; a mixture of volcanic activity, shifting tectonic plates, and erosion of layers of gravels and lava yielded the recognizable narrow, deep gorge visible today.