New Mexico § 67-9-2 - El Camino Real; establishment; route

§ 67-9-2. El Camino Real; establishment; route

There is hereby established a public highway through the state of New Mexico, to be

known as “El Camino Real,” which said highway shall have for its northern terminus

a point in the Raton mountains on the state line between Colorado and New Mexico,

where the old Barlow and Sanderson stage road, known as the “Santa Fe Trail” crossed

the state line, running thence in a southerly direction and following the old Santa

Fe Trail as nearly as practicable through the city of Raton, the town of Cimarron,

to the village of Rayado; thence to the town of Ocate; thence to the town of Mora;

thence to the city of Las Vegas; thence following the route of the highway established

by Chapter 56 of the Session Laws of 1903, and known as the Scenic Route to Santa

Fe, the capital of the state of New Mexico; thence in a southerly direction via the

town of Cerrillos to San Pedro; thence to the city of Albuquerque by the most feasible

and picturesque route; thence south, crossing the Rio Grande at the town of Barelas,

through the counties of Bernalillo, Valencia and Socorro, through the towns of Los

Lunas, Belen, Socorro, San Antonio, San Marcial, to Engle; thence in a southerly

direction across the Jornado del Muerto to a point near old Fort Selden; thence in

a southerly direction, upon the high lands adjacent to the valley of the lower Rio

Grande, reaching the towns of Dona Ana, Las Cruces and Mesilla Park, to the place

known as Anthony, on the state line between the state of New Mexico and the state

of Texas.