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Cyndi_H
Explorer
Sep 17, 2013

Getting to Alamogordo from the east with no mountains

In May we'll be going to Alamogordo, New Mexico from Lubbock, Texas, and do NOT want to take the highways that go through Cloudcroft or Ruidoso. Has anyone taken the 24 (Pinyon Dunkin Road) and the 5...
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paulj
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Sep 17, 2013
Cyndi H wrote:
... and do NOT want to take the highways that go through Cloudcroft or Ruidoso. ...


Why don't you want to go through Ruidoso? I haven't driven it, but my impression from other discussions is that this is an easy highway, 4 lane most of time. On the east side of those mountains you are already at 5000', and only climb to 7500' before gradually dropping to 4000'.

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