road from chama new mexico to taos

Drove 64 last fall from Taos on our way to Durango pulling a 37' fifth wheel with no problems. Beautiful drive, good highway and no really steep mountains. I wish we had stopped in Chama. It looked like a nice place to visit.

We have made that route many times both East-west and West-east. Some beautiful scenery in the area nearer to Chama. We have stayed in both Chama and Taos many times. We were towing a 35' fifth-wheel, but you should have no trouble at all with the route.

Drove it last september towing a 37' 5th wheel, no problem.

padredw wrote:
We have made that route many times both East-west and West-east. Some beautiful scenery in the area nearer to Chama. We have stayed in both Chama and Taos many times. We were towing a 35' fifth-wheel, but you should have no trouble at all with the route.

There used to be a quaint comfortable campground in Chama, a couple blocks north of the train depot; is that still there? May be planning a trip down there this season.

As others have stated it is a good road with beautiful scenery. If you need a place to stay in Chama I would highly recommend Sky Mountain Mountain Resort. We stayed there for several days in the fall of 2012 and plan to go back.

Chama to Tres Piedras is beautiful but I went through there one spring trip in the 80s bumper deep in powder.

We stay in Santa Fe for a month every Summer and have made this drive in our toad, a Mustang convertible. We done it several times and love it and would not hesitate to drive our 39' Fleetwood Excursion towing a 24' enclosed Haulmark car carrier on this road. As a matter of fact, we may spend a few weeks in Taos next summer and drive this road, known as "The High Road To Taos" to get there. We have been on much more difficult grades than this. This is a piece of cake.

Do it.

Good road, so no problems there. The highway is remote between Tres Piedras and Tierra Amarilla, a good deal of which is just forest country. Because the highway is not used that often, it has low priority for snow plowing. THe usual precautions thus apply.
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Lynn

AZ, I'm sure you are familiar with this, but just to clarify for those not familiar with the area: The route from Taos to Chama is US 64, west out of Taos. "The High Road to Taos" is state highway 76 between Santa Fe and Taos. We have been traveling this road for many years.

On "The High Road" a stop at Chemayo is always part of our plan. We never get tired of visiting the Sanctuario and also lunch at Ranchos de Chemayo. We always stop at the villages of Trampas and Truchas. When we first started traveling this road the historic church at Trampas was always open, but that has changed in recent years. We have not towed our fifth-wheel on this road. I'm sure we could, but we were always staying in Santa Fe and this made a great day trip.

Sorry to leapfrog on this thread, but thought it was important to clarify the difference between the road from Taos to Chama and "The High Road."

Forgive any spelling mistakes in Spanish names.