Tells the story of the first European settlements of North America and the road that made it possible. Located 30 miles south of Socorro at Exit 115. The Tiwa pueblo of Kuaua once stood here on the banks of the Rio Grande near the site where the expedition of Spanish conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado camped in 1540. Located ten miles north of Albuquerque in Bernalillo. The ruins of Giusewa, an ancient Towa settlement near present-day Jémez Pueblo, are in a beautiful setting shared with San Jose de los Jémez, a 17th-century Spanish mission church. Located 43 miles north of Bernalillo and Coronado State Monument. In the 1860s, some 9,000 Navajo and several hundred Mescalero Apache people were interned here by the U.S. government at the site known as the Bosque Reservation. Located two miles east of the village of Fort Sumner on the Billy the Kid Road.

Once the home of young Douglas MacArthur, this adobe-brick fort was built in 1865 to protect settlements and today offers a glimpse of Army life on the frontier. The historic outpost was once home to cavalry units of Black troops nicknamed "Buffalo Soldiers." Located 13 miles north of Las Cruces at Radium Springs. This historic town is the site of the Lincoln County wars and Billy the Kid's escape in the late-1800s. Eleven adobe homes and buildings line the only street of now-peaceful Lincoln. Located 12 miles east of Capitan.

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