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1 Hudson Bend → Big Spring → Cloudcroft
Fri Sep 4 · ~600 mi · ~10 h · leg 1 of 4
Lance · Path. Order. Direction. Focus.
US-183 N → Lampasas → US-190 → Brady → US-87 → San Angelo → Big Spring; then US-87 → Lamesa → US-180 → Seminole → Hobbs NM → US-82 → Artesia → US-82 W (Mayhill) → Cloudcroft
Checkpoints
- 1 Hudson Bend (home) Home — origin · America/Chicago · approximate arrived Sat Sep 5 · 1:44 PM CDT
- 2 Big Spring, TX Waypoint — via Big Spring · America/Chicago arrived Sat Sep 5 · 1:44 PM CDT
- 3 Cloudcroft, NM Night 1 — before dark · America/Denver · approximate arrived Fri Sep 4 · 7:06 PM MDT
Candidate stops
Suggestions, not commitments.
- SIGHT Big Spring State Park — Scenic Mountain loop — the overlook above the town; 10-min drive-through
- SIGHT Comanche Trail Park + the spring — the actual 'big spring', small lake, easy leg-stretch
- SIGHT Artesia, NM — Main Street bronzes — cute little town candidate; last real town before the climb to Cloudcroft
- SIGHT Cloudcroft village + Mexican Canyon Trestle — 9,000 ft, the evening walk if there is light left
On this leg
New Mexico
Oil
Hunters huts
Shoes for the road