Route 66 West of Tucumcari:
Montoya and Newkirk


	Leaving Tucumcari headed westbound, you have no choice but to hop onto I-40 between exits 329 and 321. A remnant of the old road exists on the north side of the highway, but it's a dead end. From exit 321 west, you can travel the frontage roads, so long as you're not driving a big RV.

The frontage roads west of Tucumcari provide a slow, but authentic alternative to Interstate 40. As a reward for squeezing through a couple of tight underpass tunnels...

... you can explore the ruins of old roadside businesses like this one.

Okay, don't explore too much. It wouldn't be fun to fall through that floor into the basement.

A little further down the road, Richardson's Store has an old canopy over the fuel pump area that's slowly giving way. The pumps are gone, and now a fence stands around the property.

There are more old gas stations and abandoned buildings in the next town, at Newkirk.


	I was starting to be overwhelmed by one old building after another, so I didn't stop in Newkirk. You can find some great pictures and history on Newkirk's old businesses at theroadwanderer.net.

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