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id: "2163"
name: Mesalands Scenic Byway
distance: "320"
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websites: 
  - url: "http://www.newmexico.org/parks-and-byways/#article75714"
    name: Mesalands Scenic Byway
designations: 
  - "New Mexico Scenic & Historic Byway"
states: 
  - NM
ll: 
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  - 34.97355454545455
bounds: 
  - - -104.99127272727273
    - 34.60244400000005
  - - -103.33097272727272
    - 35.37410299999999

---

In eastern New Mexico, this complex byway loops on several roads around I-40. It passes through Santa Rosa, dips down to Puerto, figure-eights around Ragland, Tucumcare, Conchas, Newkirk, Wheatland, San Jose, and Logan, and terminates at Glenrio.