State roads in New Mexico, along with the
Interstate Highway System
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, and the
United States Numbered Highway System
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, fall under the jurisdiction of the
New Mexico Department of Transportation
The New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT; es, Departamento de Transporte de Nuevo México) is a state government organization which oversees transportation in New Mexico, State of New Mexico in the southwestern United States. The agency ...
(NMDOT). The U.S. state of New Mexico has 412
state roads, totaling that criss-cross the 33
counties
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
of the state.
[Total mileage is a summation of the mileages below.] Most highway numbers are one, two, or three digits long, however there are three highways that have four digit highway numbers. These highways are
New Mexico State Road 1113 (NM 1113),
NM 5001, and
NM 6563.
There are 26 state roads that are shorter than long in the state. The shortest,
NM 446, is a quarter-mile (402 m) long and serves to connect
Valmora to
NM 97.
, the second shortest highway, links
U.S. Route 160
U.S. Route 160 (US 160) is a 1,465 mile (2,358 km) long east–west United States highway in the Midwestern and Western United States. The western terminus of the route is at US 89 five miles (8 km) west of Tuba City, Arizo ...
(US 160) to the
Four Corners Monument, a tourist destination on the
Navajo Nation
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where the states of
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...
,
Arizona
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, New Mexico, and
Colorado
Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the wes ...
meet. In comparison, the longest state road in New Mexico is
NM 120, long, which is more than 475 times longer than the shortest state road.
Route log
See also
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Footnotes
References
External links
New Mexico Highways
{{US state highways
State Highways
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Transportation in New Mexico