Clines Corners

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We’ve been welcoming highway travelers since 1934, when Roy E. Cline established a roadside filling station and café in the open country between Santa Rosa and Moriarty. When Route 66 was realigned in 1937, Cline moved his business to the new junction of the Mother Road and U.S. 285, creating the crossroads that became known as Clines Corners. The location proved ideal for travelers crossing central New Mexico, and over the decades the small roadside stop grew into one of the region’s most recognizable highway landmarks. Vintage signs and postcards helped spread the Clines Corners name far beyond this isolated stretch of high desert, while generations of road trippers came to know it as a dependable place to fuel up, eat and take a break from the road.

Today, our sprawling travel center continues that tradition beside the former Route 66 corridor at I-40 and U.S. 285. Inside, travelers can browse a large selection of New Mexico and Route 66 souvenirs, Southwestern gifts, apparel, candy and road-trip essentials, while the surrounding complex provides fuel, food and services for motorists, truckers and RV travelers. New Mexico Tourism describes the present retail and restaurant operation as roughly 30,000 square feet, a remarkable evolution from Cline’s original roadside station. Whether you’re hunting for a Mother Road keepsake, stretching your legs beneath the familiar Clines Corners sign or simply breaking up a long drive across New Mexico’s high plains, we remain much what we have been for generations: a roadside oasis built around the needs of travelers.

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