Historic Route 66
Otero's 66 Service
In 1926, the Federal Highway Act pulled together a loose
transcontinental network of primitive roads and designated it “
Route 66.”
Originally it veered north to the state capital, Santa Fe, and dipped
south to Los Lunas before turning west to Gallup on its way to
California. Through this historic agricultural and mercantile village
traveled police pursuing the FBI’s “most wanted,” ambitious
transcontinental foot racers and impoverished Dust Bowl Refugees. By
1937, Route 66 was rerouted through Albuquerque on an east-west
alignment, bypassing Los Lunas.