Where are the best road trip/day trip drives (as a driver) in New Mexico?

[kpl1228]

Originally Posted by Danbo1957

Anywhere in Otero County. Just beautiful... My favorite road trip is from Dell City, Texas to Cloudcrodt, to Ruidoso, around 246 to Roswell.

OP here. I'm a teacher with a week off in March for Spring Break. An eastern drive small-highways trip all the way to Dallas via this route might be a good solo road trip. Cheap hotels, an occasional beer at the end of each day's ride and talk to some locals at the bar while doing so, wind and scenery and tunes on the car CD player. Solo. Sounds like a good week to me.
There are times I really love living in NM, and this is one of them.

[80skeys]

Originally Posted by Poncho_NM

And what "forest roads" would that be that would require a better vehicle...

National forest roads in the mountains, or BLM roads in the desert. Pretty much all of them you're going to need 4-wheel drive.