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New Mexico State Road 38

state highway in Colfax and Taos counties in New Mexico, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ58409755 ↗
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State Road 38 (NM 38) is a state highway in Taos and Colfax counties in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Its total length is approximately 29.3 miles (47.2 km). It traverses the Sangre de Cristo Mountains through portions of Carson National Forest and Moreno Valley. NM 38's western terminus is at NM 522 in Questa, and the eastern terminus is at U.S. Route 64 in Eagle Nest. The highway passes through Bobcat Pass, the highest mountain pass in the state.

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“New Mexico State Road 38” enters the record as state highway in Colfax and Taos counties in New Mexico, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mexico, State and Road can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “New Mexico State Road 38” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.