{"id":9912879,"date":"2011-12-08T10:05:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T17:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidjcorcoran.com\/highways\/wy\/wyroutes\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2012-03-06T11:05:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T18:05:53","slug":"u-s-route-62-nm-7-to-tx-state-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9912879","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Route 62, NM-7 to TX State Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/nm\/62\/7totx\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"804\" height=\"487\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-62 and SR-7, Eddy Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield after the Carlsbad Caverns turnoff<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/nm\/62\/7totx\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"722\" height=\"477\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-62 and CR 724, Eddy Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A couple miles later, turn left for CR 724. There is absolutely no reason for this to be a divided highway after the caverns- the stretch from here to El Paso is one of the most desolate drives in America<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/nm\/62\/7totx\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-62 and CR 418, Eddy Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">About a mile later, turn right for CR 418<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/nm\/62\/7totx\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"798\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-62 and CR 424, Eddy Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A few miles later, CR 424 will leave again<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/nm\/62\/7totx\/5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"821\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>US-62 at the Texas Line, Eddy Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield as we near the state line. Usually the road gets worse as you cross from Texas to New Mexico. In this case the opposite happens, but the Texans still have the right idea<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/nm\/62\/7totx\/6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-62 at the Texas Line, Eddy Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Welcome to Texas! Junction RM 652 is coming up in just a few feet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/us62.png\" alt=\"\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=9913235\">W to TX-RM652<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=9912878\">E to US-285<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/us180.png\" alt=\"\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=9912964\">W to TX-RM652<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=9912838\">E to US-285<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/newmexico7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/> W to Carlsbad Caverns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: US-62 and SR-7, Eddy Cty Reassurance shield after the Carlsbad Caverns turnoff Location: US-62 and CR 724, Eddy Cty A couple miles later, turn left for CR 724. There is absolutely no reason for this to be a divided highway after the caverns- the stretch from here to El Paso is one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9912879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9912879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9912879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9912879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9912879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}