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Jornada del Muerto (1)

Jornada del Muerto (1) is a New Mexico historical marker in Doña Ana County.

I-25 -- mile marker 23 -- southbound rest area · location approximate

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This stretch of the Camino Real leaves the Rio Grande and cuts across 90 miles of desert with little water or shelter. Despite the challenges it presented, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo travelers between El Paso and the settlements in northern New Mexico heavily used the dreaded “Deadman's Journey.” On horseback, travelers could cross the Jornada in a few days, but people on foot accompanying ox-drawn carts or wagons could spend a week in transit.

The Historic Preservation Division notes that its marker spreadsheet may be out of date and in places inaccurate, and that it does not know where every marker now stands. These pages carry the spreadsheet’s record; a marker listed here may have moved or may no longer stand. the program’s page ↗

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San Diego Mountain, New Mexico, 1948, covering the location of Jornada del Muerto (1), with a pin at the marker's coordinates
San Diego Mountain, New Mexico, 1948, covering this location. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.
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Marker data: Official Scenic Historic Markers program, New Mexico Historic Preservation Division, Department of Cultural AffairsMarker texts come from the Division’s published marker spreadsheet, reproduced with the Division’s written permission. Where that spreadsheet records a coordinate, the pin is the Division’s own; where it records only a highway and mile marker, an address, a junction or a named place, or where its coordinate contradicts its own highway, mile and county, the pin is ours, resolved on public road and place data and marked approximate.

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