Days Inn - Alamogordo, NM

Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near New Mexico

While in New Mexico, you might enjoy a visit to:

Twenty feet tall, towers over the Basin Pipe and Metal salvage yard.
~3 miles from Alamogordo.

Smokey Bear was both a cartoon character and a real bear. Although a cartoon lives forever, the real bear died during the Bicentennial year and is buried here.
~50 miles from Alamogordo.

He stands in front of Big Daddy's Flea Market.
~58 miles from Alamogordo.

The exact spot where the world's first nuclear bomb exploded.
~62 miles from Alamogordo.

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