Las Cruces, New Mexico: World's Largest Chile Pepper
47-foot-long fire-engine-red pepper made of 2.5 tons of concrete. It's designed to entice travelers to notice this hotel rather than the ones lacking giant chiles.
Big Chile Inn
- Address:
- 2160 W. Picacho Ave., Las Cruces, NM
- Directions:
- Big Chile Inn. On the west edge of town, on the north side of US Hwy 70/W. Picacho Ave.
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
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The chile pepper is no longer gated. You can now go up and take as many photos as you like.
[Sarah, 05/03/2018]
World's Largest Chile Pepper: Pretty cool pepper!
[Marie Kelly, 03/11/2016]We actually stayed at this hotel. It's cheap and the owners are super nice. They have chile gardens in the courtyard and everything is chile-themed. Not your average "America's Best" motel.
[Amanda, 11/27/2014]
Largest chile pepper in the world! Is enclosed behind a gate.
[Hayden, 03/31/2012]Built in 2010-2011 by the owners of a motel who thought it would attract tourists to their neighborhood, and give Las Cruces an identity (The chile pepper is New Mexico's favorite crop). This 47-foot-long behemoth also establishes Las Cruces as a rival to Hatch, New Mexico, which claims to be Chile Capital of the World.
Even if the motel changes owners, the fire-engine-red pepper will probably stay; it's an Old School attraction, built of 5,000 pounds of concrete.
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The motel was taken over by new management, which knocked down the wall that had previously hidden the chile pepper, and renamed itself the Big Chile Inn.