Continental Divide, New Mexico: Continental Divide Marker
Official brown sign marks the dividing line. Facing the sign: right foot, water flows to Pacific. Left foot, water flows to Atlantic.
- Address:
- 3238 Wrangler Rd, Continental Divide, NM
- Directions:
- I-40 exit 47. Turn north, then east. Marker is across the street from the Phillips 66 gas station.
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Little shop just off the highways. There is a historical marker across the street from the shop in addition to the one in front of the shop.
[Heather, 11/01/2021]Exit currently closed for road work [4-10-16]. Will need to visit from another exit and take frontage roads.
[Melissa, 04/12/2016]
This sign is across the street from the Continental Divide Trading Post.
[Penny, 01/26/2015]Not much to see. Three different trading posts. One was closed. The one we went in was mostly cheap souvenirs. There is a beautiful view of the mountains, however.
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One thing every visitor to the Continental Divide Trading Post should do is to pose straddling the pavement in front of the Continental Divide sign, or at least splash a little liquid on the ground in front of it. See one-half flow toward the Atlantic, the other to the Pacific, we bet.