There are a handful of reasons you might drive U.S. Route 60, the scrub-edged, two-lane ribbon of sun-baked asphalt that bisects New Mexico from east to west. Sure, you might be a space nut ...

Continental Divide Trail, New Mexico. (Credit: U.S. Forest Service) NOTE: The southern terminus at Crazy Cook Monument may no longer be accessible due to it becoming a National Defense Area.

Or you might be an adventurer looking to hike a stretch of the Continental Divide and use US-60 to cross it. But you’d be missing, hands down, the most remarkable stop on Route 60 from Texas to ...

But a more historically filled-in version comes from Kathryn McKee-Roberts, who grew up in Pie Town and researched the story of the name herself. According to Mckee-Roberts, the first pie baker in Pie ...