Eagle Nest — Turn Right onto US 64

Second navigational moment, and this one is easy to miss because the village is small and you are looking at the lake.

In Eagle Nest, State Road Thirty-Eight ends at US Highway Sixty-Four. **You want to turn RIGHT onto US Sixty-Four, signed for Angel Fire and Taos.**

If you turn LEFT instead you will head east toward Cimarron and the Cimarron Canyon — which is a gorgeous drive in its own right, and if you have a spare hour it is genuinely worth doing as an out-and-back. But it is not the circle, and it will take you away from us.

So: right onto Sixty-Four, toward Angel Fire.

This is also your last good fuel and food stop for a while. Eagle Nest has both, and Angel Fire is a resort — which means excellent restaurants at resort prices, some of which keep resort hours.

Once you are on Sixty-Four, you will run south down the Moreno Valley with the lake behind you and the Sangre de Cristo on your right — and about eight miles down, on the hillside to your right, you will see something white that I want you to be ready for.

Make the right turn onto Sixty-Four.