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LA BAJADA HILL, BETWEEN SANTA FE AND ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO
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PUBLISHED BY STRONG'S BOOK STORE, ALBUQUERQUE, N.
LA BAJADA HILL, NEW MEXICO.
“La Bajada" is Spanish for "The Descent" or
"The Drop" and descent or drop it certainly is, for
it is a drop of about 800 feet from the rim of
: the mesa to the foot of the hill, which makes a
drop of about 1,000 feet to the lowland. The road,
one and
a half miles long, is one of the
vels of road building in America, for it is cut out
of volcanic lava in the face of an almost sheer pre-
cipice. It has 23 hair-pin turns, some of them
having a very steep grade. In spite of all this,
the road is perfectly safe, as all the turns are wid-
ened to accommodate the largest automobiles, and
those that might prove dangerous have stone re-
taining walls on the outside to prevent cars going
off the road and down the cliff. The trip up or
down La Bajada is always remembered by those
going to or from the Pacific Coast over the Ocean-
to-Ocean Highway.
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