New Mexico State Road 2

State Road 2
NM 2 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by NMDOT
Length	32.859 mi (52.881 km)
Major junctions
South end	US 285 near Artesia
Major intersections	NM 249 in Hagerman NM 256 near Roswell
North end	US 285 near Roswell
Location
Country	United States
State	New Mexico
Counties	Eddy, Chaves
Highway system
New Mexico State Highway System Interstate US State Scenic
← NM 1 → NM 3

New Mexico State Road 2 (NM 2) is a state highway in the state of New Mexico. It travels southeast from U.S. Route 285 (US 285), outside of Roswell, New Mexico, passing through Midway. While in Dexter, it turns right as Old Dexter Highway and passes through Greenfield, Hagerman, and Lake Arthur, before ending back at US 285.

History

1926 specification shield for Route 2 and later State Road 2.

Later shield for NM 2, until its replacement by US 285 in the mid 1930s.

Prior to 1927, the Route 2 designation had been applied to a highway from the Texas state line near Carlsbad to Route 1 in Santa Fe. After 1927, State Road 2 ran from the Texas line southeast of Malaga to the Colorado border northeast of Chama. This newer routing replaced the original Route 8 between Santa Fe and Española and Route 36 from Española to Colorado. NM 2 was approximately 425 miles long. In the mid 1930s, it was decommissioned and replaced by US 285. In the early 1950s, US 285 was rerouted south of Roswell. NM 2 was recommissioned along the older routing. US 285 was rerouted again between Roswell and Artesia in the mid 1960s. The older routing was at first designated US 285 Alternate, but was renumbered as an extension of NM 2 by the 1970s. Part of the original US 285 re-alignment south of Roswell was cut off by the mid 1960s extension north of Artesia. This cutoff became a spur of NM 2. During the 1988 Renumbering, NM 2 was truncated. The route north of the spur was renumbered as NM 256 and mainline NM 2 was extended over the spur.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
Eddy	​	0.000	0.000	US 285 (Roswell Highway) – Artesia, Roswell	Southern terminus
	​	5.993	9.645	NM 438 west (East Pearson Road)	Eastern terminus of NM 438
Chaves	Lake Arthur	8.822	14.198	Eleventh Street	Western terminus of former NM 507
	​	9.097	14.640	Pueblo Road	Eastern terminus of former NM 557
	Hagerman	16.412	26.413	East Morgan Street	Eastern terminus of former NM 558
		16.663	26.816	NM 249 east (East Aberdeen Street) – Maljamar	Western terminus of NM 249
	​	18.422	29.647	East Chickasaw Road	Southern terminus of former NM 340
	Dexter	22.860	36.790	South Lincoln Avenue	Northern terminus of former NM 339
		23.057	37.107	NM 190 east (First Street)	Western terminus of NM 190
	​	23.918	38.492	Cherokee Road, East Shawnee Road	Northern terminus of former NM 340, eastern terminus of former NM 560
	​	31.058	49.983	NM 256 north (Old Dexter Highway)	Southern terminus of NM 256
	​	32.859	52.881	US 285 (Southeast Main Street) – Artesia, Roswell	Northern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

External links

Geographic data related to New Mexico State Road 2 at OpenStreetMap