New Mexico State Road 117

State Road 117
State Road 117
	Map NM 117 highlighted in red
Route information
	Maintained by NMDOT
Length	62.06 mi (99.88 km)
Major junctions
South end	NM 36 near Quemado
	I-40 near Grants
North end	NM 122 / Historic US 66 in Grants
Location
Country	United States
State	New Mexico
Counties	Cibola
Highway system
	New Mexico State Highway System; Interstate; US; State; Scenic;

State Road 117 (NM 117) is a 62.06-mile-long (99.88 km) state road in north west New Mexico, entirely within Cibola County. The southern terminus is at NM 36 near Quemado, and the northern terminus is at NM 122 and Historic U.S. Route 66 in Grants. NM 117 runs through the El Malpais National Conservation Area.

It is one of the roads on the Trails of the Ancients Byway, one of the designated New Mexico Scenic Byways.^[2]

History

The portion of NM 117 from I-40 north to NM 122 became a state highway on a road exchange agreement with Cibola County in October 1988.^[3]

The entire route is in Cibola County.

Location	mi^[3]	km	Destinations	Notes
Mora	0.000	0.000	NM 36	Southern terminus
	56.726	91.292	I-40	I-40 exit 89
	56.818	91.440	NM 124 east	Western terminus of NM 124
Grants	62.058	99.873	NM 122 / Historic US 66	Northern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

^ "Posted Route–Legal Description" (PDF). New Mexico Department of Transportation. March 16, 2010. p. 29. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
^ Trail of the Ancients. Archived 2014-08-21 at the Wayback Machine New Mexico Tourism Department. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
^ ^a ^b "TIMS Road Segments by Posted Route/Point with AADT Info; NM, X-Routes" (PDF). New Mexico Department of Transportation. April 3, 2013. pp. 5–7. Retrieved December 20, 2013.