Some of you may recall when I visited New Mexico this past October.
That trip yielded 275 photos of a Scholaring interest, and now I've posted all of them for the whole wide world to ogle (beep).
So point your pooper here...
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21a.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21b.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21c.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21d.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21e.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21f.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21g.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21h.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21i.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21j.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21k.html
Enjoyed the pics...
You could have driven NM 501 through LANL unless there has a heightened security level which might cause them to close to non-employees. But per this webpage - https://www.lanl.gov/resources/security-perimeter.php - you only need a drivers license to be let through. You would've been subject to random vehicle search, just as you would crossing into Canada.
Most facilities like this will close off public access like this in the aftermath of 9-11, so the fact that NM 501 can still be driven is great.
NC 172 (Camp Lejeune), Fort Belvoir and Quantico MCB closed their through routes to the public long ago.