McCartys/San Fidel/Cubero/Budville ghost-stretch (ruins cluster)
New Mexico
A 12-mile run of pure Route 66 abandonment: the burned-out Whiting Brothers gas station shell outside San Fidel, the shuttered Budville Trading Co. and 1936 Dixie Bar, and Cubero's 1876 adobe mission church where Route 66's original 1926 alignment was bypassed in 1937 — three ghost stops in the same short drive.
Why Roamward picked it
The single richest ghost-town run in the entire dead zone and currently zero-coverage — ideal 'roll the windows down and look' infill between Grants and Laguna. Deliberately staged as a flagged cluster rather than three fake-precise pins; recommend a follow-up on-the-ground or satellite-imagery pass to split into three checkinable rows (Whiting Bros. ruins, Budville Trading Co./Dixie Bar, Cubero mission) before publishing. San Fidel itself is NOT a ghost town (pop. ~135, active post office) — tone should reflect 'photogenic ruins along a still-lived-in road,' not 'abandoned town.'
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