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Just half an hour from the Arizona border, 65 miles
west of Grants, the famous Route 66 town of GALLUP
is a handy but uninteresting I-40 pit stop. A five-mile line of
the old Route 66 frontage contains some of the least expensive
motels in the US, ranging from the Ambassador
, 1601 W 66 Ave (tel 505/722-3843; up to $35), and the Blue Spruce
Lodge , 1119 E 66 Ave (tel 505/863-5211; up to $35), to the pricier
national chains. Unless you're falling asleep at the wheel, the
only place really worth stopping for in Gallup is the lovely El
Rancho Hotel , 1000 E 66 Ave (tel 505/863-9311 or 1-800/543-6351,
; $35-75), built in 1937 by the brother of movie director D.W.Griffith
as a home away from home for the many Hollywood stars filming
nearby. Nowadays you can ogle their signed photos in the spacious
Spanish Revival lobby, grab a bite in its decorative restaurant
or spend the night in the Ronald Reagan Room , the Marx Brothers
Room or the Mae West Room . Some guestrooms are in the original
ranchhouse, the rest in a two-story motel building alongside.
The Navajo and other local Native Americans come
together in Red Rock State Park , four miles
east, on the second weekend in August for the Inter-Tribal
Indian Ceremonial , the largest such gathering anywhere.
Four days of dances and craft shows have as their highlight a
Saturday morning parade through the town.
