By Curtis Holloway For the BMW Car Club of America New Mexico Chapter Cardinal Point Drive West this summer, the chapter headed to Grants and nearby attractions on July 15, 2023. We met at the Maverik on the West side of Albuquerque and as we gathered around waiting for our departure time, some of us Read More
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June 2023 Drive North to El Vado Lake
By Donnette and Scott Wagner The BMW CCA New Mexico Chapter June 2023 Cardinal Point Drive North started early Saturday morning, June 10, 2023 at historic Bode’s General Store in Abiquiu, New Mexico. Bode’s roots go back to the original Grants Mercantile in 1890, as a general store, post office, stagecoach stop and jail when Abiquiu Read More
2023 Spring Tour to Ruidoso, NM
By Jim Storch The BMW CCA New Mexico Chapter Spring Tour began in Tijeras, NM on April 1, 2023 under a beautiful New Mexico sky. Heading south on NM 337 toward Mountainair is a nice road that BMWs really like, especially NM 55 at the base of the Manzano Mountains. We stopped at the Gran Read More
March 2023 Drive to Santa Rosa
By Jim Levandoski and Curtis Holloway The BMW CCA New Mexico Chapter March 2023 driving adventure started in Tijeras, where most of us gathered at the Tijeras East Mountain Public Library at 8:30 am on March 11, 2023. A number of brave souls arrived early despite a cold and windy NM morning. One car of Read More
2022 Karl Fox Memorial Fall Tour
By Christina and Rob Anthony The BMW Car Club of America New Mexico Chapter held its annual Karl Fox Memorial Fall Tour on Saturday, October 22 and Sunday, October 23, 2022. This year’s tour featured a route that wove through the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in Northern New Mexico with multiple historical and culinary stopsduring what Read More
Borderland Drive to Ruidoso
By Jim Storch The day’s drive started on October 16, 2022 in El Paso at Lowes on Transmountain at 8 am, where Bob (335i) met up with John (740i) and family and Robert (X5M) and his family. The skies were a little overcast and they had some rain coming up US54 at the border Read More
2022 Drive 4 Corners Tour
By Jim Levandoski Drive 4 Corners was started about 12 years ago for BMW CCA members from Colorado, Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico to meet each other with a group drive aimed to be a laid back weekend focused on driving mountain roads and exploring the region with other enthusiasts. Texas chapters were also represented. Read More
July 2022 Taos Enchanted Circle Drive
It wasn’t planned this way, but the BMW CCA New Mexico Chapter Taos Enchanted Circle Drive on July 16, 2022 was a New Mexico True 50 Jahre BMW M celebration with all cars participating either ///M or ///M Sport Package equipped. After appreciating the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge from the nearby meeting point on US 64, the group powered its way on Read More
2022 Trinity Site Tour
By Rob Anthony On April 2, 2022, 12 BMWs and 23 participants joined the BMW Car Club of America New Mexico Chapter for a tour of the Trinity Site, where the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16th, 1945. Participants drove from as far away as Farmington to the North and El Paso Read More
March 2022 Sacramento Mountains Tour
By Sue Johnson On March 12th and 13th 2022, BMW Car Club of America New Mexico Chapter members from the northern part of the state headed south from Albuquerque via Quarai National Monument to Carrizozo to meet up with the club members from the southern part of the state and El Paso. After a Read More