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Billy the Kid Territory Tour & Maps
Self Guided Tours
From Albuquerque International Airport to the Kid's boyhood hometown of Silver City, for example, it's a 238-mile (383- kilometer) drive southwest. From El Paso International Airport to historic La Mesilla and the adjacent city of Las Cruces, for instance, it's a 42-mile (67.6-kilometer) drive northwest. For distances from here to there, and to and between one or more Billy the Kid Territory communities, check out the Billy The Kid Territory Community Thumbnails.
Maps
For your self-guided Billy the Kid Territory tours, click on any or all four of these day-long (or longer) walking/driving tour maps. They're formatted for your Personal Computer's printer, and should be run off on legal-size (8.5-by-14-inch) bond paper (20-pound stock will do).
Billy the Kid's Lincoln County Map
This is is a driving tour to 21 places that were familiar to the Kid, Pat Garrett, and several Lincoln County War notables from 1878-81, incorporating the 69-mile (111-kilometer) outer loop of the Billy the Kid National Scenic & Historic Byway.
[click to view or print legal size .pdf]
Billy the Kid's Lincoln Map
This is a walking tour of 16 points of interest in the historic village of Lincoln, involving the Kid, his role in the 1878 Lincoln County War, and those of several other Lincoln characters.
[click to view or print legal size .pdf]
Billy the Kid's Old Fort Sumner Walking Map
This is a walking tour of 13 points of interest at the Maxwell family's ranch complex that were familiar to the Kid (and the folks who hid him from Garrett) from 1878-81, including the old post cemetery where the Kid's pals, Tom O'Folliard and Charlie Bowdre were buried (in 1880). The Kid hadn't the foggiest he'd end up there, too (in 1881).
[click to view or print legal size .pdf]
Billy the Kid's De Baca County
This is a driving tour to 13 places outside Old Fort Sumner, upstream or downstream of (and along or near) the Pecos River, that were familiar to the Kid, including those places to the east along or near the Kid's cattle-rustling trail to and from Texas.
[click to view or print legal size.pdf]
