Albuquerque event
Route 66 Centennial Speaker Series: Tijeras Canyon - Five Miles of Road and Hundreds of Stories
- Date
- Saturday, November 28, 2026
- Time
- 11:00 AM MST to 12:30 PM MST
- Location
- 8081 Central NW, Albuquerque, NM 87121
- Source
- Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Public Library

Tijeras Canyon with Tijeras at the east end and Carnuel at the west end has been an important community for hundreds of years. Communities thrive because of the people who live and work there. This talk focuses on those people and their stories in a time frame of 1900 to 1950.