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Silver City, New Mexico

Everything Silver City is known for

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Music in Silver City

Songs About Silver City

Silver City (feat. Tessy Lou Williams)
Casey Hubble
82%
"Silver City"
Billy the Kid
Marty Robbins
53%
"In old Silver City he went to the bad"
Feeling Good Again
Robert Earl Keen
20%
"The boys from Silver City were standin' by the fire"
Feelin’ Good Again
Robert Earl Keen
20%
"The boys from Silver City were standin' by the fire"
New Mexico
Wake Self
2%
"Shiprock, Hobbs, Jemez and Silver City"

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Silver City

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Silver City.

Things to Do in Silver City

Everything Near Silver City

8 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

  • The Big Ditch Park · Things to Do

    An 1895 flash flood carved Main Street 55 feet underground. The town just used the back doors.

  • Billy the Kid's Childhood Home · 0.1 mi · Things to Do

    Billy the Kid grew up here in the 1870s and got his first arrest at age 15 for stealing laundry.

  • Continental Divide Trail Gateway · 0.1 mi · Things to Do

    Silver City is the southern gateway to the 3028-mile CDT. Trail runs right through town.

  • More Galleries Than Gas Stations · 0.1 mi · Things to Do

    Population 10K but 50+ art galleries. Artists bought adobes for under $10K in the 70s and never left.

  • Pinos Altos Ghost Town · 7.0 mi · Things to Do

    An 1860s gold rush town 7 miles north. The Buckhorn Saloon still serves steaks in a former opera house.

  • Pinos Altos Historic District · 7.5 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    Imagine striking it rich in the middle of nowhere! That's exactly what happened here in Pinos Altos. Gold was discovered in 1860, and the town boomed almost overnight. Miners flocked here, and Pinos Altos became a…

  • Santa Rita Copper Mine · 13.0 mi · Things to Do

    An Apache showed Spanish soldiers this copper in 1800. One of the oldest active mines in North America.

  • The Kneeling Nun · 13.4 mi · Things to Do

    A towering rock monolith that looks like a veiled nun praying before a cliff altar.

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