Getting There -- From Albuquerque, take I-25 south, 15 miles past Truth or Consequences; then west on NM 152 and US 180 (5 hr.). From Las Cruces, take I-10 west to Deming, and then north on US 180 (2 hr.).
Great Lakes Airlines (tel. 575/388-4115) flies daily to Grant County Airport (tel. 575/388-4554), 15 miles south of Silver City near Hurley. Silver Stage Lines (tel. 800/522-0162) offers daily shuttle service to the El Paso airport, and charter service to Tucson. The Las Cruces Shuttle Service (tel. 800/288-1784 or 575/525-1784; www.lascrucesshuttle.com) runs several times daily from Silver City to the El Paso airport, by way of Las Cruces.
Visitor Information -- The Murray Ryan Visitor Center at 201 N. Hudson St., Silver City, NM 88061 (tel. 800/548-9378 or 575/538-3785; www.silvercity.org), also houses the Silver City Grant County Chamber of Commerce and is a good source of information. The chamber produces extremely useful tourist publications. Also of note at this site is a replica 1870s log cabin donated to the city by movie producer Ron Howard. It was built for the filming of the 2005 movie The Missing. A plaque on it says that Billy the Kid likely lived in one similar to it when he was a young resident of this town.
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