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Location

Desert Sands Motel site (former), Central Avenue

5000 Central Ave SE, Albuquerque, NM 87108

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Access notes

The 1953 Route 66 motel was demolished in December 2016 after fire damage; only the site/lot remains, publicly viewable from the street.

Parking

Street parking along Central Avenue.

Filmed Here

No Country for Old Men poster

No Country for Old Men

What Was Filmed Here

No Country for Old Men· 2007

Motel massacre scene

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Desert Sands Motel site from No Country for Old MenNow
Virtual Globetrotting · any

What happened here

Portrayed as a motel in El Paso, Texas, in the film; the site of the climactic scene where Sheriff Bell arrives too late after the cartel massacre and finds Room 114 where Moss was killed.

Trivia

The motel's iconic sign was removed in 2018 and later acquired by a local collector after the building's 2016 demolition.

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