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Here On the Great Divide We Live, Love, Laugh, Work Hard and Play Harder
Clean Air and Water, Big Dark Skies, Good friends And A Great Small Town Life Nearly Lost In America
Pie Town New Mexico
Yes Pie Town!
Below is the history of Pie Town
but there is much more to us than that.
There are two pie shops in Pie Town That make some of the best pie on the planet.
Good Pie Cafe and the Pie-O-Neer.
Our little town has a free campground at Lester Jackson Park. Thats right free (But feel free to make a donation)
The 32nd Annual Pie Festival
Pie Town, New Mexico
September 8th 2012
The Pie Town Annual Pie Festival includes a pie-baking contest, games and races, music, food, arts and crafts, and pie, pie, pie. Admission is free and parking is easy. The festival is held in Jackson Park each year and is a great opportunity to visit with friends, both old and new.
BREAKING NEWS
Friday Night Dinner at Good Pie Cafe
HISTORY
In Americas great southwest, on the Continental Divide, Pie Town New Mexico is in west central New Mexico.
There lots of stories of how Pie Town got its name. This one is my favorite.
In the early 1920's Mr.Clyde Norman a tall Texan and a WW1 veteran who "liked to bake" began making dried apple pies and began making them at his at his upstart business on a piece of ground that lay along a little rocky ridge and the "Coast to Coast Highway" later to become U.S. 60. The word got around that the best pies anywhere were to be found at "Pie Town".
A scenic 160 miles Southwest of Albuquerque, but far enough away to find peace and quiet in an increasingly, noisy and fast paced world, Pie Town on U.S. Hwy 60 is visited by a myriad of travelers seeking a more relaxed route as well as adventurers from around the world traveling the Continental Divide Trail from Mexico to Canada.
At nearly 8000'above sea level this diminutive western town has a Post Office, a ELVA (Very Large Array radio telescope),and "Lester Jackson Park" which hosts the Annual Pie Town Festival on the second Saturday in September.
It is also home to the world renowned GOODPIE and PIE-O-NEER cafes they have been featured in various television programs and national publications, such as the February 2005 Smithsonian Magazine and The Food Networks "Best Thing I ever Ate"
Stop in for a visit and say howdy to us.
The main activities are staying warm or cool, cowboying, hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, telling stories, pie baking/eating star gazing (or just plain gazing) and enjoying a life well lived.
Life out here is a step back in the past where neighbors look out for one another, would not drive past without waving, and some could care less.
"Thats our story and we're stickin to it"
email pietown@gilanet.com
