SureStay by Best Western Grants

Just off Interstate 40 on the east end of Grants, the SureStay by Best Western Grants, Grants, New Mexico, offers an easy base for the area's attractions, with a free continental breakfast, free Wi-Fi, a heated indoor pool, and free parking with room for buses and vehicles of all sizes. The hotel welcomes pets. The setting puts a uranium-mining museum and a desert golf course close by, with a lava-field national monument and a state-park lake within reach for hiking, fishing, and boating. Route 66 runs right through town. Grants grew up as a railroad and uranium town along Route 66 in western New Mexico, set between the dark lava flows of El Malpais and the volcanic dome of Mount Taylor, a peak sacred to several Native nations. Jagged badlands, lava tubes, and sandstone bluffs of El Malpais and El Morro lie just south, and the ancient mesa-top village of Acoma, Sky City, one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in North America, rises a short drive east.