If you liked the motorcycle road-trip comedy “Wild Hogs,” the Examiner.com has a listings of where you can find the real-life places showed in the film, including spots on Route 66 in Albuquerque.
All the downtown city shots were also filmed in Albuquerque, primarily along Central Avenue. The friendly biker bar is the Library Bar & Grill. It’s on Central Avenue (GPS coordinates: N35? 05.067 W106? 39.066 (WGS84)
You can see some of Albuquerque’s landmarks in the purposely blurred background. Look carefully at the photo above and you can spot a bit of the sign for Nick’s – an institution along Route 66 (also known as Central Avenue).
A slide show of the locations, which include other parts of New Mexico, is here.
the scene in the first part of the movie where they are crossing the big bridge and where they stop to swim are those both along the orginal Route 66? Also the scene in the mountains where they are standing along the road watching the motorcycle gang ride by, is that also on Route 66? Thanks for your help
No, none of these scenes are along Route 66. The big bridge is the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge west of Taos, NM. The scene of them watching the biker gang ride by is on State Rd 4 west of Los Alamos in the Jemez mountains. The scene of them riding thru the mountains and the big valley in the background is the Valle Grande (where Longmire is filmed) also in the Jemez mountains. The scenes of their “pit stops” and the RV is also in the Valle Grande. The swimming hole is not real but the location is a popular picnic site called Las Conchas although there are other real hot springs located in the mountains around there.
More trivia – the location of the Biker Bar is along the Turquoise Trail road between Santa Fe and Madrid. There was a popular bar located there called The Golden Inn which burned down many years back.
The road where they are out of gas is the road to Chimayo which is north of Santa Fe and west of Los Alamos and the Jemez mountains which you can see in the background.
I grew up in the area and love to watch this movie when I get homesick!