| Cactus Motor Lodge | |
| Location: | 1316 E. Route 66 Blvd., Tucumcari, New Mexico |
| Coordinates: | 35.1733°N -103.7103°W |
| Architecture: | Exotic Revival |
| Added: | March 21, 2006 |
| Designated Other1: | New Mexico |
| Designated Other1 Date: | December 5, 2005[1] |
| Designated Other1 Number: | 1887 |
| Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
| Refnum: | 06000154 |
The Cactus Motor Lodge, later known as the Cactus RV Park, was a motel located along historic U.S. Route 66 in Tucumcari, New Mexico. I.E. and Edna Perry built the lodge in 1941. The motel included three wings of units forming a "U" shape and an office, the latter of which was a dance hall when the motel opened. In 1952, Norm Wegner purchased the motel; Wegner added an artificial stone exterior to the buildings and converted the dance hall to an office. After Route 66 was decommissioned, the motel lost much of its business, and by the 1990s it became an RV park; the motel units fell into disuse. The motel's neon sign was restored in 2008.[2] In October 2018, the sign was sold and removed to be relocated to an Albuquerque neon-sign park. Many other items were sold off before the owners sold the property itself to O'Reilly Auto Parts.[3] O'Reilly razed all structures before beginning construction of their store at the location.[4]
The motel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 21, 2006.