Hotel Parq Central in the News

Historic Route 66 has been welcoming travelers from across the country for a century — and so has one of its Albuquerque landmarks.

Like Route 66, the Hotel Parq Central property, located along the Mother Road at 806 Central SE, is celebrating its 100th anniversary. The historic structure was built in 1926, the same year the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads launched the nation’s first federal highway system and commissioned Route 66.

Hotel Parq Central in Albuquerque is celebrating the property’s 100th anniversary with special room rates, commemorative gifts, themed cocktails and a rooftop celebration inspired by the Roaring Twenties. While commemorating its centennial, the boutique hotel is also celebrating the 100th year of Route 66, with a yearlong series of special offers and events.

There’s a lot to see and do in Albuquerque so lodging that facilitates getting around easily is important. Beyond a good location, the Hotel Parq Central offers a fascinating history, stylish décor, comfortable accommodations, and places to steal away for some quiet time. Find out what’s so special about this landmark celebrating its 100-year history.

Hotel Parq Central, located at 806 Central Ave. SE in Albuquerque, celebrated its 100th anniversary this year.

It started as the Santa Fe Railway Hospital, which was first established in 1926, and served as a medical facility for railroad workers. The hospital had just four physicians before eventually expanding to as many as 156 physicians in 1968 across a number of specialties.

Just an hour drive from Santa Fe, Albuquerque boasts the longest urban stretch of Route 66. The Hotel Parq Central sits right on Route 66 and is having its 100-year celebration as well. Once a railroad hospital, constructed to treat the workers of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, now a national and city landmark, the hotel includes a rooftop bar, The Apothecary, perfect for watching the sun set.

In Albuquerque, Hotel Parq Central sits directly on Route 66 and is designated a city landmark. The building opened in 1926 as a hospital for Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway employees, an origin story that ties the property to an earlier chapter of American transit history. This year, the hotel marks its own 100th anniversary alongside the highway's centennial, and it's treating the overlap as a reason to celebrate all year.

If traveling’s still not on your radar, Albuquerque’s Hotel Parq Central’s rooftop bar, Apothecary Lounge, has shared some recipes that may help you reset, wherever you happen to be right now. 

In The Before Times, you’d signal the end of a ski day by clicking out of your boots and bellying up to a crowded bar for some après-ski cocktails—order a hot toddy or espresso martini, whatever libation warms your soul or fires you up for an epic night.

Toasting a flute of champagne at midnight may be the customary to ring in the New Year. But 2020, we can all agree, has been anything but ordinary.

Prepare yourselves for some spooky sightings across the country.