Pie Town's Annual Pie Festival
A single Saturday each September, this tiny ghost-town hamlet of 166 souls on US-60 in Catron County stages a community pie bake-off and festival that draws visitors from across the Southwest to celebrate the crop and character that gave Pie Town its name.
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