The White Arrow Garage is a surviving piece of Route 66 commercial architecture in the small hamlet of San Fidel, Cibola County. It dates from the mid-20th century and represents the kind of independent filling station and repair shop that once appeared every few miles along the old road, serving travellers whose cars were less reliable and whose journeys were slower.
San Fidel sits on what was the National Old Trails Highway before it became Route 66 in 1926, placing it on one of the oldest transcontinental motor routes in the United States. The surrounding landscape — high desert scrub, red mesa edges, the Sandia Mountains to the east — is the New Mexico that Route 66 travellers have been passing through for a century. The garage is not a museum; it is a building in the landscape, most interesting to those who are making the full Route 66 drive and want to see the authentic, unrestored version of the road alongside the tourist-facing sections.