The Long Way
Doña Ana County
A giant red chili pepper sculpture outdoors.
Plate I. World's Largest Chile Pepper. From atlasobscura.com
A large red pepper sculpture stands outdoors on a rock base.
Plate II. Sculpture, World's Largest Chile Pepper. From atlasobscura.com
A large red chili pepper statue stands outside a building.
Plate III. World's Largest Chile Pepper, Las Cruces. From atlasobscura.com
A giant red chili pepper sculpture is displayed in a parking lot.
Plate IV. World's Largest Chile Pepper sculpture. From atlasobscura.com

World's Largest Chile Pepper

Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico. Concrete sculpture.

Details

Map. Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico. Larger map
Where
2160 W Picacho Ave, Las Cruces, NM 88007. Directions
Phone
(575) 652-3754
Coordinates
32.312229, -106.807905.

47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

Notable Events

  1. 1960sThe hotel that now hosts the pepper used to be a Ramada Hotel in the 1960s. web.archive.org
  2. 1967Clint Eastwood stayed at the hotel in 1967; a mirror from the set of his 1968 film Hang 'Em High hangs in the lobby. web.archive.org
  3. 2010The chile pepper was built in 2010, designed to attract tourists to the neighborhood. web.archive.org
  4. 2018The 47-foot chile, made from two-and-a-half tons of concrete, was one of the star attractions in the Mercedes-Benz 2018 GLC 300 commercial. web.archive.org

People

  • Belinda Breedlove, manager of the Big Chile Inn.
  • David Girle, previous Big Chile Inn owner, an engineer from Australia; the pepper's brainchild.

Sources

  1. bigchileinns.com
  2. bigchileinns.com/about
  3. bigchileinns.com/contact
  4. newmexico.org/things-to-do/road-trips/enchantedeight/roadside-oddities
  5. web.archive.org/web/20191121143207/https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/community/2018/09/12/las-cruces-big-chile-inn-featured-mercedes-benz-commercial/1281395002