High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! New Mexico Route 599 is a state highway located entirely within Santa Fe County in New Mexico, United States of America. It is named the Veterans Memorial Highway. It is also named the Santa Fe Relief Route (both names are used on road signs), which alludes to the highway`s original purpose of bypassing the urbanized areas of Santa Fe and thereby relieving it from shipments of hazardous waste. It passes through less densely developed terrain in and around the northwestern boundary of the municipality. This expressway`s total length is approximately 14 miles (23 km). The speed limits on it range from 45 miles per hour (72 kilometers per hour) to 65 miles per hour (105 kilometers per hour).