About Hiway House Motel Hiway House Motel in New Mexico Albuquerque offers clean and affordable rooms in the middle of the Nob Hill area. The motel is also a few minutes from the airport, Albuquerque Interstate 40, Kirkland AFB, the Zoo, Old Town, Nob Hill and Tramway. Best of all, Hiway house motel is a walking distance to many great restaurants, the University of New Mexico, the University Hospital. Hiway House was a motor hotel chain founded in 1956 at Phoenix, Arizona by the late Del Webb, a construction magnate who owned the New York Yankees baseball team and later created the Sun City retirement communities. Our Motel is a remnant of the old Hiway House chain still in operation at Albuquerque, New Mexico Albuquerque's hot, cool, fun and funky place for shopping and dining, art and entertainment, Southwestern history and roadside architecture.