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New Mexico
3.1 mi
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951 ft
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Diablo Canyon Trail
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Diablo Canyon Trail offers a moderately challenging desert hike through scenic canyon terrain in New Mexico. The trail gains nearly 1,000 feet of elevation while traversing approximately 3 miles, featuring typical high desert landscape with canyon walls and varied topography. This route provides excellent views and a rewarding workout for hikers seeking a shorter but substantial climb.
Carved Trail Tsankawi Guided Hike Stop 16
~6 min drive
From this point forward, you will be walking in a trail carved into the volcanic tuff. The rock is very soft and malleable. It is very important to stay on the trail. In just a very short time, our shoes can do more damage than many years of erosion. Thank you for helping…
Soda Springs
~4 min drive
Moderate 8-mile hike to natural springs with 709 ft elevation gain.
More Than History Tsankawi Guided Hike Stop 1
~6 min drive
No Pueblo people live at Tsankawi today. However, this place still contains tangible and intangible connections with the past for the descendants of the people who once occupied these canyons and mesas. A petroglyph (image etched into rock) carved into the soft stone walls o…
Cuesta Colorada
~8 min drive
Easy 2.4-mile trail with gentle elevation gain near Cuesta Colorada.
Intro Tsankawi Guided Hike Stop 0
~6 min drive
Tsankawi is part of the ancestral lands of the modern pueblo of San Ildefonso. Using the soft volcanic rock to construct houses and the flat open lands between mesas for farming, Ancestral Pueblo people called this place home in the 1400’s and 1500’s. Life was not easy on th…
Soft Rock Pueblo Loop Trail Stop 10
~12 min drive
The cliff in front of you has numerous holes, some big and some small. These holes are created by wind and water erosion of the volcanic tuff we talked about earlier. Water freezes and thaws in the permeable rock breaking off big and small pieces (most are microscopic). Wind p…
First Cavate Pueblo Loop Trail Stop 11
~12 min drive
You have arrived at the first of three ladders you can climb into cavates (CAVE-eights), human excavated openings. Although sometimes used for housing, the main purpose of cavates was often food storage. Remember the Ancestral Pueblo people lived here for over 400 years and th…
Blue Dot Trail
~2 min drive
Steep 0.88-mile climb gaining nearly 1,000 feet with rewarding views.
White Rock Canyon Rim Trail Lower
~4 min drive
Short rim walk with canyon views and minimal elevation gain.
El Camino Real Historic Route Trail
~5 min drive
Historic 11-mile trail following the legendary El Camino Real trade route.