Turquoise Trail Campground
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New Mexico
0.9 mi
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Red Dot Trail
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Red Dot Trail is a short, steep ascent offering excellent bang-for-your-buck elevation gain in less than a mile. This quick but challenging climb rewards hikers with efficient cardiovascular training and rapid elevation change, making it ideal for those seeking an intense workout or acclimatization hike. The trail's compact distance and significant gain create a popular option for hikers looking to maximize effort in minimal time.
Carved Trail Tsankawi Guided Hike Stop 16
~7 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
~3 min drive
Moderate 8-mile hike to natural springs with 709 ft elevation gain.
More Than History Tsankawi Guided Hike Stop 1
~7 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
~3 min drive
Easy 2.4-mile trail with gentle elevation gain near Cuesta Colorada.
Intro Tsankawi Guided Hike Stop 0
~7 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…
Falls Trail Tour - Stop 11
~8 min drive
<p>Look at the northeast wall of the canyon. Can you notice the boundary between basalt and tuff? This line represents one wall of the old Rio Grande waterway. Before the eruption of the Jemez Volcano, the big river flowed here. Its channel was changed and pushed southward by…
Falls Trail Tour - Stop 10
~8 min drive
<p>Abert’s squirrels, with their tufted ears and long white tails, are one common inhabitant here. Abert’s squirrels live near ponderosa pines, which provide an important food source for the squirrels. They will turn the cones slowly, much as you may rotate an ear of corn as y…
Falls Trail Tour - Stop 13
~8 min drive
<p>Are you starting to notice some new plants? Leaving behind the towering ponderosas and scrubby oaks, you are now passing broad-leaved yucca (<i>Yucca baccata</i>), mormon tea (<i>Ephedra viridis</i>), and walkingstick cholla (<i>Opuntia imbricate</i>). The environment here…
Falls Trail Tour - Stop 8
~8 min drive
<p><i>Note: Post 8 is currently lying down on the trail, so look carefully!</i><br /> <br /> Look at the small group of oaks here. Several species of oaks can be found not only in riparian areas like this one, but also in the piñon-juniper woodland and mixed conifer forests of…
Falls Trail Tour - Stop 12
~8 min drive
<p>This is a boundary of the Bandelier Wilderness. This area was designated as a wilderness in 1976 under the Wilderness Act of 1964. Wilderness areas are given the highest form of protection the government can give to a public land to protect them for future generations.</p>
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Turquoise Trail Campground
Hiking business nearby (~46 mi away) — hasn't claimed their Roamze page yet