EXPLORE NEW MEXICO

Explore this interesting hiking site before you go hiking in New Mexico. A dynamically generated map starts you off clicking to your area of interest and finding trail locations and descriptions along with a list of links to put helpful info at your disposal. For example, click on Santa Fe and the link brings up another map with five nearby towns including Los Alamos. Nearby hikes were listed and linked: Black Canyon, Borrego/Bear Wallow, Falls Trail at Bandelier National Monument, Hyde Park Circle Trail.

Ten nearby campgrounds were listed and also linked to more info about them. Also listed were links to six nearby cities.

If you did not want to click on an area on the New Mexico map to what was available, you could click on the link to Hikes at the top of the links offered on the left margin of the site in a red out lined box. This link takes you to a full page with an outline of the major regions of New Mexico and under each region the major features and under that links to the hiking areas with brief descriptions. The Central area of New Mexico had by far the most hiking available. Very nicely arranged, user-friendly outline with links.

Other features included Camping, Plants from our hikes, fire restrictions, Explore NM, General suggestions form, packing lists and more. My favorite link so far is one to Plants which are common to New Mexico. This takes you to links to various kinds of flowers, trees, shrubs etc with photos of each. A good way to prepare the family for getting the most out of their hiking excursions.

Sports and Outdoors in New Mexico

Each year the "Land of Enchantment" attracts many visitors who hike the trails to see its scenic beauty first hand. Folks find hiking opportunities are endless in New Mexico. You can chose to hike up the rugged and forested mountain tops or down on the grassy plains or along the lowland desert areas. To help you chose your hiking plans this web page introduction gives a great overview of basic hiking and camping in New Mexico. It also gives resources such as addresses and phone numbers to the main public land management and state parks divisions. and links to many other resources.

Click on Camping and Hiking and go to a well-designed page with good brief description and helpful info about each major section of New Mexico along with some beautiful photos of that area. For example under the section called Central info is given about New Mexico’s largest city Albuquerque. Near Albuquerque is the Cibola National Forest and two of it’s wilderness areas which cover the Sandia and Manzano mountains. You don’t have to go to the mountain to take a hike though. Even from the city limits you can take a steep hike up the La Luz Trail.

So if hiking in New Mexico be sure and check this site and its helpful links including one for State parks and one for National Parks and Monuments.

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