At the end of the trail a new adventure starts
The Four Corners Monument marks the location where the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet.
It is the only point in the United States shared by four states, leading to the area being named the Four Corners region.
Continue reading “Four Corners Monument”Shiprock is a unique rock formation thar rises to nearly 1,583 feet above the high desert plain of the Navajo Nation in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. The city of Shiprock, named after the formation, is 11 miles northeast of it.
Aztec Ruins National Monument is located in northwestern New Mexico next to Aztec city 12 miles northeast of Farmington.
It consists of preserved structures constructed by the ancestral to the Pueblo Indians on the western bank of the Animas River.
We spent the night at Angel Peak Scenic area.
We have nice views of Castle Rock and Angel Peak from where we are parked. Weather is overcast but the view is still magnificent.
Next morning great view with a clear weather
The Bisti and De-Na-Zin wilderness area located in San Juan County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is a desolate area of steeply eroded badlands managed by the Bureau of Land Management and Navajo Nation.
Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness is located in New Mexico, between Chaco Canyon and the De-Na-Zin Wilderness.
The name comes from phonetic transliteration of Navajo term “áshįįh łibá” meaning grey salt.
Together with the nearby areas of Bisti Badlands and De-Na-Zin Wilderness they form an interesting area with multicolored badlands, sandstone hoodoos, petrified wood and dinosaur bones.
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Chaco Culture is a United States National Historical Park in the American Southwest hosting a large concentration of pre-Columbian indigenous ruins of pueblos. The park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a remote canyon cut by the Chaco Wash. Containing the most sweeping collection of ancient ruins north of Mexico, the park preserves one of the most important cultural and historical areas in the United States
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El Malpais National Monument is a National Monument located in western New Mexico, in the Southwestern United States
The name El Malpais was coined by the first Spanish explorers from the Spanish term Malpaís, meaning badlands, due to the extremely barren and dramatic volcanic field that covers much of the park’s area.
The lava flows, cinder cones, and other volcanic features of El Malpais are part of the Zuni-Bandera volcanic field, the second largest volcanic field in the Basin and Range Province.
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Acoma Pueblo is a Native American pueblo situated on a 365-foot mesa, about 60 miles west of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The isolation and location of the Pueblo has sheltered the community for more than 1,200 years as they sought protection from the raids of the neighboring Navajo and Apache peoples
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