New Mexico Trails Guide
FOR A HORSE RIDE Trails into the Pecos Wilderness often start with difficulty, climbing out of the Pecos River canyon and up into the high peaks. “The trade-off is that the scenery and the terrain are…
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Tag: Horseback Riding
Will Grant Journeys into the Old West
IN MAY 2019, WILL GRANT AND HIS PARTNER, CLAIRE ANTOSZEWSKI, drove more than 700 miles from their home in Santa Fe to St. Joseph, Missouri, with Grant’s two horses, Chicken Fry and Badger, in tow. The…
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Get a Taste of Western Hospitality
THE NARROW ROAD LEADING TO LOS PINOS GUEST RANCH splits away from NM 63 and cuts into the side of a forested ridge along the Upper Pecos River in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The family-run ranch…
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Carving New Paths for Adventure
ON A SUMMER AFTERNOON IN 2021, Peter Olson guided me out to some of the newest trail loops in the Galisteo Basin Preserve. But we had to walk before we could really ride. After briefly pedaling down a…
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Hit The Trails On Horseback
Ghost Ranch, Abiquiú View the spectacular vistas and actual locations of Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings on the back of a horse rented from the stables at the Ghost Ranch Education and Retreat Center…
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Outdoors Do's and Don'ts
A paved road circles Mesa Campground, which offers views of Lake Roberts below. Photograph by Jay Hemphill. DO: Make a plan, then a backup plan. Public-land use skyrocketed last year, and that trend…
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Camps Less Traveled
Navigating San Pedro Parks Wilderness trails can be tricky, especially in the boggy meadow. Photograph by Elizabeth Miller. HEAVY RAIN FELL SOME DAYS BEFORE MY HIKE into the San Pedro Parks…
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High Points for This Gila Campground
I CRADLED MY FOUR-MONTH-OLD DAUGHTER as the campfire fizzled. After our friends retreated to their campsite with their kiddos, my husband and I unzipped our tent and set our snoring bundle in her…
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