Expert Tips for Your Next Road Trip
LAURENCE PARENT SAYS HE’S MORE OF A HIKER than a driver. While that may seem surprising for someone who just released the fourth edition of Scenic Driving New Mexico: Exploring the State’s Most…
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How to Hike Southern NM's Argentina Canyon
Above: The Argentina Canyon. Photograph by Laurence Parent. This moderate 6.3-mile hike loops through lush, high-altitude forest (climbing from 7,380 to 9,100 feet) and along rushing streams in the…
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Hiking in the Gila - the West Fork Trail
Above: The Gila Wilderness. Photograph by Laurence Parent. A good introduction to the lower part of the Gila Wilderness, this easy 6.2-mile hike requires multiple creek crossings. Bring water shoes…
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Boots on the Trail: Big Skylight Cave
Above: Pick a cave adventure at El Malpais National Monument. THIS EASY 2.2 MILE TRAIL loops through an extensive system of lava-tube caves in El Malpais National Monument. Tack on extra distance (and…
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Boots on the Trail: Fort Bayard Champion Tree
Above: The state's largest alligator juniper awaits hikers near Silver City. This easy 3.5-mile hike takes you to an enormous alligator juniper, a state-sanctioned record-size tree, in the foothills…
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Boots on the Trail: Baylor Pass | Go. See. Do | February 2018
Excerpted from Laurence Parent’s Hiking New Mexico (4th edition available this spring, FalconGuides/Rowman & Littlefield). Above: Baylor Pass in the Organ Mountains, outside of Las Cruces…
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Boots on the Trail: Big Canyon
Above: Best place to hike this month? The Guadalupe Mountains get our nod. Head south, where January snow is rare, for this easy four-mile hike in the Guadalupe Mountains of the Lincoln National…
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Seeing the Forest
Above: Fallen leaves cushion a hiker’s steps on the Pecos Wilderness trail leading to Stewart Lake. Photography by Laurence Parent. November 1941 Beneath the thickets of white-trunked trees the horse…
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