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Rinconada Canyon

Rating:

Round Trip Distance: 2.3 miles
Difficulty: Moderate
Elevation: 5177 - 5237 feet
Cellphone: 3-5 bars
Time: 1 hr. 45 mins.
Trailhead: Rinconada Canyon
Fee: none
Attractions: petroglyphs, rock shelters

The Rinconada Canyon trail is located in Petroglyph National Monument near Albuquerque, New Mexico. There are said to be around 1,200 petroglyphs in Rinconada Canyon that were made by the Ancestral Puebloan people 400 to 600 years ago. The Rinconada Canyon trail provides a closeup view of some of them as it loops around the base of the escarpment.

Rating:

Round Trip Distance: 0.2 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 5208 - 5228 feet
Cellphone: 3-5 bars
Time: 30 mins.
Trailhead: Boca Negra Unit
Fee: $1/vehicle weekdays, $2 weekends
Attractions: petroglyphs

The Cliff Base trail is located in the Boca Negra Unit of the Petroglyph National Monument near Albuquerque, New Mexico. The trail travels along the foot of a mesa where many of the basalt boulders have petroglyphs pecked upon them. Some of the petroglyphs date back at least 3000 years although 90% of them are of the Rio Grande style that date to between A.D. 1300 to the 1600s.

Rating:

Round Trip Distance: 400 feet
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 5199 - 5212 feet
Cellphone: 3-5 bars
Time: 15 mins.
Trailhead: Boca Negra
Fee: none
Attractions: petroglyphs

The Macaw trail is located in the Boca Negra Unit of Petroglyph National Monument near Albuquerque, New Mexico. The short trail follows a loop that takes it past, among other things, a petroglyph of a macaw bird. Petroglyph National Monument has many images of birds that are drawn more anatomically correct than they are abstract like many images of animals found elsewhere in southwestern rock art.

Rating:

Round Trip Distance: 0.3 miles
Difficulty: Moderate
Elevation: 5185 - 5298 feet
Cellphone: 3-5 bars
Time: 30 mins.
Trailhead: Mesa Point
Fee: $1 weekdays/$2 weekends
Attractions: petroglyphs

The Mesa Point trail is located in the Petroglyph National Monument on the outskirts of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The trail begins in the Boca Negro unit of the monument where it climbs its way up a small hill that is covered with basalt boulders. Many of the boulders display a variety of petroglyphs that were left there hundreds of years ago by some of the earlier inhabitants of the area.