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Access to the Dale Ball trail system can be made via dedicated trailheads or adjoining trails. The Cerro Gordo trailhead is located at the intersection of Upper Canyon and Cerro Gordo road. It has limited parking, and gives direct access to the Central and South Sections as well as the Nature Conservancy’s Santa Fe Canyon Preserve Trail. The ...
In 1880, long before Two Guns was established as a settlement, the construction of the Santa Fe Railway was progressing across northern Arizona. At the location where the rail line crossed Canyon Diablo, about 3 mi (4.8 km) north of Two Guns, construction was delayed while a trestle was built.
Another deep canyon (approximately 400 feet in depth) runs along the southern edge of the Caja, cut by the Santa Fe River. The canyon of the Santa Fe River separates the Caja land grant from another land grant to the south: the Mesita de Juana Lopez Grant. At the southern part of the Caja is La Bajada Mesa, dominated by Tetilla Peak (7,203 feet).
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway bridge over Canyon Diablo, c. 1883–1903 Canyon Diablo ( Navajo : Kin Łigaaí ) is a canyon near Two Guns in Northern Arizona . Part of it is located on the Navajo Nation .
The bridge was at first part of the National Old Trails Road (known as the Santa Fe Highway in Arizona), which in 1926 became part of U.S. Route 66. The bridge was used until a new bridge was erected just north of Canyon Diablo Bridge in 1938, after which Route 66 followed Interstate 40 at the Two Guns location.
The route makes a loop through much of the downtown area, stopping at spots including the Santa Fe Plaza, the Old Santa Fe Trail Visitor Center and the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi ...
In fact, the Santa Fe Trail (Sendero de Santa Fe) provided needed markets for local products (such as cotton) and manufactured products from New Mexico, so New Mexicans looked favorably on this new trade route. By 1827, a lucrative and commercial connection had been forged between Missouri, New Mexico, and Chihuahua.
The site of the 1881 dam, Two-Mile Dam, upstream of Santa Fe, is now part of the 190-acre (0.77 km 2) Santa Fe Canyon Preserve, [2] a trailhead for the 20-mile (32 km) Dale Ball Foothill Trail System. The Santa Fe River Watershed is 285 square miles (740 km 2), ranging in elevations between 12,408 ft (3,782 m) to 5,220 ft (1,590 m). The ...