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Alpine Loop National Back Country Byway: Colorado: 63 101 US 550 in Ouray or Silverton: CO 149 in Lake City: This route winds its way to an elevation of 12,800 feet (3,900 m), crossing Engineer and Cinnamon passes. The rugged scenery includes river meadows, alpine tundra, ghost towns, and ore mills. [3] [4] [5] II Barrel Springs Back Country ...
Views of mesas and steep rock walls in central New Mexico. July 31, 1998 [1] Narrow Gauge Scenic Byway: 9.9 miles: Scenic, historic drive: July 31, 1998 [1] Puye Cliffs Scenic Byway: 14 miles: Santa Clara Pueblo is located on the byway: By 2013 [9] Quebradas Back Country Byway: 24 miles: Scenic, rugged back country road east of Socorro. BLM ...
The byway is a designated one of the New Mexico Scenic Byways and operated between an area two miles north of Questa and Cerro. The 13 mile byway—NM 378—has panoramic views that include many mountain peaks like Blanca Peak. It also provides access to park facilities, like the Wild Rivers visitor center and parking lots to campgrounds and ...
State Road 378 (NM 378) is a 3.4-mile-long (5.5 km) state highway in far northern New Mexico. Beginning at a junction with NM 522, NM 378 heads generally west through the small town of Cerro and officially ends shortly thereafter at the boundary of BLM lands. The paved surface continues a few miles further under a different designation to end ...
Ute Mountain (10, 093 ft) and the upper Rio Grande gorge. The Rio Grande del Norte National Monument is an approximately 242,555-acre (98,159 ha) area of public lands in Taos County, New Mexico, United States, proclaimed as a national monument on March 25, 2013, by President Barack Obama under the provisions of the Antiquities Act.
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The byway is known for its geographical features such as the quebrada (Spanish for 'break' / 'ravine'), which in New Mexico often refers in plural to the eroded escarpment of a plain or mesa. [4] Other features include badlands , fossils, [ 5 ] rhombohedral calcite crystals , [ 6 ] malachite , azurite and more.
Map of Carson National Forest. Carson National Forest is a national forest in northern New Mexico, United States. It encompasses 6,070 square kilometers (1.5 million acres) and is administered by the United States Forest Service. The Forest Service's "mixed use" policy allows for its use for recreation, grazing, and resource extraction.