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Looking west towards Cuba The Jemez Mountain Trail turns rustic on this gravel section near Fenton Lake State Park. New Mexico State Road 126 (NM 126) is a 39.654-mile-long (63.817 km) state highway in New Mexico, United States. NM 126's western terminus is in the small town of Cuba, at U.S. Route 550 (US 550).
Census-designated places within the Jemez Mountains include Jemez Springs and Jemez Pueblo (referred to as Walatowa in Towa [22]). Jemez Springs is a small town with a population of 198 according to the 2020 census. [23] In the Jemez Pueblo, more than 90% of around 3400 members speak the Towa language. [24]
NM 501 is part of the Jemez Mountain Trail National Scenic Byway. [2] Note that the cited reference erroneously describes this segment as highway 502 , not 501 , in conflict with reference 1. NM 502 is a related but distinct highway that runs east from Los Alamos to a junction with NM 4 and then to the town of Pojoaque .
Gilman tunnels on FR376 can be reached vis NM 485. State Road 485 (NM 485) is a 3.9-mile-long (6.3 km) state highway in the US state of New Mexico.NM 485's southern terminus is near the small town of Jemez Pueblo, at NM 4.
Pajarito Mountain first opened on 23 November 1957 with no toilets, no water, no grooming, no modern lifts and a few short slopes. The Aspen run received a T-bar for the 1962–1963 season. An additional 400 acres (1.6 km 2 ) of land was purchased in the late 1960s and the first chairlift installed on the Spruce run for the 1969–1970 season.
The mountain is sacred to many of the Puebloan peoples of New Mexico, who traditionally regarded it as the "center of all." Much of it lies within the territory of the Santa Clara Pueblo . Access by hikers, hunters, and others, is correspondingly limited, although the summit can be reached via public lands on the north side.
The Pajarito Plateau is a volcanic plateau in north central New Mexico, United States.The plateau, part of the Jemez Mountains, is bounded on the west by the Sierra de los Valles, the range forming the east rim of the Valles Caldera, and on the east by the Puye escarpment, which rises about 300 to 400 feet (90 to 100 m) above the Rio Grande valley about a mile (1.6 km) west of the river.
Jemez National Recreation Area is a national recreation area in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Located in Santa Fe National Forest, the U.S. Forest Service recreation area comprises 57,650 acres (23,330 ha) [1] and is administered by the U.S. Forest Service's Jemez Ranger District. The Forest Service administers the lands to promote the area for ...