El Malpais National Conservation Area<\/strong><\/a>
\n“The richly diverse volcanic landscape of El Malpais offers solitude, recreation, and discovery. Explore cinder cones, lava tube caves, sandstone bluffs, and hiking trails. Wildlife abounds in the open grasslands and forests. ”
\nHere is the Area website from the BLM<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0Here is another from the National Park Service<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0Map<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Call the BLM at 505-287-7911 or the Northwest New Mexico Visitor Center 505-876-2783 for information about the trails. \u00a0I am not sure how easy the footing is on them.
\n<\/a>? <\/strong>The 1\/2 mile round trip hike to La Ventana Natural Arch is described as “relatively easy”.
\n<\/a>? <\/strong>The Ranger Station Nature Trail\u00a0is a 1 1\/4 mile loop with an elevation gain of 125 feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

El Malpais National Conservation Area “The richly diverse volcanic landscape of El Malpais offers solitude, recreation, and discovery. Explore cinder cones, lava tube caves, sandstone bluffs, and hiking trails. Wildlife abounds in the open grasslands and forests. ” Here is the Area website from the BLM.\u00a0 \u00a0Here is another from the National Park Service.\u00a0 \u00a0Map … Continue reading El Malpais National Conservation Area<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-mexico-federal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7636,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309\/revisions\/7636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}