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Getting its name from the Tewa word for “wild chokecherry place,” Abiquiú is a historic village along the Rio Chama where striking red rock cliffs and mesas frame the high desert landscape. The town is best known as the home of Georgia O’Keeffe, who called the area home and featured the dramatic landscapes prominently in her art. Abiquiú also offers outdoor adventure at Abiquiú Lake and cultural exploration at the 18th-century Santo Tomás Church and nearby ancestral Pueblo sites. Today it serves not only as a creative and scenic hub, but also as a practical resupply stop for riders on the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route as they pass through northern New Mexico.

Small purblo settlement in the Chama valley with a store for essential resupply. Bodes also has hardware and curios.

In the 20th century, Ghost Ranch was the summer home and studio of artist Georgia O'Keeffe, as well as the subject of many of her paintings. It often serves as a location for movie production. Ghost Ranch is owned by the Presbyterian Church (USA) and leased to and managed by The National Ghost Ranch Foundation. Ghost Ranch is known for a remarkable concentration of fossils, most notably that of the theropod dinosaur Coelophysis, of which it has been estimated that nearly a thousand individuals have been preserved in a quarry at Ghost Ranch. Today Ghost Ranch is a 21,000-acre (85 km2) retreat and education center with two museums, the Ruth Hall Museum of Paleontology and the Florence Hawley Ellis Museum of Anthropology, in addition to the Ghost Ranch Library. Tues-Sat: 9am-5pm; Closed 12pm-1pm Sun: 1pm-5pm; Closed Monday The Day Pass fee of $10 per adult over 18 grants guests access to both Museums, the labyrinth, and all Ghost Ranch hiking trails https://www.ghostranch.org

Surprisingly large and diverse exhibits considering this remote area. Excellent info panels. Ghost Ranch is host to two museums, the Ruth Hall Museum of Paleontology and the Florence Hawley Ellis Museum of Anthropology, in addition to the Ghost Ranch Library. The Museums of Ghost Ranch are dedicated to advancing research, education and public engagement in Anthropology, Archaeology and Paleontology. Ghost Ranch is a world‐renowned site for Triassic paleontology. Its low, red‐grey mounded hills and washes boast three fossil quarries that are famous among scholars and amateur paleontologists, and a number of other sites where isolated skulls, bones, or skeletons have been found. The three major quarries are the Canjilon Quarry (now situated on U.S. Forest Service land), the Coelophysis Quarry, and the Hayden Quarry. Dozens of different kinds of fossil reptiles, amphibians, and other vertebrates have been discovered, as well as fossil plants and invertebrates. Its quarries have, in recent years, given a whole new perspective to our understanding of how the dinosaurs began to take dominance of the terrestrial realm in the Late Triassic, over 200 million years ago. Tues-Sat: 9am-5pm; Closed 12pm-1pm Sun: 1pm-5pm; Closed Monday The Day Pass fee of $10.00 per adult over 18 grants guests access to both Museums, the labyrinth, and all Ghost Ranch hiking trails. https://www.ghostranch.org/museums

To access Palomas Trail, park at the turn-around loop on FR 70. This trail connects hikers to the Perchas Trail, Anastacio Trail, and Upper Clear Creek Trail. Hikers go through the woods here and visit rivers like the Rio de las Vacas and the Rio Anastacio. It is a great way to visit the San Pedro Parks Wilderness without being on the CDT.

Chicoma Mountain stands at an elevation of 11,561 feet and is an extinct supervolcano. It is the highest mountain in the Jemez Mountains range, and the trail getting to the top can be tricky to follow, so bring the appropriate navigation tools. Sometimes at the summit, near the geological survey marker, there is a rock cairn. The cairn is where Pueblo people leave traditional offerings, so respectfully do not move any objects resting at the top of the mountain.

Two USFS roads intersect at this point. There are seasonal streams nearby and room at the intersection to leave your car.

Kitchen Mesa is a prominent geological formation that offers extensive views of the red, sandstone desert.