Maps for sections in Montana, Wyoming and Colorado are completed. We at New Mexico Mountain Bike Adventures have been fortunate to help chart the route through our home state, getting the opportunity to traverse some fantastic country and do some legwork for guided trips we will offer along the route. The Great Divide Route leaves Colorado's Rio Grande' National Forest and enters New Mexico in the San Juan Mts. where it heads south through the Carson National Forest . The village of Abiquiu, made famous in paintings by Georgia O'Keefe, is an important supply stop before entering the Santa Fe National Forest and climbing over the rugged Jemez Mountains to the town of Cuba. This ancient volcanic range is only a million years old and erosion hasn't had time to wear it down completely.
Nothing rides like volcanic ash and pumice.
This terrain does not turn to mud after a rain, instead it wicks the water down like some high tech fabric, making it possible to ride moments after a downpour. After the ride you just blow the ash off your bike. Mt. Taylor, another large volcano in the Cibola National Forest . Grants is the next supply stop, then into El Malpais National Monument in southwest New Mexico where some of the lava flows are less than 1000 years old. The Sawtooth Mts.