page_title: Rio Grande Trail
section_title: List of features
hierarchical_section_title: Rio Grande Trail / Proposed trail corridor / List of features
caption_attribution_description: English: The Rio Grande River after a heavy rain, at the end of the Blue Dot trail from the White Rock Overlook. Raccoon tracks are visible in the right foregrond. This photo was taken on 20 August 2006.
context_page_description: The Rio Grande Trail is a proposed long distance trail along the Rio Grande in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The river extends over 1,800 total miles, some 700 miles of which pass through the heart of New Mexico. It is the state's primary drainage feature and most valuable natural and cultural resource. The river and its bosque provide a wide variety of recreation, including hunting and fishing, birdwatching, river rafting, hiking, biking, and horseback riding. The river also flows through or beside numerous spectacular and geologically interesting landforms, the result of extensive volcanism and erosion within the Rio Grande Rift. Although some trail advocates would like to see the trail extended the full distance through New Mexico, from the Colorado border to the United States–Mexico border, the portion proposed for initial development extends 300 miles, from Bernalillo south to Las Cruces.
context_section_description: Features of the proposed trail corridor are listed in order from north to south. Bridges across the Rio Grande (listed separately) are candidate locations for trailheads.
  Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
  Earthships
  Rio Grande Gorge
  Orilla Verde Recreation Area
  Embudo Station
  Lyden, New Mexico
  Ohkay Owingeh (formerly San Juan Pueblo)
  Española, New Mexico
  Old Spanish Trail (trade route)
  Santa Fe County, New Mexico
  Santa Clara Pueblo
  San Ildefonso Pueblo
  Pajarito Plateau
  White Rock Canyon
  Bandelier National Monument
  Caja del Rio
  Sandoval County, New Mexico
  Santo Domingo Pueblo
  Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument
  Cochiti Lake
  Cochiti Pueblo
  Bernalillo County, New Mexico
  San Felipe Pueblo
  Bernalillo
  Rio Rancho Bosque
  Paseo del Bosque Trail
  Albuquerque
  Isleta Pueblo
  Los Lunas
  Belen
  Bosque
  Bernardo
  Escondida
  Socorro County
  Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge
  San Lorenzo Canyon Recreation Area
  San Antonio
  Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
  Socorro
  Trinity (nuclear test)
  Sierra County
  Elephant Butte Lake
  Truth or Consequences
  Caballo Lake
  Derry and Arrey
  Salem
  Doña Ana County
  Hatch
  Rincon
  Radium Springs, New Mexico
  Fort Selden
  Jornada del Muerto
  Doña Ana, New Mexico
  Las Cruces, New Mexico
  Organ Mountains
  Mesilla Valley Bosque State Park
  Mesilla, New Mexico
  Mesquite, New Mexico
  Vado, New Mexico and La Mesa, New Mexico
  Berino, New Mexico
  Anthony, New Mexico
  Sunland Park, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas
  Potrillo volcanic field
  United States–Mexico border
caption: Blue Dot Trail, White Rock
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