New Mexico Slot Canyons
Canyoneering,
climbing, hiking and Special Canyons
NEVER ENTER
A SLOT CANYON WHEN HEAVY RAIN IS IN THE FORECAST
see also: http://www.dougscottart.com/hobbies/waterfalls.htm …for New Mexico Waterfalls
…for info on Doug Scott Outdoor Books
see: http://www.dougscottart.com/Books.htm
And anothercanyoneering website: http://canyoneeringnm.org/ by Daniel
Creveling
…a 400’ deep section of Laguna Canyon Slot in
Chama Canyon Wilderness
Each
canyon is listed by name with its location letter & number below this map.
NEVER ENTER A
SLOT CANYON WHEN HEAVY RAIN IS IN THE FORECAST…!!!
Click on the canyons below for photos, topo maps and
text information
…the pages that are not linked yet, are
not finished yet…
please be patient with us
…and only click on the pages that are
underlined…and…ah…er…even then… this site is brand-spank’n new…maybe nuth’n is
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Not all of these canyons are slot
canyons, some are box canyons...
1.
A-6 Cañones Box
2.
A-7 Brazos Box
3.
A-7 Toltec
Gorge ACA Canyon
Rating 2
4.
A-7 Beaver
Creek Box ACA Canyon
Rating 1
5.
A-8 Bear Canyon ACA Canyon Rating 1
6.
B-5 Gallina
Canyon This is the
mother canyon who’s tributaries show as the next ten listings below this line
7.
B-5 Little
Deadman Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 2 & 3
8.
B-5 Middle
Deadman Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 2 & 3
9.
B-5 Deadman
Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 2 & 3
10.
B-5 Big Canyon ACA Canyon Rating 2 & 3
11.
B-5 Alabaster Canyon ACA Canyon Rating 2 & 3
12.
B-6 Cañon
de la Alameda “box canyon”
13.
B-6 Middle Canyon ACA Canyon Rating 3
14.
B-6 Little Canyon ACA Canyon Rating 2 & 3
15.
B-6 Gallegos Canyon ACA Canyon Rating 2 & 3
16.
B-6
Little
Gallegos Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 3
17.
B-6 Laguna
Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 3
18.
B-6 Little Laguna Canyon yet to be descended or documented
19.
B-6 Golondrina
Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 2
20.
B-6 Huckaby
Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 3
21.
B-6 Chavez
Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 2
22.
B-6 Chavez
Nicho ACA Canyon
Rating 1
23.
B-6 Echo-north
Canyon * ACA Canyon
Rating 1
24.
B-6 Echo-north
Slot Canyon * ACA Canyon
Rating 2
25.
B-6 Box Canyon at
Ghost Ranch ACA Canyon
Rating 1
26.
B-6 Vertedero
Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 2 & 3
27.
B-7 Potrero
Gorge ACA Canyon
Rating 2
28.
B-7 Cañada del
Borracho ACA Canyon
Rating 2
29.
B-9 El Salto
Falls ACA Canyon
Rating 2 & 3
30.
C-5 Cañon
de Coloures * ACA Canyon
Rating 2 & 3
31.
C-5 Cougar Canyon
* ACA Canyon Rating 3
32.
C-6 Cañada de
Presa ACA Canyon
Rating 2 & 3
33.
C-6 Ojitos Canyon yet to be descended or documented
34.
C-6 Potrero Slot Canyon ACA Canyon Rating ? ? ?
35.
C-6 Wedding
Cake Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 3
36.
C-6 Poleo Canyon ACA Canyon Rating 2 & 3
37.
C-6 un-named
slot canyon across the street from Echo Amphitheater ACA Canyon Rating 2 & 3
38.
C-6 Rim Canyon ACA Canyon Rating 2
39.
C-6 Talus
Canyon * ACA Canyon
Rating 2 & 3
40.
C-6
Bull Canyon ACA Canyon Rating 3
41.
C-6 Rio
Puerco Gorge ACA Canyon
Rating 2 & 3
42.
C-6 Cuesta
Navajo Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 3
43.
C-6 Pinabetoso
Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 3
44.
C-7 Cañon
Ventana del Cielo ACA Canyon
Rating 3
45.
C-7 Red Wash ACA Canyon Rating 2
46.
C-7 Plaza
Blanca Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 2
47.
C-8 Agua Caliente
Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 2
48.
C-8 Angostura
Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 2
49.
D-5 San Ysidro
Slot Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 1
50.
D-6 East Fork
Jemez Gorge ACA Canyon
Rating 2
51.
D-6 Battleship
Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 1
52.
D-6 Rio
Guadalupe Box ACA Canyon
Rating 2
53.
D-6 Cochiti
Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 2
54.
D-7 Cuesta
Blanca Canyon, Chino Canyon & Cañon Caja ACA Canyon Rating 2 & 3
55.
D-11 Beaver Canyon ACA Canyon Rating 2
56.
E-5 Cañon
Guadalupe ACA Canyon
Rating 1
57.
E-5 Cañon Salado ACA Canyon Rating 2
58.
E-5 Cañon Tapia ACA Canyon Rating 1 with 2 accessible
59.
E-5 Cañon Canoa ACA Canyon Rating 2
60.
E-5 Cañon del
Puente ACA Canyon
Rating 2
61.
E-5 Cañada Ancha
Slot ACA Canyon
Rating 2
62.
E-6 Scimitar
Slot Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 4
63.
E-6 Colle Box
(slot) Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 2
64.
E-6 Tent Rocks
Slot Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 1
65.
E-6 Walatowa
Slot Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 2 & 3
66.
E-6 Travertine
Maze and Gypsum Slot Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 2
67.
F-5 Canada de la
Apaches ACA Canyon
Rating 2
68.
F-2 Red Wall Canyon ACA Canyon Rating 1
69.
F-2 Bluewater
Box Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 1
70.
F-2 El Morro Box Canyon …see: http://www.sangres.com/newmexico/national-parks/elmorro.htm#.VJXwKV4AA ACA Canyon Rating 1
71.
F-7 La Cueva
Canyon Narrows ACA Canyon
Rating 2
72.
G-4 Painted
Arch Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 3
73.
I-6 Arroyo del Tajo ACA Canyon Rating 1
74.
J-1 Frisco Box ACA Canyon Rating 2
75.
J-4 North Fork
Potato Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 3
76.
K-4 Garcia Falls
Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 2
77.
L-1 Sipes
Canyon Slot ACA Canyon
Rating 2
78.
L-1 Mule Creek Slot
Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 2
79.
L-2 Spruce Creek
Slot Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 2
80.
L-2 West Fork
Mogollon Slot Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 3
81.
L-2 Middle
Fork Rain Creek Gorge ACA Canyon
Rating 3
82.
L-3 Little
Bear Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 1
83.
M-1 Rough
Canyon Slot ACA Canyon
Rating 2
84.
M-4 Percha
Narrows and Wicks Gulch Slot ACA Canyon
Rating 2
85.
M-3 Sapillo Box
and Cow Creek Slot Canyon & waterfalls
ACA Canyon Rating 2 Cow Cr Slot ACA Canyon Rating 3
86.
M-2 Hell’s
Half Acre ....has a dozen or more individual slot canyons, several are over
a mile long and up to 200’ deep ACA Canyon
Rating 2
87.
M-3 Skates Canyon ACA Canyon Rating 2 & 3
88.
M-3 Purgatory
Chasm ACA Canyon
Rating 1
89.
M-3 Lake
Roberts Slot Canyons unknown number of canyons - ACA Canyon Rating 1, 2 & 3
90.
M-4 Circle Seven
Slot Canyon ACA Canyon
Rating 1
91.
N-5 Broad Canyon …see: http://southernnewmexicoexplorer.blogspot.com/2012/04/broad-canyon.html ACA Canyon Rating 1
…and:
http://southernnewmexicoexplorer.blogspot.com/2012/04/more-broad-canyon-photos.html
92.
N-5 Slot Canyon at Broad Canyon …see: http://southernnewmexicoexplorer.blogspot.com/2013/11/slot-canyon-broad-canyon-ranch-state.html
93.
N-5 Twin Slot Canyons – Robledo Mtns …see: http://southernnewmexicoexplorer.blogspot.com/2014/01/robledo-mountains-twin-slot-canyons.html
94.
N-5 Spring Canyon – Robledo Mtns …see: http://southernnewmexicoexplorer.blogspot.com/2013/09/spring-canyon-robledo-mountains.html
95.
O-5 Valles
Canyon …see: http://southernnewmexicoexplorer.blogspot.com/2012/02/valles-canyon-sierra-de-las-uvas.html
96.
O-6 Long
Canyon …see: http://southernnewmexicoexplorer.blogspot.com/2011/12/slot-canyons.html
97.
O-6 Upper
Long Canyon …see: http://southernnewmexicoexplorer.blogspot.com/2014/09/upper-long-canyon-organ-mountains.html
* denotes a privately used name Large map of slot canyons near and within
Chama Canyon Wilderness
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