Mule Creek Canyon
ACA Canyon
Rating – 2C III
NEVER ENTER ANY
SLOT CANYON WHEN HEAVY RAIN IS IN THE FORECAST…!!!
Canyon
beta facts:
name- Mule Creek Canyon
length of slot canyon- 1.7 miles
elevation- 4730’at the top down to 4444’at the bottom
GPS coordinates- ±33°11.574’N 108°57.913’W at the top and ±33°11.762’N 108°58.063’W at the lower end
flow- perennial
season to visit- October thru April… NEVER ENTER ANY SLOT CANYON WHEN
HEAVY RAIN IS IN THE FORECAST…!!!
accommodations- NONE
ownership- Gila National Forest
access- is from above on Harden Cieniga Road… see the map below
nearest town- Mule Creek is a few miles southeast
of here
fun fact- this is a beautiful place, with extreme flash-flood danger…!!!
essay bro
Go east of Mule Creek, New Mexico on State
Hwy for 3 miles. Turn north on Harden Cieniga Road for 6 miles to Harden Cieniga. Work your way east on a 4WD
road for 3 miles to near Jeep Tank up Antelope Creek. Take a jeep road another 1/3 mile up to an
open pass to the northeast. Park at that pass. It
is marked with * on
the map below. Travel the 1.7 mile long Mule Creek Slot
Canyon going upstream or downstream. It
is pass-able both directions. The
yellow lines on the map below show access routes.
Altho you may wish to continue on downstream
another mile and a quarter to the San Francisco River... before returning to
your wheels.
Enhanced USGS topo map
The Red Lines depict
sections of “slot canyons”
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