Enchanted Circle

So this morning, my mom, dad, Cousteau and I headed out to do the Enchanted Circle route around Taos with a detour to Cimarron. The first part of our ride took us through Questa and Red River, over Bobcat Pass, through Eagle Nest (where you take a LFT to head east) then finally on to Cimarron. This is a mine tailings dumping area in the putting our "land of many uses" to good work. - owned by Chevron.

The second half was back from Cimarron, through Angel Fire and then up and over the Sangre de Cristo range back to Taos. The Enchanted Circle is literally a circle around the highest peak in the area, Wheeler Peak which tops out at13,161 feet above sea level.

Features along the way included tremendous views of Baldy Peak, the very scenic Palisades Cliffs and Eagle Nest Lake created by a dam on the Cimarron River in 1920. The terrain we saw included dense pine forest, shear rocky cliffs, and vast pastures.


For any of you who were in the boy scouts, we also saw / drove through Philmont Scout Ranch, which for many scouts is an epoch hiking and camping adventure up along Cimarron Range peaks and down next to the Cimarron River.