Slot Canyon Tent Rocks New Mexico. This is an extremely popular national monument with loads of visitors coming out on weekends from nearby santa fe to hike the fun trail that goes through a slot canyon and emerges on a plateau with a great view. Kasha katuwe tent rocks national monument is a small park between albuquerque and santa fe new mexico.
To our surprise the trail to the tent rocks overlook actually winds between these unique geological wonders. Tent rocks slot canyon and cave loop closed is a 3 1 mile heavily trafficked loop trail located near cochiti pueblo new mexico that features beautiful wild flowers and is rated as moderate. This is an extremely popular national monument with loads of visitors coming out on weekends from nearby santa fe to hike the fun trail that goes through a slot canyon and emerges on a plateau with a great view.
The soft pumice tent rocks are the remains of a once active volcano that was spewed lava over the area six to seven million years ago.
The cave loop slot canyon trailhead is about an hour from albuquerque and a little less from santa fe. Almost alone on a sunday morning we wandered along the slot canyon trail slowly stopping often to look up at the blue sky above us. If you do this hike you also go through a slot canyon and up onto the mesa leading to great views of the sangre de cristo and jemez mountains. This is an extremely popular national monument with loads of visitors coming out on weekends from nearby santa fe to hike the fun trail that goes through a slot canyon and emerges on a plateau with a great view.
