Santa Fe National Forest
Visitors to this Forest can visit one of many nearby Indian pueblos, Spanish missions, and Indian ruins or hike on the 1,000 miles of hiking trails.
Photo credit: Forest Service
Wilderness Areas/Wild & Scenic Rivers
Pecos Wilderness - With easy access from Santa Fe, Albuquerque and surrounding towns, most hikers come to Pecos Wilderness during the summer months to explore its extensive system of trails.
San Pedro Parks Wilderness - San Pedro Parks Wilderness is known for its high, moist, rolling mountaintops with numerous meadows and large grassy areas.
Chama River Canyon Wilderness - Chama River Canyon Wilderness varies in canyon elevations which provide a wide range of vegetation, from low-lying pinion-juniper woodland to ponderosa pine and fir.
Dome Wilderness - Dome Wilderness has been ravaged by wild fire with most of the wilderness burned in the 1990s and again in 2011 with the Las Conchas fire.
Rio Chama River - Rio Chama River offers an outstanding wild river backdrop for hikers, anglers, and boaters due to towering cliffs, heavily wooded side canyons, and historical sites.
Pecos River - Pecos River, famous in the folklore of the frontier, flows out of the Pecos Wilderness, through rugged granite canyons and waterfalls, and passes small, high-mountain meadows.
Jemez River (East Fork) - Jemez East Fork River originates in the Valles Caldera as a small meandering stream in a vast crater.
Invasive Species
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