Slot Canyon Tent Rocks New Mexico. This 3 mile hike with minimal elevation gain lets you explore incredible desert hoodoos and beautiful slot canyons. While not the beautiful red rocks you get in antelope canyon still amazing against the blue sky.
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 trail is primarily used for hiking and is accessible year round. Tent rocks slot canyon trail closed is a 2 8 mile heavily trafficked out and back trail located near jemez springs new mexico that features beautiful wild flowers and is rated as moderate.
I arrived at about 7 15 on a sunday morning and there was plenty of parking.
The beginning of the hike. The trail is primarily used for hiking and is accessible year round. The pretty slot opens out quite suddenly after a quarter of a mile to a still narrow gorge that contains a few tall trees growing in the streambed after which the canyon ascends more steeply through another brief narrow part then climbs even more sharply to the top of the plateau where it splits into several paths that lead to viewpoints looking out over the tent rock formations down peralta canyon and across to the far away sangre de cristo and jemez mountains. This 3 mile hike with minimal elevation gain lets you explore incredible desert hoodoos and beautiful slot canyons.
