Chupaderos Spur

Total Miles
1.2

Elevation

2,172.91 ft

Duration

0.25 Hours

Technical Rating

2

Easy

Best Time

Spring, Winter, Fall

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Trail Overview

Chupaderos Spur is an easy road-width trail that starts off Chupaderos Road 446. It's a dead-end trail that doesn't really end at anything but could be fun for a beginner to explore the area since it's in an Archeological Historic Site. The entrance to the trail is not marked, but there is a sign on a tree at the entrance noting the Archeological Historic Site and that artifacts shouldn't be removed. The trail is really easy. It's very wide the whole way through really tall dispersed pine trees in a grassy forest. There are lots of sudden big dips into ravines that you need to watch out for, and ruts through the trail, but overall it's very easy and kind of sandy in spots. The end peters out near the end of the GPS track. It's a bit overgrown with grass the whole way, but it's still easy enough to follow the whole time.

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Chupaderos Spur
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Chupaderos Spur

Difficulty

This is an easy road-width trail with no obstacles.

Technical Rating

2

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Access Description

The OHV system north of the town of Los Alamos, New Mexico, is a completely unmarked and loosely maintained riding area made up of several intermediate single tracks connected by rocky and sandy jeep roads. Riding this area is essentially impossible without a GPS map, as the trails are very faint and unmarked, and will require extensive route finding. This area is best in fall and spring, as summer can be pretty hot here. The trails are a fun and unique mix of desert and pine forest with some intermediate challenges. Although there is no official staging area for these trails, there are a few hiking trailheads and dirt pull-offs along Rendija Road that can work as a staging area to ride these trails. From Rendija Road, take Maria's Canyon (FS 416), which has lots of deep ruts and rocks.

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