Albuquerque: North Apache Kid Trail
Seeking solitude? Test your compass skills as you venture 9.4 miles into a canyon of recovering burn zones and trickling springs in the San Mateo Mountains.
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Trail Facts
- Distance: 7.6
Waypoints
APC001
Location: 33.7218208312988, -107.477203369141
Head E on old, fading trail; bring compass and keep eyes open for old trail ruts
APC002
Location: 33.7204780578613, -107.464378356934
Bear SE as braided trail continues up Water Canyon
APC003
Location: 33.715705871582, -107.457763671875
STrail bends S and canyon walls narrow
APC004
Location: 33.7109413146973, -107.454200744629
From this point, creek flow becomes intermittent
APC005
Location: 33.7069396972656, -107.448402404785
Pass small spring with old galvanized water tanks and weathered signpost. Good primitive campsite in open spot
APC006
Location: 33.6984405517578, -107.441398620605
Stay straight @ Y on Trail #43
APC007
Location: 33.6928596496582, -107.439498901367
Trail meanders 40 ft. above murky brown Water Canyon Creek (seasonal)
APC008
Location: 33.6840782165527, -107.436401367188
Trail becomes faint again in almost-bare burn zone (Coffee Pot wildfire of ’94); follow along creek
APC009
Location: 33.6803703308106, -107.440498352051
Limbs blanket charred ground; stay SW
APC010
Location: 33.6790618896484, -107.442100524902
Vista: Canyon walls peppered with germinating trees; greens and browns are slowly overtaking the blacks leftover from the forest fire. Return to trailhead, or continue to Blue Mountain and Apache Kid gravesite on an overnight trip
