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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Jemez Mountains - Forest Service Road 376 (South) Boondocking

[By Greg]  Last weekend we drove up to the Jemez mountains to check out campgrounds. We had a great time looking at Jemez Falls CG, Redondo CG, San Antonio CG (some electric/water hookups), Fenton Lake CG (some electric sites).  They all look great this year with all the rain in New Mexico.

We turned south (off hwy 126 about 4 miles west from  La Cueva) onto FS 376. There were hundreds of boondockers on the east side of the road for a long ways.







There was a trail motor bike rally of some sort going on and a lot of the RV campers were related to that.

It looks like an excellent place to boondock in the warm months.

Here is a coordinate of just one of the areas where we saw RVs, but they were all along the east side of the road: 35.866395, -106.695532.

We saw a few boondockers on the north side along FS 144 also, but not as many.

The wonderful San Antonio Hot Springs are along the north side of FS 376 [GPS: 35.939776, -106.643482].

I've heard you can take FS 144 and then climb/hike down a cliffyish area to FS 376 and then up to the hot springs in order to avoid the really bad road condition of FS 376.  (You need a high clearance 4x4 to get to the hot spring on FS 376.)  I plan to explore this possibility in the near future. (See future post.)

I had my Mom and Dad in the back with us and everyone started freaking out when the FS 144 started getting rough so I didn't get to explore as far as I wanted to determine if access to San Antonio Hot Springs is possible, as I had heard.  I will have to try again by myself.

Google Map Photos of San Antonio Hot Springs not correct - fix this.


4 comments:

  1. Great descriptions and directions. I think mom and I will head over into that area when we leave the Eagle Nest area. Thanks.

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  2. Enjoy the Jemez! Very beautiful and peaceful. Let us know when you are in the area. Maybe we can drive by and meet you. - Karen
    kkeetah@gmail.com

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