Piedra Marcadas Trail

Petroglyph National Monument, Albuquerque, NM

On February 20, 2023 Kim and I also walked the Piedra Marcadas (North Rim and main) trail in Petroglyph National Monument just outside Albuquerque. The North Rim trail is basically a walk through a mesa, but once your drop down onto the main trail the ridge is covered with numerous petroglyphs. The trail starts behind a gas station (or was it a Wallgreens) so I did not have high hopes, but both parts of the trail were interesting, with the petroglyphs being especially neat.

Walk-Specific Map

Elevation Profile

Images

GPX Download

A sanitized GPX file of our hike is here.

Summary Information

NUM trackID Primary Description Distance CumDist DeltaElev
1 PDMC01 Piedras Marcadas Hike Parking lot to Split in loop trail 0.06 0.06 19
2 PDMC02 Piedras Marcadas Hike Split in loop trail to Split to Deadend 0.65 0.71 82
3 PDMC09 Piedras Marcadas Hike to Split to Deadend 0.13 0.85 -21
4 PDMC09 Piedras Marcadas Hike Split to Deadend to 0.13 0.98 21
5 PDMC03 Piedras Marcadas Hike Split to Deadend to Neighborhood access trail 0.39 1.37 5
6 PDMC04 Piedras Marcadas Hike Neighborhood access trail to Split in loop trail 1.51 2.88 -87
7 PDMC01 Piedras Marcadas Hike Split in loop trail to Parking lot 0.06 2.94 -19